the ant and the grasshopper

THE ANT AND
THE GRASSHOPPER
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 STORY:


Be responsible
for yourselfMODERN
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
shivering grasshopper calls
a press conference and demands to know why the ant should
be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are 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.' Rev.
Jeremiah Wright then
has the group kneel down to pray to God for


the grasshopper's sake.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 GovernmentGreenCzar.



The story
ends as we see the grasshopper finishing
up the last bits of the ant's food
while the government house he is in, which just happens to be
the ant's old
house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain
it.


The ant has disappeared
in the snow.

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 once peaceful
neighborhood.

MORAL
OF THE STORY:


Be
careful how you vote in 2010...