Thursday, July 29, 2010

The ant and the grasshopper...

The ant works hard
in the withering heat and the rain 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
allowed to be warm and well fed while he is 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
...'

ACORN
stages
a demonstration in front of the
ant's
house where the news stations film the group singing,
“We shall overcome.”

Then
Rev. Jeremiah Wright
has the group kneel down to pray for thegrasshopper's
sake.

President Obama
condems the ant
and blames


President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the
Pope

for the
grasshopper's
plight.


Nancy Pelosi & 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 &
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 Green
Czar
and given to the grasshopper
.

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.

The
ant has
disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

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.


The entire
Nation collapses
bringing the rest

of the free world with it.



MORAL OF THE STORY:



Be careful how you vote in 2010.


I’ve sent this to you because I believe that you are an
ant

not a
grasshopper
!

Make sure that you pass
this on to other
ants
.

Don’t bother sending
it on to any
grasshoppers
because they wouldn’t understand it, anyway.

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