The Ant and the Grasshopper

The Ant and the Grasshopper

MODERN VERSION:

The horse works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The flea thinks the horse is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering flea calls a press conference and demands to know why the horse should be allowed to 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 flea next to a video of the horse 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 flea is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the flea, and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray for the flea's sake.

Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the horse has gotten rich off the back of the flea, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the horse to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-flea Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The horse 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 flea in a defamation suit against the horse, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.

The horse loses the case.

The story ends as we see the flea finishing up the last bits of the horse's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the horse's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.

The horse has disappeared in the snow.

The flea 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 in 2012

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear & the blind can read."...Mark Twain

As I am now; so shall you be So prepare for Death and follow me; To follow you I'm not content Until I know which way you went. Anous.

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Black Crime in Jackson, MS

For years and years Jackson, Mississippi was a wonderful place to grow up and raise a family, however the winds of change have blown across Jackson until the city is hardly noticeable. In the 1960's the city's population and demographics began to change. With more and more minorities moving to the inner cities across the nation, the beautiful cities of America gave way to slums and crime.

At one point the majority of crimes committed in Jackson, Mississippi was black on black. With the increasing numbers of minorities moving to Jackson; the ever increasing cost of living; the use and dependence on drugs and the disappearance of family values and moral issues, the black on black crime was replaced by crime on anyone who could not defend themselves. There are streets and communities in Jackson where at one time it was safe to visit anytime day or night. Those areas now are not safe even in the daylight hours. Many of the city police have become involved in some of the crime...leaving little hope for the city. The city government has become a laughing matter for the entire nation and is condemed by many of the decent citizens both black and white.