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Subject: Fw: The Ant and The Grasshopper
Subject: The Ant and The
Grasshopper
The
ANT
AND
THE
GRASSHOPPER
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 OLD STORY:
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 the ant 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 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..'
ACORN stages a
demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news
stations film the group singing, We
shall overcome.
Then Rev.
Jeremiah Wright
has the group kneel down
to pray for the grasshopper's sake.
President
Obama condemns
the ant
and
blames President
Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and
the Pope for
the grasshopper's plight.
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 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 Green Czar 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 and ramshackle, the once prosperous and
peaceful, neighborhood.
The
entire Nation collapses bringing the
rest
of the free world with
it.
MORAL
OF THE STORY:
Be
careful how you vote in 2012
I've
sent this to you because
I
believe that you are an ant!
You
may wish to pass this on to other ants, but
don't bother sending it on to
any grasshopper's because
they wouldn't understand
it, anyway.
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Subject: Fw: The Ant and The Grasshopper
Subject: The Ant and The
Grasshopper
The
ANT
AND
THE
GRASSHOPPER
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 OLD STORY:
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 the ant 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 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..'
ACORN stages a
demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news
stations film the group singing, We
shall overcome.
Then Rev.
Jeremiah Wright
has the group kneel down
to pray for the grasshopper's sake.
President
Obama condemns
the ant
and
blames President
Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and
the Pope for
the grasshopper's plight.
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 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 Green Czar 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 and ramshackle, the once prosperous and
peaceful, neighborhood.
The
entire Nation collapses bringing the
rest
of the free world with
it.
MORAL
OF THE STORY:
Be
careful how you vote in 2012
I've
sent this to you because
I
believe that you are an ant!
You
may wish to pass this on to other ants, but
don't bother sending it on to
any grasshopper's because
they wouldn't understand
it, anyway.
=
