(Be sure to read both. )

OLD VERSION:

The ant works hard in the sweltering 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 sweltering 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.
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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.

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 Clinton 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: Be sure to vote in 2010.

"Andy" wrote in :

MORAL: Be sure to vote in 2010.


Don't blame me. I voted for Ron Paul....


--
Larry