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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 OLD 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 for thegrasshopper’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
of green bugs and,
having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his
home is confiscated by the Government GreenCzar
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 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 a grasshopper!

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.