[Rhodes22-list] cute story-hope it is not real

[Robert Dobson]

  This one is a little different. Two different versions, two different
        morals!
       
        OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in
        the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up
        supplies for the winter.
       
        The grasshopper thinks the ant is a
        fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
        Come winter, the ant is warm and well-fed.
       
        The grasshopper has no food or
        shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
       
        MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
       
       
       
        MODERN VERSION:
       
        The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
        long, building his house and laying up supplies for
        the winter.
       
        The grasshopper thinks the ant is a
        fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
       
        Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press
        conference and demands to know why the ant should be
        allowed to be warm and well-fed while others are cold and starving.
       
       
        CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up
        to20provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the
        ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
        America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
       
        How can this be, that in a country
        of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
       
       
        Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper,
        and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
       
        Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration
        in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group
        singing, 'We shall overcome.' Jesse then has the group kneel down to
        pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
       
       
        Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with
        Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of
        the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax
        hike on the ant=2 0to make him pay his fair share .
       
        Finally, President Obama approves the EEOC draft from
        the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act, retroactive
        to the beginning of the summer.
       
        The ant is fined for failing to hire
        a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay
        his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
       
       
        Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in
        a defamation suit against the ant, and
        the case is tried before a panel of federal judges
        that Bill Clinton appointed, when he was
        in office, from a list o f single-parent welfare
        recipients.
      
        The ant loses the case.
       
        The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up
        the last bits of the ant's food while the government
    & nbsp;   house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles
        around him because he doesn't maintain it.
       
        The ant has disappeared in the snow.
       
        The grasshopper is found dead in a
        drug related incident
        and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang
        of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
       
       
        MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008!