The Ant and the Grasshopper

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 even 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 2012


I've posted this 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.