New Version of Ant & Grasshopper.
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New Version of Ant & Grasshopper.
THE NEW ANT and the Grasshopper,
Two Versions:
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 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 cannot
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 2016.
I've sent this to you because I
believe that you are an ant not
a grasshopper!
Make sure that you pass this on
to other ants.
Don't bother sending it on to any
grasshoppers because they
wouldn't understand it, anyway
Two Versions:
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 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 cannot
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 2016.
I've sent this to you because I
believe that you are an ant not
a grasshopper!
Make sure that you pass this on
to other ants.
Don't bother sending it on to any
grasshoppers because they
wouldn't understand it, anyway
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