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 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 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 ofspiders
> 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.
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