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The Ant and the Grasshopper (Classic 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 he?s 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.
The Ant and the Grasshopper (Modern 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 he?s 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 others are cold and
starving.
CBS, NBC, 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?.
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant?s
house where the news stations film the group singing ?We Shall
Overcome?. Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God
for the grasshopper?s sake.
Al Gore exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the
ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls
for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his ?fair
share?. Finally, the EEOC drafts the ?Economic Equity and
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.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a
defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a
panel of federal judges that Bill appointed from a list of
single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last
bits of the ant?s food while the government house he is in,
which just happens to be the ant?s old house, crumbles to the
around him because he doesn?t maintain it. The ant has
disappeared in the snow. 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 once peaceful
neighborhood.
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