The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's 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 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."
Bill and Hillary Clinton make a special guest appearance on the CBS Evening News to tell a concerned Dan Rather that they will do everything in their power for the grasshopper, who has been denied the prosperity he deserves by those who benefited unfairly during the Reagan summers or, as Bill refers to that period, as the "Temperatures of the 80's."
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where news stations film the group singing "We Shall Overcome." Jesse then has the group kneel down to God for the grasshopper’s sake.
Al Gore exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share."
Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Ant 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.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant. The case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients who can only hear cases on Thursdays between 1:30 and 3:00 p.m. when there are no talk shows scheduled. The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him due to neglect. The ant has disappeared in the snow. And on TV, which the grasshopper bought by selling most of the ant’s food, they are showing Bill Clinton standing before a wildly applauding group of Democrats announcing that a new era of "fairness" has dawned in America. 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.
Another version.
The pig with the house of wood, thought the Big Bad Wolf, using up all its resources, and then buying recourses from the American pig who was happy to take the money.
A year later the wolf turned on to Bear country, where after initial successes it started to lose, meanwhile the American Pig fat and happy after milking the wooden house pig of a lot of his foreign possessions was attacked by the little yellow dwarfs, the wolf promptly declared war on the American pig.
The American pig was forced to join the war, his help was gladly welcomed although the Wolf was almost already on his knees from the battering given it by the Bears, and the wooden house pig.
The Wolf was finally beaten, and everyone settled down ready to fight a new war this time the Pigs and the Wolfs, once again on the two little pigs land.
Moral of the story, what mo0ral this aint no cr***y American sitcom with a sugery coated sickly moral in every scene.
Cheers Tony
Looking forward to more.... JD86, LBGA: {{{{{PING}}}}}