A life lesson tale-please share with your children!

[sheepshead]

Modern Day Ant and Grasshopper



There are two Versions - Read
Both !!!



TRADITIONAL 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!





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 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 & Harry
Reid 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 Clinton 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 very careful how you vote in
2008

[Harlan Huckleby]

ya, ya - the rich people are good and virtuous.

the poor people are lazy and bad.

fuck you

[Scott Campbell]

Hilarious story!!!

[Partial]

Hilarious!!

[Little Whiskey]

the poor people are lazy and bad.

fuck you

naaaa, just blue dogs

[sheepshead]

ya, ya - the rich people are good and virtuous.

the poor people are lazy and bad.

fuck you

Nice! Now there's a civil response! Besides you're missing the point. It's not about rich people. Rich people dont work for their money (see Kerry, John,;Kennedy, Edward, John, Robert) they inherit it. This is about hard working people. Not rich at all.

[Iron Mike]

ya, ya - the rich people are good and virtuous.

the poor people are lazy and bad.

fuck you

Nice! Now there's a civil response! Besides you're missing the point. It's not about rich people. Rich people dont work for their money (see Kerry, John,;Kennedy, Edward, John, Robert) they inherit it. This is about hard working people. Not rich at all.

[LL2]

Here's another version of the story...

The ant toils daily, makes sacrifices (no luxury vacations in far-flung colonies), scrimps and saves to send his larvae to college and retire. He struggles to manage and properly diversify his crumbs, tries to take appropriate risk (foraging just far enough from the nest to get results without getting devoured), and hopes the queen ant doesn't tax his stash into oblivion.

The grasshopper, meanwhile, plays his fiddle, replaces his molting exoskeleton with one by Prada every season, ignores his 401(k) plan, buys an alfalfa pasture with no money down and a subprime mortgage, and hops away when the interest rate readjusts.

You can read the whole article here...

http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/moneyhappy/73482

[Harlan Huckleby]

Re: A life lesson tale-please share with your children!

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

MORAL: the poor or struggling people you see on TV are like the lazy grasshopper. So its a cause for smugness by the comfortable middle class, not a concern.

F-you again. And I certainly will remember your little morale fable when it is time to vote. But I will likely vote for McCain anyway, even though the class-warfare mongers within the Rebublican Party make it a wrenching decision.

PS. Nice cracker-pleasing reference to Jessie Jackson. Jackson has been out of the spotlight for a good ten years. Couldn't you choose a more topical uppity nigger like Obama or Rev. Wright?

[falco]

Re: A life lesson tale-please share with your children!

PS. Nice cracker-pleasing reference to Jessie Jackson. Jackson has been out of the spotlight for a good ten years. Couldn't you choose a more topical uppity nigger like Obama or Rev. Wright?

hey, they wouldn't be so uppity if it wasn't for those "northern white boat-rocking civil rights workers to go down south a generation ago and basically stir up trouble among blacks who were content with their life".

[sheepshead]

Re: A life lesson tale-please share with your children!

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

MORAL: the poor or struggling people you see on TV are like the lazy grasshopper. So its a cause for smugness by the comfortable middle class, not a concern.

F-you again. And I certainly will remember your little morale fable when it is time to vote. But I will likely vote for McCain anyway, even though the class-warfare mongers within the Rebublican Party make it a wrenching decision.

PS. Nice cracker-pleasing reference to Jessie Jackson. Jackson has been out of the spotlight for a good ten years. Couldn't you choose a more topical uppity nigger like Obama or Rev. Wright?

Please stop- if you are trying to inject race into this and insinuate I am a racists, I'll gladly PM you with my personal e-mail and cell phone number and we can talk it through. Chill out man.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I apologize for going slightly postal, you pushed my buttons.

And I further apologize to Joemailman for using that demeaning expression.

[texaspackerbacker]

Re: A life lesson tale-please share with your children!

PS. Nice cracker-pleasing reference to Jessie Jackson. Jackson has been out of the spotlight for a good ten years. Couldn't you choose a more topical uppity nigger like Obama or Rev. Wright?

hey, they wouldn't be so uppity if it wasn't for those "northern white boat-rocking civil rights workers to go down south a generation ago and basically stir up trouble among blacks who were content with their life".

Gosh, falco, where did you dig up such a totally profound line like that? I may have to sue you for plagiarism.

LL2, in YOUR version of the story, who is supposed to be who(m)? It sounds to me like you are making the case for the opposite side from what you are on.

Harlan, your belligerent side is showing again. Do you honestly see the Republican Party as the one promoting class warfare? That's just wrong! Class warfare has been the copyrighted trademark of the Democratic Party at least back to FDR.

[hoosier]

Re: A life lesson tale-please share with your children!

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

MORAL: the poor or struggling people you see on TV are like the lazy grasshopper. So its a cause for smugness by the comfortable middle class, not a concern.

F-you again. And I certainly will remember your little morale fable when it is time to vote. But I will likely vote for McCain anyway, even though the class-warfare mongers within the Rebublican Party make it a wrenching decision.

PS. Nice cracker-pleasing reference to Jessie Jackson. Jackson has been out of the spotlight for a good ten years. Couldn't you choose a more topical uppity nigger like Obama or Rev. Wright?

Please stop- if you are trying to inject race into this and insinuate I am a racists, I'll gladly PM you with my personal e-mail and cell phone number and we can talk it through. Chill out man.

Why is it all of a sudden Harlan who's "trying to inject race into this"? Were you completely unaware that your not-so-subtle reference to Jessie Jackson already did that?

[SkinBasket]

Jesus. Now you can't mention a black leader's name without having a racist agenda? I suppose he also introduced batrachophobia into the thread in the same way by including Kermit. Misogyny by the invocation of Oprah's name. Who knows what other irreparable harm has been done by posting this old chain e-mail! The hallowed halls of society are burning!!!!! ZOMG!!! Run for your pathetic lives sinners!!