Fable: New vs. Old ...

[Blue Rat]

The Ant and the Grasshopper


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, 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.

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.

[92se-r]

You forgot to add that Kanye West goes on tv to tell the world that George Bush hates grasshoppers.

[Evil Chocula]

This would make more sense if the ant was the CEO of a major corporation, paid himself 3,000,000 per year and still got a better tax rate than the grasshopper.

That's the tax hike the democrats are calling for. I can only assume you fall into that tax bracket, and are desperate to hold onto your preferential tax status.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[Blue Rat]

Originally Posted by Evil Chocula

This would make more sense if the ant was the CEO of a major corporation, paid himself 3,000,000 per year and still got a better tax rate than the grasshopper.

That's the tax hike the democrats are calling for. I can only assume you fall into that tax bracket, and are desperate to hold onto your preferential tax status.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

I wish I'd made the career choice to be the CEO of a major corporation and able to pay myself 3 milliion a year.

But I'm proud to say that my career choice has been of service, that's 26 years of honorable military service. Which is probably something you're unable to comprehend.

Since we're making assumptions ... I can only assume that you're the offspring of a welfare/"have as many children as possible" family and your expection is that the hard working American has to pay for your personal laziness.

[Evil Chocula]

Originally Posted by Blue Rat

I wish I'd made the career choice to be the CEO of a major corporation and able to pay myself 3 milliion a year.

But I'm proud to say that my career choice has been of service, that's 26 years of honorable military service. Which is probably something you're unable to comprehend.

Since we're making assumptions ... I can only assume that you're the offspring of a welfare/"have as many children as possible" family and your expection is that the hard working American has to pay for your personal laziness.

I'm actually an 8 year veteran of the Marine Corps, come from a family of firefighter and cops and am a self made, self educated financial professional.

Anyways, if you're a 26 year veteran(which I don't doubt), that would place you sqaurely in the middle class (like me), and also sqaurely in line with right wing policies that favor the rich and hurt the middle class. Thats all.

[Tedroy]

No politics in here please!

[Evil Chocula]

Originally Posted by Tedroy

No politics in here please!

I didn't start it! But...

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[OMR]

Now, why do you think I call you all grasshoppers???

[Blue Rat]

Originally Posted by OMR

Now, why do you think I call you all grasshoppers???

Oh, I know that one ...


Because we like to hop?

Originally Posted by Evil Chocula

I'm actually an 8 year veteran of the Marine Corps, come from a family of firefighter and cops and am a self made, self educated financial professional.

Anyways, if you're a 26 year veteran(which I don't doubt), that would place you sqaurely in the middle class (like me), and also sqaurely in line with right wing policies that favor the rich and hurt the middle class. Thats all.

Ooh Rah Marine!!