The Ant and The Grasshopper Two Versions...From Vicki... READ

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 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 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.'
> >
> > ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house
> where the newsstations 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, PresidentReagan, 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 isconfiscated 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.