The Moral of the story

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This one is a little different... Two Different Versions! Two Different Morals!
[/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] OLD VERSION:[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The ant works hard in the withering heat all
summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances
and plays the summer away.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] MORAL OF THE STORY:[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Be responsible for yourself!
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] MODERN VERSION:[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] 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.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, 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.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] 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.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry 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.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity &Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] 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.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] 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.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] The ant has disappeared in the snow.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] 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.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] MORAL OF THE STORY:[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Be careful how you vote in 2010.[/FONT]

Reminds me of the childrens tale... I think it was Henny Penny. Funny how some very basic things get twisted.

Speaking of fairy tales, I'm rather sick of all my favorite tales being made politically correct.I was reading Red Riding Hood to my kid one time out of a book a bought at the dollar store.
When I read the book as a child, Red and her Grandmother get eaten, and a woodsman comes and chops the wolf open and saves them.Improbable,but it had a good lesson.Don't talk to strangers.
When reading this version to my daughter, nobody got eaten...they told the wolf to go away and he felt bad and left them alone.WTF!Bring back violence in fairy tales, thank you!Soft fairy tales make soft children!

Stoney McFried said:

Speaking of fairy tales, I'm rather sick of all my favorite tales being made politically correct.I was reading Red Riding Hood to my kid one time out of a book a bought at the dollar store.
When I read the book as a child, Red and her Grandmother get eaten, and a woodsman comes and chops the wolf open and saves them.Improbable,but it had a good lesson.Don't talk to strangers.
When reading this version to my daughter, nobody got eaten...they told the wolf to go away and he felt bad and left them alone.WTF!Bring back violence in fairy tales, thank you!Soft fairy tales make soft children!

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Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel were lost in the woods when they came upon a house made of candy and cake. An old witch invited them in and then captured both of them intending to eat them. Gretel had a chance save both of them by pushing the old woman in an oven but she decided that it would be wrong not to respect the witch's cultural traditions. So Gretel and her brother allowed themselves to be cooked and eaten. The witch was so happy with the children's actions that she invited all of her witch friends to the area. Soon thereafter, they ate every child in a hundred mile radius. Soon the whole area was filled with nothing but child eating witches and all the witches were very happy!
The Moral of the Story: You must respect the culture of others, even at your own expense!
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Fisherman and the Fish
An old man finds a fish. The fish says "Let me go, old man. I will reward you for my freedom by giving you anything you desire". The old man at the behest of his wife makes wish after wish. Finally, the fish decides the old man and his wife are being too greedy and takes everything he gave them away. Then the man and his wife hire Johnny Cochran and sue the federal government for not having federal regulations in place to prevent wishing fish from unfairly taking away previously given magical spoils. The judge ruled in their favor and they were both given 500 million dollars worth of taxpayer funds with which they lived happily ever after.
The Moral of the Story: It's the federal government's responsibility to fix every bad thing that happens in the world.
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The Three Billy-Goats Gruff
The first and second billy goat gruffs were stopped from going across a bridge to get food by a troll. Then the biggest and baddest billy goat gruff showed up. He told the troll he was going to kick his @ss. That greatly upset the first and second of the billy goats gruff who accused the third billy goat gruff of "hegemony" and "imperialism" and said that negotiation was the way to go. So the third billy goat gruff went away. Unfortunately, the troll refused to negotiate and first two billy goats gruff starved to death.
The Moral of the Story:It's better to starve to death than to fight!
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The Three Little Pigs
There were once three little pigs. The first little pig built his house out of straw. But the big bad wolf easily knocked it down. Then he ran to the 2nd pig's house which was made out of sticks. But the wolf came there and knocked it down too. Then both pigs ran to the American pig's house which was made out brick. When the wolf came there, the American pig pulled out a gun and blew his stinking head off. Afterwards, both little pigs who lost their houses started building their houses out of straw again. When the American pig asked them why they accused the American of being an "arrogant jerk" and of "acting unilaterally". But they secretly knew the American would always save them, just like he did in WW1 and WW2 so they could afford not to be prepared.
The Moral of the Story: Even though Americans are helpful, they're real creeps!
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The Ants and the Grasshopper
All summer long the ants worked and prepared for the winter while the grasshopper went to Rage Against the Machine concerts and played Everquest. The grasshopper laughed and laughed at the ants for working so hard. Then winter came. The ants had plenty of food and shelter while the grasshopper had none. So the government took the ants tax money and built the grasshopper a house, gave him welfare cheese to eat, and paid for courses at the local university that the grasshopper didn't bother to go to. When the ants complained everyone agreed that they were greedy rich jerks for having more than the grasshopper.
The Moral of the Story: Taking money from people who work hard and giving it to the lazy is compassionate!