The Ant And The Grasshopper

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 ...'

Occupy the Anthill stages a demonstration
in front of the ant's house where the news stations
film the Black Lives Matter group singing,
We shall overcome.

Then Reverend Al Sharpton has the group kneel down
to pray for the grasshopper
while he damns the ants.

He later appears on MSNBC to complain that rich people do not care.

Former President Obama condemns the ant
and blames Donald Trump, President Bush 43,
President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus,
and T he Pope for the grasshopper's plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer 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 an 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


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