 So true!
Subject: Modern fable
You've seen this before, but a few changes have been made to make it current.
> The Updated Ant and the Grasshopper
>
> 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 UPDATED 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 shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and
> demands
> to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are 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."
>
> Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house
> where the
> news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Jesse then
> has
> the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
>
> Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry & 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 and 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.
>
> Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a
> defamation
> suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal
> judges
> that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare
> recipients.
> The ant loses the case.
>
> The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits
> of the
> ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to
> be the
> ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
>
> The ant has disappeared in the snow.
>
> 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 once
> peaceful neighborhood.
>
>
> MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008. |