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Revised version!
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 and condemns
the
ant
 for being so selfish.

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-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