From: "§§§Raven§§§" "
Subject: The Ant & Grasshopper 2003
Date: Sunday, October 12, 2003 8:42 AM


CLASSIC 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, NBC, ABC, and CNN 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 &Walter Mondale 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 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 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: Vote Republican



--

Christopher A. Young
Do good work.
It's longer in the short run
but shorter in the long run.
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"fsteddie" wrote in message
...
so I put away 6 cord of firewood in april,worked my ass off,,

Today my sloth neighbor asked me if he could "borrow" some
of my firewood this winter, because he was to busey to get any of his own.
He watched me pile and stack this wood while he drank beer
In june he told me his company gave him a $15,000.00 bonus.

I TOLD HIM TO **** OFF
am I a bad person?