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2/9/14

The Ant and the grasshopper: Two Versions

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.