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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. The 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 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, and the case is tried
> > before a panel of
> > >federal judges that Bill 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.
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