ant and grasshopper

[el dub]

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> THE NEW ANT and the Grasshopper, Two Versions
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> The ANT
> AND THE
> GRASSHOPPER
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> This one is a little different....
> Two Different Versions ...
> Two Different Morals
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>  OLD VERSION
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> The ant works
> hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
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> The grasshopper
> thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
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> Come winter, the ant is warm
> and well fed.
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> The grasshopper has
> no food or shelter, so he
> dies out in the cold.
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> MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:
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> Be responsible for yourself!
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> MODERN
> VERSION
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> The ant works hard
> in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house
> and laying up supplies for the winter.
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> The grasshopper thinks the ant
> is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
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> 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..
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> 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.
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> How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper
> is allowed to suffer so?
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> Kermit the Frog appears
> on Oprah
> with the grasshopper
> and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not EasyBeing Green ...'
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> Occupy the Anthill stages
> a demonstration in front of the ant's
> house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, We shall overcome.
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> Then Rev Al Sharpton's assistant
> has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper
> while he damns the ants. The Reverend Al can not attend as he has contractual commitments to appear on his MSNBC show for which he is paid over two million dollars a year to complain that rich people do not care.
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> President Obama condemns the ant
> and blames
> President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the
> Pope
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> plight..
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> Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid
> exclaim in an interview on The View
> 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.
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> 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 Green Czar
> and given to the grasshopper .
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> The story ends as we see the grasshopper
> and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house,
> crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
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> The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
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> 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 ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.
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> The entire Nation collapses
> bringing the rest
> of the free world with it.
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> MORAL OF THE STORY:
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> Be careful how you vote in 2016.
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> I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant, not a grasshopper !
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> Make sure that you pass
> this on to other ants .
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> Don't bother sending
> it on to any grasshoppers
> because they wouldn't
> understand it, anyway!

[ITSA426]

You forgot to mention the ant got his wealth by filing bankruptcy on the taxpayers and is on his third wife.

[el dub]

 

[ITSA426]

Opinion of rich white guys in suits?  Once a leader of a country that no longer exists.  His leadership was tainted with charges of corruption.  Once forced to step down over "funding irregularities". Effectively impeached by the Senate of the Czech Republic after being charged with high treason.  Claims of several extramarital affairs. There's a guy you want to go to for advice about leading a republic.  Another right wing whackadoodle. 

El dub I enjoy most of your postings but I think we should keep politics out of this thread and go someplace where facts aren't important.  Maybe Fox News?

[el dub]

  You might be right. These are just emails I get . some are funny some not.

[ITSA426]

Thanks, I appreciate that.

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