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Curators' note: This is an updated version of this "Be careful how you vote" tale of 2008.


> > THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

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> > This one is a little different... . Two Different Versions.....
> > .......... ..... Two Different Morals
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> > OLD VERSION
> > The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
> > house and laying up supplies for the winter.
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> > The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and
> > plays the summer away...
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> > Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
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> > The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
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> > MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself !
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> > MODERN VERSION
> > 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 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 he is 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.
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> > America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
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> > How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor
> > grasshopper is allowed to suffer so ?
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> > Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with
> > the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy
> > Being Green.'
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> > ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the
> > news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Then Rev.
> > Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the
> > grasshopper's sake.
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> > President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President
> > Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's
> > plight.
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> > Nancy Pelosi & 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.
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> > Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act
> > retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
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> > 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 Green Czar and given to the
> > grasshopper.
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> > The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends
> > finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government
> > house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old
> > house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain
> > it.
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> > The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
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> > 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 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 & 2012.
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> > I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant - not a
> > grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don't
> > bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't
> > understand it, anyway.
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