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THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER: THE MORAL OF THE MODERN VERSION |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 08 July 2011 |
The old version of the
story:
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 version:
Be responsible for yourself!
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The modern version of the story:
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, ABC, and The New York Times 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 MSNBC with the grasshopper and everybody cries when
they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
Code Pink 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, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Louis Farrakhan have
the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake.
President Hussein Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President
Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and Pope Benedict XVI for the grasshopper's
plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Chris Matthews 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 for Grasshoppers Act which Obama
by Executive Order makes 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
Hussein Obama's 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 and ramshackle, the
once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
The moral of the
modern version:
Be careful how you vote in 2012...
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