The ant and the grasshopper - 2 versions

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

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!


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 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 to God for the grasshopper's sake.

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 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 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 once peaceful, neighborhood. The entire
Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.