From: 	 heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com
Sent: 	 Wednesday, October 29, 1997 12:09 AM
To: 	 Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup
Subject: FABLE: The Ant and the Grasshopper



From:          "Widgren, Valerie"
To:            "'Hebraic Roots/Chumney'" <heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com>
Subject:      FABLE: The Ant and the Grasshopper


                     THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

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 is 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.
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                 THE NEW LIBERAL VERSION:
 
 It starts out the same, but when winter comes, 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 and provide 
pictures of the shivering Grasshopper next to film of the Ant in his 
comfortable home with a table filled with food.
 
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.  How can it be that, in a
country of such wealth, this poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer 
so?  Then a representative of the NAAGB (The National Association 
For the Advancement of Green Bugs) shows up on "Nightline" and 
charges the Ant with "Green Bias" and makes the case that the 
Grasshopper is the victim of 30 million years of greenism.  Kermit the 
frog appears on "Oprah" with the Grasshopper, and everybody cries 
when he sings, "It's Not Easy Being Green".
 
Bill and Hillary Clinton make a special guest appearance on the CBS
Evening News and tell a concerned Dan Rather that they will do everything 
they can for the poor Grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity 
he deserves by those who benefited unfairly during the "Era of Greed".

Richard Gephardt  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-greeniism 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 
moms who can only hear cases on Thursday afternoon between 
1:30 and 3:00 pm, when there are no talk shows scheduled.
 

                    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 since he 
doesn't know how to maintain it.  The Ant has disappeared in the snow.  
And on the TV, which the Grasshopper bought by selling most of the Ant's 
food, they are showing Bill Clinton standing before a wildly applauding 
audience announcing that a new era of "Fairness" has dawned in 
America!!!  

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