THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
Two Different Versions....
.............. Two Different Morals
OLD VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
his house in the good ole USA, 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 in the cold. | |
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MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for your future!
MODERN VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
his house in the good ole USA, 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 and President Obama says it is time to share the wealth.
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." Rev. Jeremiah Wright |
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President Obama accuses the ant of being greedy, and blames President Bush and those nasty Republicans for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Katie Couric 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 “share his wealth”..
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the summer. They determine the ant failed to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and he is fined accordingly. Unable to pay his fine, the ant’s house is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given
to the grasshopper.
The ant holds a news conference to explain that his treatment is anti-Constitutional, but onlyFOX news attends and airs the story. CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC ignore the ant’s story, and accuse FOX of being a mouthpiece for the Republican Party.
The story ends with the grasshopper and his free-loading
friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food ,while the ant's old house
crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
The ant and most of the other ants move to another country where they can prosper.
The government tries to give the grasshopper another house, but they can’t raise enough tax money to foot the bill because there are no ants to tax.
The original grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and what is left of the house is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once prosperous and once 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
sent this to you because I believe you are an ant -
not a grasshopper! Please forward this to other ants.
Don't bother sending
it to any grasshoppers because they wouldn'tadmit it has any relevance anyway
Teach your children well
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