The Ant and the Grasshopper/Updated Version

[Moore Beagles]

ORIGINAL 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. 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 STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
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>>MODERN 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.
>>
>>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 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.
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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 Easy Being Green."
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>>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.
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>>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 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.
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>>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.
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>>The ant loses the case.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote.

[coolbrze]

Ain't that the truth

[tinymwoods]

makes you think....