The Ant & The Grasshopper
Two Different Versions ...
Two Different Morals...
FIRST THE 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!
NEXT THE 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...'
Occupy the Anthill stages a
demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations
film the SEIU group singing, 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 cannot 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, 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.
THE MORAL OF THIS STORY
Be careful how you vote in both the
midterms and in 2016.
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