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 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 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' Occupy the Anthill stages a demonstration in front of
the ant's house where the
news stations film the SEIU group singing, and we shall overcome. Then Rev Al Sharpton's assistant has
the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper
while he damns the ants. The Reverend Al can not attend as he has
contractual commitments to appear on his MSNBC show for which he is paid over
two million dollars a year to complain that rich people do not care.
President Obama condemns the ant and
blames President Bush 43,
President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for
the grasshopper's plight. Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim
in an interview on The View 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 the ramshackle, 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 Liberals are
Destroying America and will accomplish their destruction if you let them.
I've sent this to you
because I believe that you are an ant not a grasshopper! Make sure
that you pass this on to other ants. Don't bother sending it on
to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it, anyway.
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