Thread: The Obama Agenda../chuckle

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 the ant 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.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!


TODAY'S MODERN / LIBERAL 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 the ant is 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.

The television networks and a Norther NJ newspaper (any guesses?) 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?

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

(ii) Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, ‘Kumbaya' and blaming Bush. Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to G-d for the grasshopper's sake.

(iii) Nancy Pelosi , Harry Reid, and John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and the three call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & 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.

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 grasshopper on grasshopper incident. 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 2010

I needed that today, and actually spit out the nails I was chewing to laugh!
Of course, it is all so obviously true that I have the tissues ready for sobbing about the entire mess.

The credit card company advises that those not able to pay their bill will now get a longer grace period. There will be no fee for going over limit. If they pay late there won't be the big fee tacked on for late payment. They will no longer increase interest rates(as high as they did) for default on credit or default on other cards. There will be an extension of time in posting payments to keep them from being late.

You folks that follow our rules, pay your bill ontime, will now pay a higher interest rate and have your minimum payment increased.

Thanks Congress./sarc Good luck on the recovery without credit.