The ANT AND THE  GRASSHOPPER    This one is different Two Versions  Two  M orals   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 shiveringgrasshopper  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 shiveringgrasshopper  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'shouse where the news stations film the Black Lives Matter group singing,  We shall overcome.   Then Reverend Al Sharpton  has the group kneel down to pray for the  grasshopper  while he <snip>s the ants. He later appears on MSNBC to complain that rich people do not care.   Former President Obama  condemns the  ant  and blames  Donald Trump, President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the  Pope  for the  grasshopper's  plight.   Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer       exclaim in an interview on The View  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, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  and given to thegrasshopper.   The story ends as we see thegrasshopper  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 thegrasshopper 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 2020.     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.