The ant and the grasshopper

[rodlonq]

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
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 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.

Channels 7, 9 and 10,the ABC and SBS 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.

Australia 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.'
Cardinal George Pell then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the
grasshopper's sake.

Prime Minister Gillard condemns the ant and blames John Howard, Robert
Menzies, Capt James Cook, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.

Bob Brown exclaims in an interview on Today Tonight that the ant has
gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper and calls for
an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, Labor in conjunction with the Greens draft 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 and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper 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 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 terrorise the
ramshackle,
once prosperous and once peaceful, neighbourhood.


MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in September, 2013.

[Roadie]

Just love your sence of the Ridiculous. Rod you have made my Day. Cheers Roadie.

[flyne]

That's gold love it

[bigbob]

Absolutely hilarious except its so damn close to the truth!

[Stickbow Hunter]

Jeff

[looseplucker]

And Tony Abbott said about both the ant and the grasshopper, "$hit happens" and then only just restrains himself from punching a reporter who asks about it, and then allows Gina Rhinehart to dig out the ant's nest and flog it off to the Chinese and pay bugger all tax on it and puts in an internet connection that relies on a hamster on a wheel to power it and a carrier pigeon for email.

Moral - dont vote for any of them - they are all equally worthless.

[littlejohn59]

[Nephew]

And Tony Abbott said about both the ant and the grasshopper, "$hit happens" and then only just restrains himself from punching a reporter who asks about it, and then allows Gina Rhinehart to dig out the ant's nest and flog it off to the Chinese and pay bugger all tax on it and puts in an internet connection that relies on a hamster on a wheel to power it and a carrier pigeon for email.

Moral - dont vote for any of them - they are all equally worthless.

HEAR HEAR!

[Gringa Bows]

[Jim]

Love it Rod!

[Zega]

The second option the fairy tale passed in Russia in 1917.