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This is NOT the oft-circulated version of the old Ant & Grasshopper Story!!

It rather is an analysis of the various news-reporting agencies and individuals on it!
Read it and chuckle..:)))

CLASSIC 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 he's a fool and laughs and dances
and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
Grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.

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 he's 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 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.

Al Gore exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant
has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an
immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share".

Finally, the EOC 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 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 appointed from a list of multi-generation 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:

VOTE REPUBLICAN !!!

Good job with the grasshopper and the ant - thanks for bringing it.

A young Puerto Rican man walked into the local employment office, marched
straight up to the counter and said, "Hi, I'm lookin' for a job."

The man behind the counter replied, "Your timing is amazing. We've just got
a listing from a very wealthy man who wants a chauffeur/bodyguard for his
nympho daughter. You'll have to drive around in a big black Mercedes, but
the suits, shirts, and ties are provided. Because of the long hours of this
job, meals will also be provided and you will also be required to escort
the young lady on her overseas holidays. The salary package is $200,000 a
year.".

The Puerto Rican said, "Ah c'mon, you're bull$hitting me!"

The man behind the counter said, "Well, you started it!".