THE HOT JOINTS » ant and grasshopper http://www.thehotjoints.com Breaking News and Opinion Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:14:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Election 2008: The Ant & The Grasshopper http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/10/29/election-2008-the-ant-the-grasshopper/ http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/10/29/election-2008-the-ant-the-grasshopper/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:20:44 +0000 Chris Jones http://www.thehotjoints.com/?p=5228 A fellow blogger emailed me this today:

The Ant & The Grasshopper

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,  President Obama approves the EEOC draft from 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   when he was in office.
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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