The Ant & The Grasshopper - 2 versions

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-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   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 you will recall is 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 ruin

the once prosperous  and peaceful neighborhood.

 

The entire Nation then collapses, dragging the rest

of the free world with it.

 

MORAL OF THE STORY:  

 

Be careful how you vote in 2016 !

 

I've sent this to you because  I believe you are an ant!

 

You may wish to pass this on to other ants , but

don't bother sending   it to any grasshoppers

because they wouldn't  understand it anyway.