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The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER the new & the old
« on: October 29, 2011, 09:33:20 PM »
The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER 

This one is a little different ....

Two Different Versions  ...
 
Two  Different Morals

OLD VERSION

The antworks 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 grasshopperhas 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 grasshopperthinks 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 SEIU group singing,  We  shall overcome.

Then Rev.  Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's  sake, while he damns the ants.


President Obama
condemns the ant and blames President Bush 43, President  Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid
exclaim in an interview with
Larry Kingthat the ant has gotten rich off the back ofthe grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the antto 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 topay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the GovernmentGreen Czar and givento thegrasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant'sfood while the government house he isin,
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 hasdisappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is founddead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, 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.



pig

PSA 101:7 No one who practices deceit will dwell in my house; no one who
speaks falsely will stand in my presence.

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Re: The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER the new & the old
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2011, 08:30:08 AM »
Haha ... Atlas Shrugged, in Bug's Life style ... who is John Galt ..?
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Re: The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER the new & the old
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2011, 10:36:54 AM »
I would like to vote for the "smart" party.....
Where are they?
Can we just get someone in that is smart?
Seems only idiots want to be President these days.  Maybe we should just draft someone smart.
Can someone just tell these guys that we are BROKE.
Wait a minute Ron Paul keeps saying that....
 
quote author=whitey link=topic=6799.msg94842#msg94842 date=1319985008]
Haha ... Atlas Shrugged, in Bug's Life style ... who is John Galt ..?

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Re: The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER the new & the old
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Re: The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER the new & the old
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2011, 11:03:01 AM »
Do well in school.

 

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