Ant and Grasshopper

> THE ANT AND
>
> THE GRASSHOPPER
>
>
>
>
>
>
> This
>
> one is a little
> different...
>
> Two
>
> Different Versions! .................
>
> Two
>
> Different Morals!
>
>
> 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 lays 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
> alowed 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: Be
>
> careful how you vote in 2010.
>
>
>
> "In God
> We
> Trust"
>