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Moral from Florida


MODERN VERSION OF THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER STORY 

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 (FOX declined) 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 th e 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. Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid and Dick Durbin say 
justice has been served.

 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


Posted to Political by @ 9:38 pm EDT

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