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[Samileino]

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.

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.
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.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Vote Republican

[buffman]

Someone once said the poor will be with us always. A book once said if a man does not work, then he should not eat.

The new age thinker comes along and gives huge sums of other people's money to give away free food, free money, free homes, and free education. Does he consider this to be a hand up? No, it becomes a never ending cycle, perpetuating itself within the generations.
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Never Ever Give Up
America First

[Samileino]

We've "brainwashed" our 9 y/o son into believing the rep party is bettrer for people. My DH and I (and all my family and his are die hards pretty much). He once asked what the difference was between a dem and rep. I told him that if you had someone who was hungry what was better to give them a fish for dinner or to teach them how to fish (okay so my son is a huge fisherman now and he even at that age understood that teaching them how to fish would be better for them in a long run and truly could not understand the concept of "giving someone something". It's hilarious to hear him pick things out...we were watching one of the debates and Kerry said that Bush hadn't supplied armor to our troops....my son looks at me INCREDIBLY mad (my cousin is in Iraq and he is incredibly proud of our troops and law enforcement...he considers them his REAL heroes) and said 'that's cause that dork voted against it". Out of the mouths of babes. My son has INCREDIBLE empathy for those hurting...but even at his age he has no problem understanding people should work for more.

Sami