Hey Guz- how's it going? I hear you took that job where you are working
those funky hours. I thought you would appreciate this little story about
the ant and the grasshopper!!! Remember to vote!!! Later, Jeff


>From: Nathan Bennett DNET <NBennett@deltanet.net>
>To: "'Jennifer Yax'" <jay@severson.com>,        "'jfbosu@hotmail.com'"
><jfbosu@hotmail.com>
>Subject: FW: Remember to Vote
>Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:01:03 -0700
>
>My dad sent this to me.  I think you will enjoy this.
>
>Subject: FW: Rember to Vote
>
>
>Ant it the truth!
>
> > Subject: FW: Remember to VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > A story you must read!
> >
> > THE CLASSIC 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.
> >
> > THE 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."
> >
> > Bill and Hillary Clinton make a special guest appearance on the CBS
> > Evening News to tell a concerned Dan Rather that they will do everything
> > they can for the grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity he
> > deserves by those who benefited unfairly during the Reagan summers, or
>as
> > Bill refers to it as "temperatures of the 80's."
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Al Gore 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-Ant 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.  The case is tried before a panel of federal
>judges
> > that Bill appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients who
> > can only hear cases on Thursday's 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 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 group of Democrats announcing that a
> > new era of "fairness" has dawned in America.  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.
> >
> > Remember to Vote

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