The Ant & The Grasshopper

I got this through an email the other day....and it was really a good one...

The Ant and the Grasshopper
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> There are two Versions - Read Both
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> TRADITIONAL VERSION:
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> The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
> house and laying up supplies for the winter.
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> The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and
> plays the summer away.
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> Come winter, the ant is warm & well fed. The grasshopper has no food or
> shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
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> MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself
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> MODERN VERSION:
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> The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long,building his
> house & laying up supplies for the winter..
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> The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and
> plays the summer away.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
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> How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor
> grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
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> Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody
> cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
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> Hillary Clinton 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.
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> The ant loses the case.
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> 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.
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> The ant has disappeared in the snow.
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> 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.
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> MORAL OF THE STORY:
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> Be very careful how you vote in 2008