Our industrious Alaska Contributor, TG, sends this:
THE NEW ANT and the Grasshopper, " Two Versions:"
The ANT
AND THE
GRASSHOPPER
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 &
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.