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Conservative Republican 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 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. The Liberal Democrat Version: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grashopper 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 less fortunate are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, and ABC show up to provde pictures of the shivering grasshoppper 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 station films the group singing "We Shall Overcome." 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 EEOC drafts 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. So, having nothing left to pay his retoactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. Hillary Clinton gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defanation 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.

I have seen several people that would represent the grasshopper. It makes me soooo mad to hear people that don't work complaining that they don't have everything that the people that work for a living have. Well guess what, this is America and there is nothing that says that you can't get a job and EARN the things in life that you want. There is nothing in the Constitution either that say you are entitled to a free ride. If you are able to work, go get a job to put food on the table. I think that the work programs that were around during the depression should be brought back. If you don't work, you don't eat!!! Don't get me wrong I feel that everyone has a responsiblilty to take care of people that are incapable of taking care of themselves( people in nursing homes, disabled veterans, young childern, etc), but those people that are capable of working and are just to lazy to do so, need a good swift kick in the butt. Too bad todays liberals wouldn't go for the old work programs.

Haymaker

If you don't work, you don't eat!!!

Thats exactly what Jesus said. Imagine that.

That has got to be one of the best things I have read in a while. The sad part is that it is dead on the money. Although, you did fail to mention anything about gays and the pro-choice people.

Oh my goodness! That was so hilarious but true!

Wingman

Wingman, I thought that you could probably relate to the bug story, being that you live in the delta. Although it is a little far fetched, it does hold some truth to it.