js292
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Interesting read I got this morning;
*The Ant and the Grasshopper...A MUST READ*
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!
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*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 to provide 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 to 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.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the
last bits of the ant's food while the government 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!!
*The Ant and the Grasshopper...A MUST READ*
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 to provide 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 to 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.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the
last bits of the ant's food while the government 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!!
