[Lechium]

>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 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.
>
>MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
>
>
>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.
>
>Tom Daschle & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Peter Jennings 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, 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.
>
>MORAL OF THE STORY: Vote Republican



Got in e-mail from my friend... he loved it, despite the fact that he's democrat lol
I dont have much love for repuclican party myself, but hey, this joke has got the point.