OT: The ant and the grasshopper

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From an American perspective, but I'm sure you'll get the gist..

The Ant and the Grasshopper~OLD AND NEW VERSION

~THE 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 he's 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.

~THE 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 he's 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, 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.

Tom Daschle & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Peter Jennings 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 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 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.

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