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 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
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 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 to God 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 & 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 ofgreen 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 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.
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 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
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 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 to God 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 & 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 ofgreen 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 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.
