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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 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: Be careful how you vote in 2010.