Friday, January 18, 2013

Death to the ANT

IAT = I am thankful

1. That I can choose.
2. That I can be like the ant.
3. That my future is bright no matter what the grasshopper does.
4. That we are employed.
5. That I'm so blessed.




THE NEW ANT and the Grasshopper,
Two Versions:
 
 
 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, 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...'

Occupy the Anthill 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 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'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:  ?
 


Because the grasshoppers out voted the Ants in 2012.  This will come to pass.  



I've posted this because I believe that you are an ant
not a grasshopper!

Make sure that you pass
this on to other ants. (If you like)

Don't bother sending
it on to any grasshoppers
because they wouldn't
understand it, anyway. Poor dumb grasshoppers.
 
 
 

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