I Hope Your an Ant

THE NEW ANT and the Grasshopper

The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER This one is a little different ....  Two Different Versions ...  Two Different Morals  OL D 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, 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 EasyBeing 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 condems the ant 

and blames 

President Bush 43, President Bush 41, 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.







I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant

not a grasshopper!



Make sure that you pass

this on to other ants.



Don't bother sending

it on to any grasshoppers

because they wouldn't

understand it, anyway