Joke of the Day...

[bonyhadi]

Social Evolution?

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. Grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.

DEMOCRATIC 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 then they sing "It's Not Easy Being
Green."

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 G-d 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 EOC drafts the "Economic Equity and 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.

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 recipients. 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 because he doesn't
maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow.

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.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

VOTE REPUBLICAN!