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Be responsible for yourself!
*MODERN VERSION*
The*ant*works hard in the withering heat and the rain 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 theant*should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.*
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN,*and*ABC*show up to provide pictures of the shivering*grasshoppernext 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 thegrasshopper*and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being*Green.'*
Acorn*stages a demonstration in front of theant's*house where the news stations film the group singing,*'We shall overcome.'*Rev. Jeremiah Wright*then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the*grasshopper's*sake.*
President Obama*condemns the*ant*and blamesPresident Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope*for the*grasshopper'splight.*
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid*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*antto make him pay his fair share.*
Finally, the*EEOC*drafts 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*GreenCzar*and given to the*grasshopper.*
The story ends as we see the*grasshopper*and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the*ant's*food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the*ant's*old house, crumbles around them because the*grasshopper*doesn't maintain it.*
The*ant*has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.*
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 ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.*
The entire*Nation*collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
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MORAL OF THE STORY:
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Be careful how you vote in 2010.
Be responsible for yourself!
*MODERN VERSION*
The*ant*works hard in the withering heat and the rain 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 theant*should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.*
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN,*and*ABC*show up to provide pictures of the shivering*grasshoppernext 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 thegrasshopper*and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being*Green.'*
Acorn*stages a demonstration in front of theant's*house where the news stations film the group singing,*'We shall overcome.'*Rev. Jeremiah Wright*then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the*grasshopper's*sake.*
President Obama*condemns the*ant*and blamesPresident Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope*for the*grasshopper'splight.*
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid*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*antto make him pay his fair share.*
Finally, the*EEOC*drafts 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*GreenCzar*and given to the*grasshopper.*
The story ends as we see the*grasshopper*and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the*ant's*food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the*ant's*old house, crumbles around them because the*grasshopper*doesn't maintain it.*
The*ant*has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.*
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 ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.*
The entire*Nation*collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
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MORAL OF THE STORY:
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Be careful how you vote in 2010.
