Re: A Modern Fable

In article <fZ0Km.9826$gi1.5278@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tony <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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."

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news
stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Rev Jeremiah
Wright then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the
grasshopper's sake.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid 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
Green Czar. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the
last bits of the ants 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.

Nahh, nothing subtly racist about this.
.

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