No grasshoppers allowed!

The sad thing is that it's the truth!....Rooster

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> THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

> CLASSIC 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.

> MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for
> yourself!

> 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.

> Al Gore exclaims in an interview with Peter
> Jennings
> that the ant has gotten rich off the back of
> the
> grasshopper, and calls 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.

> Do I have a witness? Can I hear an amen from
> somebody?