THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
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!
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
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.
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.'
Rev.
Jeremiah Wright then
has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
Nancy
Pelosi & Harry Reid 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.
The
story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing
up the last bits of the ants 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
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Be careful how you vote in coming elections.... your vote counts!.