Ant and Grasshopper


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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 he's 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 he's 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, ABC and CNN 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.

Tom Daschle & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with

Peter Jennings 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 and

Anti-Grasshopper Act," retroactive to the beginning of

the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire an

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 appointed from a list of 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 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: Vote Republican

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Re: Ant and Grasshopper

Good story. This adaptation of The Ant and the Grasshopper was done by a conservative talk radio host, Jim Quinn, from Pittsburgh. If you've never heard his show, you are missing out big time!! He's syndicated on several PA, WV and OH stations and is on XM 165 6:00 - 9:00 AM weekdays. Here's his website:

The Warroom.com

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