Byrdie714

Got this via email and had to share.

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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.

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!

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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 allowed to 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 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 & 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 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 careful how you vote in 2008

Deafness

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lumbingmi

Funny but real life isn't like that.

We still have millions of homeless who dying every year.

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Byrdie714

Uh.....are you sure?

Because of recent experience with FEMA, I don't think that anyone who prepares themselves will ever get help from the government.

lumbingmi

Ofc not. I'm exaggerating the numbers. I am sure there are several homeless people dying every year.

FEMA? I m not familiar but what s the deal?

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Picard: Seize the time, Meribor, live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.
Meribor: I love you, father.

Byrdie714

FEMA = Federal Emergency Management Agency.

We had a natural disaster 2 months ago and FEMA came into assist everyone. Luckily we didn't suffer physical/property damage but did suffer economic damages due the collapse of the infrastructure of communications, electricity, etc.

Anyway, they made an announcement that everyone that suffered in the disaster, economically/physical/property damage was entitled to a one time assistance for food vouchers to be used at the grocery store.

We went down to the local FEMA office and eventually was denied because as the lady said, "you didn't suffer enough." I lost over $400.00 in food spoilage in both freezers and refrigerator.

The money I had set aside for gifts for Christmas ended up going for food for us. No one got gifts from us this past year.

Basically, I am paying into a system that doesn't assist us when we really need it.

When I hear FEMA, I always think, "Federal Emergency MIS-Management Agency".