Vote Carefully

ORIGINAL VERSION:

The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long.

He foregoes little extras and other luxuries and keeps to task.
The Ant continues builds his house and relentless collects supplies for the winter.

The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool.

The Grasshopper laughs. And dances. And wastes whatever supplies it has.

The Grasshopper simply plays the summer away.

Come winter the Ant continues to work hard and is warm and well fed.

The Grasshopper made no plans and has no food or shelter.

So he dies out in the cold.

The End.


MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

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MODERN VERSION:

The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long.

He foregoes little extras and other luxuries and keeps to task.
The Ant continues builds his house and relentless collects supplies for the winter.

The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool.

The Grasshopper laughs. And dances. And wastes whatever supplies it has.

The Grasshopper simply plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference.

The Grasshopper demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed.

While Grasshopper and others are cold and starving.

NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, CNN and countless other media attend the press conference.

They roll miles of film and take countless pictures of the Grasshopper.

They do this in peaceful neighborhood, in front of the Ant’s warm and comfortable home.

Through the window they see the Ant eating at table filled with food.

Americans are stunned by this sharp contrast.

They listen intently to the media.

The media repeats many of the same questions over and over.

How?

How can this be?

In a country of such wealth that 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.

The media again amasses and films the many protesters as they sing, "We shall Overcome."

The agitated and angry group holds up many protest signs.

They are shown in the national media as heroes as they shout messages of hate toward the Ant.

Jesse has the group kneel down to pray to God for the Grasshopper's' sake.

Not wanting to be left out of the spotlight Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry join in.

They exclaim in interviews the Ant has gotten rich off the back of the Grasshopper.
They call for an immediate tax hike on the Ant so there is more money to give to the Grasshopper.

They say everyone should have to pay their Fair Share.

Now the ACLU and the EEOC join forces.

Their lobbyists wine and dine many politicians.

The outcome being new policy is drafted called The Economic Equity and Anti-Ant Act.

It is made retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The Ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of Grasshoppers and other bugs of color.

The Ant tries to argue.

The Ant cites factual examples that it did nothing wrong.

The Ant’s argument fails against the ever growing geo-political onslaught.

The Ant exhausts most of its recourses in this failed cause.

The Ant now has nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes.

The Government confiscates the Ant’s home.

Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the Grasshopper in a defamation suit against the Ant.

The media listens to Hillary as she argues the case is not about facts.

It is about the plight of the Grasshopper and all other bugs of color.

Before the case goes to trial it is ‘tried’ over the media in words and pictures favoring the Grasshopper.

When the case is finally heard, it is heard before a panel of federal judges appointed by special advocate Bill Clinton.


The Ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the Grasshopper now living in the Ant’s former home.

The Grasshopper’s friends and family are eagerly finishing up the last of the food the Ant worked so hard to gather.

All the while his new government house crumbles all from poor maintenance.

By now the Ant has disappeared somewhere into oblivion.



Later the Grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house.

The once proud home is now abandoned and is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful
neighborhood.

The End.



MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote.