THE NEW ANT and the                            Grasshopper
                                               
                                                                     The ANT AND THE                        GRASSHOPPER 
                                                                     
                                                                     
This one is a little different                        .... 
                                                                     
Two Different Versions ...                        
                                                                     
                       
                                              
                       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!
                        
                       
                                              
                       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 SEIU                        group singing, ‘We shall overcome’.
                       Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the                        group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake, while                        he damns the ants.
 
                       
                       President Obama condemns the ant and                        blames President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President                        Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and white men in general 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 of                        spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and                        peaceful, neighborhood.