I just received this as a forward, and actually read it.
What I want to know, is how can everyone read this and comment on how ridiculous this story is, when there is so much truth presented here?!
This is more of a rant post, but please comment with your opinions.
Have you seen Idiocracy? In it you glimpse our future, and this story foretells our doom!
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 so he laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed but the grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
Moral of the Story: Work hard and be responsible for yourself!
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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 so he 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 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 his group singing, ‘We shall overcome.’ Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid claim 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. Hillary and Barack go on national television agreeing that the plight of the grasshopper is the fault of George Bush.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Directive, retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, since he has not enough to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
Obama gets his old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. 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-provided house the grasshopper occupies (formerly the ant’s house) crumbles because the grasshopper doesn’t maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow.
Shortly thereafter 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.
Moral of the Story: …
Welcome to America. The land of what’s free and the home of the not-so-brave welfare recipients.
lol Wow, so true.