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The Ant and the Grasshopper: The real story

    2008 Political 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, party 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, MSNBC 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.  The New York Times and The Washington Post decry the ant as a cold and heartless capitalist.

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    Liberal 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?
   

    Green Peace activists appear on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing.  “Is Not Easy Being Green.”
   

    Al Sharpton and ACLU stage a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Reverend Jeremiah Wright then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake while blaming and blaspheming America.
   

    Fox News, Bill O’Rilley and Sean Hannity try unsuccessfully to expose the bias portrayed against the vilified honest and hard working ant.
   

    Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Chris Mathews from MSNBC 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 (Equal Employment Opportunity Compliance) 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 that were not interest in getting a job. Having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
   

    Johnny Cochran Jr. is appointed to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of liberal federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed during his administration.
   

    The ant loses the case.
   

    The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food.  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 Crack cocaine related incident. The house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.

   

    Moral of the story: Vote wisely in 2008