The Ant and the grasshopper

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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  terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once 

     peaceful,  neighbourhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

       Be careful how you vote in 2010.

 

     

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[MIKA27]

Well said Steve.

The last paragraph where the spiders overtake the home, you weren't talking about Kens place were you?

Both politicians however IMO suck!!

[CanuckSARTech]

Seen this in many different versions, floating around the 'net a number of years ago.

Me? I'm a wolf spider, in sheep ant's clothing - someone needs to keep all the other buggies away, so the ants can live in peace.

[zuma]

Unfortunately, Tony Abott is scared of all types of insects (specially ants) and was last spotted with a can of Mortein spraying around his neigbourhood. The greens were also last seen trying to develop cannibalistic behaviours in both ants and grasshoppers.

Moral of the story: Polititians are no messiahs, they will divide society for a vote. However, vote and bear some guilt like any responsible citizen... if you don't vote, don't bloody whinge and blame others!

[Wil]

Hear that poor people? Just get off your arse and be more like James Packer! Stop being frivolous! And to the billions of people living in poverty, get off your arse!

[Wil]

And you're kidding yourselves if you think there's any great difference between Abbott and Gillard (Liberal/Labor). One just happens to be a hell of a lot dumber than the other.

Just an opinion

[MIKA27]

And you're kidding yourselves if you think there's any great difference between Abbott and Gillard (Liberal/Labor). One just happens to be a hell of a lot dumber than the other.

Just an opinion

An opinion I agree with wholeheartedly.

[Ken Gargett]

And you're kidding yourselves if you think there's any great difference between Abbott and Gillard (Liberal/Labor). One just happens to be a hell of a lot dumber than the other.

Just an opinion

i'm really struggling to work out which is dumber.

and to be honest, i'd rather vote for an ant or a grasshopper than either of these two.

and having finally seen the end of the 'fairies at the bottom of the garden' party, the morons called the australian democrats, we now have the greens as an alternative. one would think this not a bad thing but we have one of their number (and this bloke and his party have put him up as a viable potential member of parliament - lord spare us) claiming 9-11 to be an inside job and that the bombs were planted and the planes never hit the place (or some such rubbish).

you would think that any political party worth two cents would have dumped the imbecile immediately. not the greens. provided he said that these were his views and not those of the party, all is well. they want him to represent australians.

informal looking good.

it is beyond me how the human race has survived this long.

[ARRV]

i'm really struggling to work out which is dumber.

and to be honest, i'd rather vote for an ant or a grasshopper than either of these two.

and having finally seen the end of the 'fairies at the bottom of the garden' party, the morons called the australian democrats, we now have the greens as an alternative. one would think this not a bad thing but we have one of their number (and this bloke and his party have put him up as a viable potential member of parliament - lord spare us) claiming 9-11 to be an inside job and that the bombs were planted and the planes never hit the place (or some such rubbish).

you would think that any political party worth two cents would have dumped the imbecile immediately. not the greens. provided he said that these were his views and not those of the party, all is well. they want him to represent australians.

informal looking good.

it is beyond me how the human race has survived this long.

I think this is possibly the worst ever choice offered to the Australian public in an election in the history of this Commonwealth.

Seriously considering informal if I get to the ballot box. Seriously considering not going at all and simply paying the fine for not voting.

What's the point.