MODERNVERSION:
The antworks hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house
and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopperthinks the antis 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 antshould 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 theant 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 grasshopperand 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 for thegrasshopper's sake. President Obama condemns the ant
and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and thePope for the grasshopper'splight. Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with LarryKing 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 antis 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'sold house, crumbles around them because thegrasshopper 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. MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be careful how you vote in 2018 and 2020