Story from a Canadian

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
shiveringgrasshopper
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 news stations 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,
President Reagan, 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 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 grasshopperdoesn'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.











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