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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.
MODERN 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 pl ays 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 others are 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.'
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of
the ant 's house where the news stations film the group
singing, 'We shall overcome.' Jesse then has the group
kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's
sake.
Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry 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.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing
up the last bits of the ants food while the government
house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old
house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
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 once peaceful neighborhood.
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.
MODERN 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 pl ays 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 others are 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.'
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of
the ant 's house where the news stations film the group
singing, 'We shall overcome.' Jesse then has the group
kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's
sake.
Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry 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.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing
up the last bits of the ants food while the government
house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old
house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
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 once peaceful neighborhood.
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