The ant works hard, in the withering heat, all summer long. He builds his
house and stores supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks that the ant is a fool.He laughs, dances and plays
the summer away, preparing nothing for the coming winter.
Winter comes, the ant is safe and warm. The shivering grasshopper calls a
press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be
warm and fed, while others are cold and starving!
CBS, NBC, ABC & CNN show up to provide pictures of shivering grasshoppers,
next to a video of an 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 this way?
Nancy Pelosi appears on Oprah, with the grasshopper. Everyone cries when
they sing "It's Not Easy Being Green".
Al Gore stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house, where the news
stations film the group singing "We Shall Overcome".
Barrack Obama & Joel Biden exclaim, in an interview with Anderson Cooper,
that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the poor grasshopper! Both call
for an immediate tax hike, to make the ant pay "his fair share"!
Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity For Grasshoppers Act",
retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to
hire the proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay
his retroactive taxes, his house is confiscated by the government.
Hillary Clinton gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper, in a
defamation suit against the ant. The case is tried in federal court, with a
jury comprised of unemployed welfare recipients.
Surprise! The ant loses the case!
The story ends, as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the
ant's food, while the government house he lives in (which happens to be the
ant's old house) crumbles around him, due to lack of maintenance!
The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found, dead, in a
drug-related incident. The house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of
spiders, who terrorize this once-peaceful neighborhood.
The moral of this version? Don't vote for Democrats or liberals.