GRASSHOPPER
AND THE ANT.
Same story but 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!
NEW
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.
President condemns the ant and blames previous
opposition government for the grasshopper's plight. Politicians exclaim in interview
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 and
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 world has collapsed.
MORAL
OF THE STORY: This is democracy
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