Two Different Versions,Two Different Morals!
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> THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
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> This one is a little different... Two Different
> Versions!
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> Two Different Morals!
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> OLD VERSION: The ant works
> hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
> house and laying up supplies
> for the winter.
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> The grasshopper thinks the ant
> is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
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> Come winter, the ant is warm
> and well fed.
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> The grasshopper has no food or
> shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
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> MORAL OF THE STORY: Be
> responsible for yourself!
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> MODERN VERSION:
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> 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 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.
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>
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> 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.
>
>
>
>
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> How can this be, that in a
> country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to
> suffer so?
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> Kermit the Frog
> appears on Oprah with the
> grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing,
> 'It's Not Easy Being
> Green.'
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>
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
> Nancy Pelosi
> & John Kerry 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.
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>
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
> 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 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.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> MORAL OF THE STORY:
>
>
>
>
>
> Be careful how you vote in 2010
> & 2012.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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 STORY: Be
> responsible for yourself!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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 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 others are 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 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.
>
>
>
>
>
> Nancy Pelosi
> & John Kerry 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.
>
>
>
>
>
> 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 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.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> MORAL OF THE STORY:
>
>
>
>
>
> Be careful how you vote in 2010
> & 2012.


