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It aint easy being green.

wade

wade

Save The Humans
Here Is A Real American Tragedy: Ant vs. The Grasshopper


This one is a little different. Two Different Versions! Two Different Morals! ( Be sure to read both. )


OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the sweltering 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 sweltering 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.'

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 & 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 in 2010!!
 
I thought the moral of the story of the modern version was that this country seems to be full of grasshoppers and they are destroying the society of all the ants.
 
I think I see what you're saying here, good point. I'm going to make sure I vote for the spider-control candidate in 2012.
 
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Grasshoppers don't do drugs, and spiders keep the blood sucking mosquitoes from nagging me in the comfort of my own home. Sure I can slap the mosquito myself, but one will always take it's place circling me in my sleep with that incessant buzzing and biting. The ants are always the first to the scene of a pile of abandoned sugar, so if they get cold because they consumed it too fast... oh well.
 
Whats the point of this?

I get enough of these types of stupid things forwarded to me by relatives. i delete them immediately.
 
Stregone said:
I get enough of these types of stupid things forwarded to me by relatives. i delete them immediately.
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I'm with you! Anything in my inbox that says FWD gets FWD-ed to my deleted folder. My mom was upset when I told her that. She said "But I thought you might like that!".
Yeah she was thinking of me...and about 25 other people on her forward list...as she idly clicked on send to all.
 
wade said:
Here Is A Real American Tragedy: Ant vs. The Grasshopper


This one is a little different. Two Different Versions! Two Different Morals! ( Be sure to read both. )


OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the sweltering 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!
-------------------------------------------



MODERN VERSION:


The ant works hard in the sweltering 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.'

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 & 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, once focused on himself and his own ambitions, has now succumb to his own frustrations and has now spent more energy on the problem then the solution.

Being that the Grasshopper, like the ant, has learned not to care of the woes of others, he as well falls into ruin and society crumbles due to lack of understanding.

The Butterfly, understanding the woes of both the Ant and the Grasshopper, lies in bed wondering why so few accepted his offer of change, for he has already foreseen the destruction it would cause. Vain ambition has ruined the lives of all his insect friends and now he waits in wonder of why so few care for bugs of another breed.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Butterflies are great, but are too few and far between; Obama 2012' (you knew it was coming!!!)
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Hope you don't mind me tweaking it a bit. Thought it needed a happier ending!.:)
 
Alan and Stregone a question for you. How far into my post did you have to read before you determined what its nature was? Why did you read further? Why did you take time out of your busy schedule to respond? Why do you torment yourselves so?
 
I read the entire thing. Once I started I figured it would be a waste of time not to find out what the point was, or if it had one. I was also hoping since it was you it might be humorous....
And it didn't say "FWD" on it.....
 
It's a cute story I guess. To be honest, for an ultra-lib, borderline socialist, I sometimes don't have much sympathy for lazy freeloaders. I think my lib tendencies wouldn't be as strong if only lazy adults were the issue. But I can't help but feel compassion for children, even the children of lazy freeloaders. Yeah, I feel bad for the overburdened "ants." But I can't get all teary-eyed thinking about the rich guy who has to settle for a smaller yacht, especially when his money came from his Daddy.
 
Roy Munson said:
But I can't help but feel compassion for children, even the children of lazy freeloaders.
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Yeah, but if you really search your soul... what is the only reason that you and I get up and go to work every day? Why do I work three jobs a year? It's not because I love my job(s) that is for sure... it's because I was raised to believe that hard work is what keeps you going and is required for life on this planet.

The children of the lazy freeloaders wake up every day to see their parents still in bed or lounging around on the sofa watching Regis and Kelly... where is the motivation and positive role model for them to go out and get a job and NOT sit on their butts and get paid by the state?

State sponsored welfare as a helping hand... okay... but as a way of life for generations of people?? Come on, man....
 
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