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ARealConservative
07-26-2007, 12:52 PM
The Ant and the Grasshopper

*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 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 over come." Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry claim 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 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. 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!

ChooseLiberty
07-26-2007, 04:29 PM
The ant then tells all the other ants his story and all the ants move to Brazil or Chile

Kuldebar
07-26-2007, 04:30 PM
The ant then tells all the other ants his story and all the ants move to Brazil or Chile
Belize, Belize is the best.

And, the Ant should write a tell all book, make lots of money and maybe get a movie deal.

ChooseLiberty
07-26-2007, 04:32 PM
And grasshoppers destroy the USA. The End.



The ant then tells all the other ants his story and all the ants move to Brazil or Chile

Brutus
07-26-2007, 04:33 PM
"The ant then tells all the other ants his story and all the ants move to Brazil or Chile"

And the Grasshoppers still tax the ants for 10 years after they leave.

ChooseLiberty
07-26-2007, 04:40 PM
But the grasshoppers didn't have an extradition treaty with Brazil so the ants thumb their noses at the grasshoppers.

Fine'.


"The ant then tells all the other ants his story and all the ants move to Brazil or Chile"

And the Grasshoppers still tax the ants for 10 years after they leave.

Kuldebar
07-26-2007, 04:42 PM
"The ant then tells all the other ants his story and all the ants move to Brazil or Chile"

And the Grasshoppers still tax the ants for 10 years after they leave.

It's alright! The grasshoppers can make paper money from all the chewed up plant pulp scattered around!

lucius
07-26-2007, 04:42 PM
an extradition treaty with Brazil


Is that true?

Kuldebar
07-26-2007, 04:43 PM
Is that true?

It's true, the U.S. can not legally extradite Ants from Brazil.

:D

ChooseLiberty
07-26-2007, 04:45 PM
Extradition for tax issues? Don't know, but it made a good ending.


Is that true?

Brutus
07-29-2007, 11:22 PM
The US Government claims the right to tax you for 10 years after you leave.

Read here if you want the nitty gritty details...

http://hodgsonruss.com/Home/Offices/Buffalo_NY/Articles/USExpatriates