ant and the grasshopper, funny story about Demo. philosophy

[burniegoeasily]

I posted this in the offseason, I think it fits here better. enjoy.


> The Ant and the Grasshopper

>

> 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, CNN, NBC, 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.

>

> Tom Daschle , Dick Gephart, Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean 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 a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to

> pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.

> Hillary Clinton 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 OF THE STORY: Dont vote Dem.

>

[bugsNbows]

That is the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Right on Bernie!!!

[lamb1647]

Burnie,

That is precisely what BUGS me about the Dumbocrats!!

Bill

[Vapodog]

yup....that's about it.

[JagMagMan]

Could not possibly be true! Teddyboy Kennedy was not there, red faced shaking his head in dis-belief of the ant's audacity to try to do something for himself, on his own, in a Socialist Empire!