The New Ant and 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 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 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 .