THE ANT AND THE
GRASSHOPPER This one is a little different... ... Two Different Versions....
............ .. Two Different Morals
OLD VERSION
The antworks 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 grasshopperhas 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 and the 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 grasshoppercalls a press
conference and demands to know why the antshould 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 shiveringgrasshoppernext to a
video of the antin 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 grasshopperis allowed
to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprahwith the grasshopperand everybody
cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green...'
ACORNstages a demonstration in front of the ant's house
where the news stations film the group singing, "We
shall overcome."ThenRev. Jeremiah
Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper' s
sake.
President Obamacondemns
theantand blames
President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the
Pope for the grasshopper' s plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry Kingthat the ant has gotten
rich off the back ofthe grasshopper, and both
call for an immediate tax hike on theantto make
him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity &
Anti-Grasshopper Actretroactive to the beginning of
the summer.
The antis fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugsand, having nothing left to
pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the GovernmentGreenCzarand given
to thegrasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopperand his free-loading
friends finishing up the last bits of the ant'sfood 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 grasshopperis found
dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over
by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous
and once peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE
STORY:Be careful how you vote in 2010.
I've
sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant -
not agrasshopper! Make sure that you pass
this on to other ants. Don't bother sending
it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't
understand it, anyway
