TRADITIONAL 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 the ant is 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 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 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. 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. Nancy Peloski, John Kerry & Harry
Reid 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. 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 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: Be careful how you vote in 2008.
Conservative Libertarian Outpost 
November 12, 2007 at 22:26
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November 21, 2007 at 18:11
The Ant and
> Grasshopper — The True Story
>
>
> The ant works hard in the withering
> heat all summer long, building his house, laying up supplies for the
> winter.
>
> The grasshopper takes a job at Wal-mart.
>
> Come winter,
> the ant finds he has more supplies than he and his family needs, so he > invests
> the surplus in a small business. Due to hard work and shrewd dealing,
> the ant’s company grows into a profitable business.
>
>
> The grasshopper continues to turn in ten hours a day at
> Wal-mart.
>
> After thirty years of comfortable middle class existence, the
> ant sells the company to a large conglomerate, and retires.
>
> The
> conglomerate immediately fires all the ant’s employees and outsources > their
> jobs to India.
>
> The ant’s former employees join the grasshopper
> at Wal-mart.
>
> With the added revenue from outsourcing and downsizing the
> ant’s company, the conglomerate is able to purchase even more > politicians who
> will work hard against peace, unions, the environment, the poor, the > middle
> class, and anything that might inhibit the corporate bottom line.
>
> The
> grasshopper and the ant’s former employees demand that Wal-mart pay them > for
> overtime but are told they are exempt — because they are “managers.”
> The case makes it to the Supreme Court, where Reagan and Bush appointees > rule
> in favor of Wal-mart, admonishing the plaintiffs to “go home and feel > lucky to
> even have jobs, what with all the outsourcing going on these
> days.”
>
>
> The conglomerate also buys CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and many radio stations
> and news periodicals to keep the ants and grasshoppers from knowing how
> dramatically the deck has been stacked against them.
>
> And with
> demagogic politicians and the media in its pocket, the conglomerate > finds it
> very easy to keep the ants and grasshoppers from uniting to demand > justice by
> pitting them against each other with stories of lazy, irresponsible
> grasshoppers living off of industrious, sober-minded ants.
>
> The
> moral: Think critically — and be very careful how you vote in 2008.
>
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