The Ant And The Grasshopper: Two Versions

Alaska Contributor, TG, sends this:

THE  NEW ANT and the Grasshopper, " Two Versions:"
The  ANT
AND  THE
GRASSHOPPER  

 
 Starring: The Ant(s)


And, The Grasshopper(s):

Just being fair and balanced.

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 SEIU group singing, we shall overcome. Then  Rev Al Sharpton's assistant has  the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper while  he damns the ants. The Reverend Al can not attend as he has contractual commitments to appear on his MSNBC show for which he is paid over two million dollars a year to complain that rich people do not care.

President  Obama condemns the ant and  blames President  Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight

Nancy  Pelosi & Harry Reid 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 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 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 in 2014 and 2016.