The Ant and the Grasshopper

[Rally Monkey]

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, MSNBC, 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 group singing, We shall overcome.

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down
to pray for the grasshopper's sake.

President Obama condemns the ant and blames
President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus,
and the Pope 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 GreenCzar
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 2012.

[Nightstalker]

I am gonna copy and paste everywhere!!!!!!! ..... LOVED it Rally. The midterms are coming up in 2 months .... another very important vote. If you voted for the bailout .... time to get the hell out.

[Sarge 1/68th Armor]

What kind of dresses are you two wearing??

[Nightstalker]

You lost me on that comment there Sarge are you saying that voting is for women. Lol

[Rally Monkey]

LOL

[Sarge 1/68th Armor]

OH! Someone grew a pair...It's TK time boys

[Lev_Nougol]

George Carlin - RIP