At 08:05 PM 1/13/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Good day,
>
>        This from one of the humor lists.  BTW, being joyfully politically
>incorrect, I whole heartedly agree with this.  This tickled me.  Maybe it
>will you too.
>
>Jeff long distance, part/time CG for Becky, Seattle, WA
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>
>The Original Version:
>
> The ant busts his hump 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 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 show 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, in a country of
> such wealth that this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Then a
> representative of the NAGB (The National Association 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 grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity he deserves by
> those who benefited unfairly during the summer, or as Bill refers to it, the
> "Temperatures Of The 80's".
>
> Finally the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Greenism Act"
> RECTROACTIVE 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's 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, Bill Clinton is
> standing before a wildly applauding group of Democrats announcing that a
> new era of "Fairness" has dawned in America.
>
> **************
>
> "You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot
> strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage
> earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood
> of man by encouraging class hatred. You cannot help the poor by
> destroying the rich. You cannot build character and courage by taking away
> a man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by
> doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
>
> --Abraham Lincoln
>A fine piece of prose by Mr. Lincoln - before going to bed tonite this will
help me go to sleep. More please...
Fell