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 STORY: Be responsible for yourself!



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MODERN 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.'



Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the

news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Jesse then has

the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.



Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry 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.



Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation

suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal
judges

that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare

recipients.



The ant loses the case.



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 2008