Long Story - worth your time.

Sure it came from one of those emails, but sometimes it tells Willy's feelings and Willy has to pass it along.  10-4 Willy

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 , 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..'

ACORN stages   a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, We shall overcome.

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright 
has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake. 

President Obama condemns the ant 
and blames  President Bush, 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-loadingfriends 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 and ramshackle, the 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 2012