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.