New Ant and Grasshopper

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building hishouse and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances andplays 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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The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain 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 andplays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference anddemands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fedwhile he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of theshivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortablehome 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 poorgrasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybodycries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where thenews stations film the group singing,'We shall overcome.' Rev.Jeremiah Wright then has the group kneel down to pray to God for thegrasshopper's sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, PresidentReagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper'splight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King thatthe ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both callfor an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Actretroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of greenbugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his homeis confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friendsfinishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the governmenthouse he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's oldhouse, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintainit.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again..
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and thehouse, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang ofspiders who terrorizethe ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.