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« on: October 15, 2008, 06:36:30 AM »

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Comment by NO-BAMBI
October 15th, 2008 at 4:42 am
This one is a little different — Two Different Versions! Two Different Morals!

OLD 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!
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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 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.

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 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.

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.

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
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NO OBAMA — NO OBAMA

COUNTRY FIRST — IN GOD WE TRUST

McCain/Palin 2008
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« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2008, 07:48:46 AM »


We need to fight harder for the ants.
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« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2008, 08:58:57 AM »

 

Well said and done, Slogger!!
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« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2008, 11:23:58 AM »

I think in the old days, the grasshopper was encouraged to join the military, the clergy, or do something to better him/her self.  I'm not sure what the grasshopper in encouraged to do today.

The pit of despair is only getting deeper and wider.  No matter how hard anyone shovels out the dirt, the pit gets deeper. 

There is no light entering the shaft.  There is no savior for these people, just a bigger supply of shovels.

I hope that some day, morning comes to a nation and helping hands are willing to give people a hand up, and not another shovel.


Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime...
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« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2008, 02:50:23 PM »



"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime..."

You can't force a man to fish (even for his own good.)  If he doesn't see the wisdom of learning to fish, and doesn't like to eat fish, he's not going to do it.

If the 40% of Americans who don't pay taxes are joined by 20%, or more, of those who did pay taxes . . . the burden will weigh heavily on the remaining 35%.

The remaining 35% will HUNKER DOWN.
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