THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER.
This one is a little different
Two
Different
Versions, Two
Different
Morals.
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.
Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION:
The
ant works hard in the withering heat
and rain 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 he
is cold and
starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, 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'.
ACORN
stages a
demonstration
in front of
the ant's
house where
the news
stations film
the group
singing, “We shall overcome”.
Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray
for the grasshopper's sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and
blames President Bush, President Reagan,
Christopher
Columbus, and
the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has
gotten rich
off the back
of the grasshopper, and both 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 Green
Czar and given to
the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends
finishing up
the last bits
of the ant's
food while the
government
house he is in,
which, as you
recall, just
happens to be
the ant's old house, crumbles around them
because the grasshopper doesn't maintain
it.
The ant has disappeared
in the snow,
never to be
seen again.
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 and
ramshackle the once prosperous
and peaceful
neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the
free world
with it.
Be careful how you vote in 2018
and 2020
I've sent this to you because I
believe that
you are an ant!
You may wish to pass this on to
other ants,
but don't
bother sending
it on to any grasshoppers, because they wouldn't understand it
anyway.
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