Original Blog Entry: The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER This one is different :-)

eddessaknight — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 23:41:13 GMT

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.

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