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I hope you enjoy this one guys, after I read it I thought to myself... This is so true !! lol
>THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
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>THE ORIGINAL VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all
>summer long building his house and laying in supplies for the winter.
>The grasshopper thinks he is a fool, and laughs, 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 in the cold.
>
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>THE MODERN VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all
>summer long building his house and laying in supplies for the
>winter. The grasshopper thinks he is a fool, and laughs, 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 everyone
>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 for the grasshopper's sake.
>
>Al Gore exclaims, in an interview with Peter Jennings, that the ant
>has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper and calls for an
>immediate tax hike on the ant to make him "pay his fair share".
>
>The EEOC drafts the "Economic Equality and Anti-Grasshopper Act",
>retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for
>failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs. Having nothing
>left to pay his retroactive taxes, the ant's home is confiscated by the
>government.
>
>Hillary Clinton gets her law firm to represent the grasshopper in a
>defamation suit against the ant. The case is tried before a panel of
>Federal judges that Bill Clinton has 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 that he's in, crumbles
>around him because he doesn't bother to maintain it. The ant has
>disappeared in the snow.
>
>Two weeks later, the grasshopper is found dead in a drug related
>incident and the house, now a crack and whore house, is taken over by a
>gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
>
>THE END . . . |
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