Posted on 08/23/2013 9:12:10 AM PDT by oldbrowser
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 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 of green 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 and ramshackle, the 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 2014
I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant!
You may wish to pass this on to other ants, but don't bother sending it on to any grasshopper's because they wouldn't understand it, anyway.
Very appropriate, that should be the DNC logo.
Originally written by Jim Quinn (WPGB 104.7, Pittsburgh). Of course, somebody has made some changes to suit the times.
(Quinn & Rose Morning Show. www.warroom.com)
Two stories that have been altered by the cartoon Super Y
The Red Hen
A Mother hen wants to bake bread. She goes and asks the first barnyard friend if he will help her plant some wheat. The friend says no he doesn’t have the times. Then she asks someone to help her harvest it, again no. She asks for help milling or baking the bread again no. When she bakes the bread everyone wants to help her eat it. This time she says no. Moral: If you don’t lend a hand don’t expect to reap the rewards.
New version ( this was the actual cartoon on tv)
The Red Hen does all the same asking and being refused . Makes the bread all by herself. Their moral of the story was it was her fault because she should have explained it better as to why she needed their help.
Boy who cried wolf.
Boy keeps sounding the alarm that he sees a wolf when their really isn’t one. Finally when he actually sees a wolf no one believes him and the wolf eats the little boy. Moral: Don’t lie
New version
Boys actually sees a wolf tells his parents. They don’t believe him. He sees the wolf again and still his parents don’t believe him. The third time the wolf eats the little boy. New Moral: Parents should listen more to what their children are saying.
The world has been turned upside down I am afraid.
I think he went on tour. (Not that anyone noticed.)
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