Modern Day Ant and Grasshopper story

[Tiger in Spain 0]

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, ABC, and CNN show up with Jesse Jackson 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 sings "It's Not Easy Being Green."

John Kerry, Richard Gephardt, and Tom Daschle exclaimed in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant had gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and called 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.

The ACLU represents the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Clinton appointed.

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: Vote Republican

[CCTAU 3,536]

Sounds to me like you are discriminating against spiders! :bat:

[AURainman 6]

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Yup, sounds about right.

[Argo 8]

Where's all the Dem. responses?

[TitanTiger 21,241]

They're AWOL.