From: "John Massey"
To: "John & Yvette Massey"
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 8:58 AM
FW: Must Read - The Ant & Grasshopper ver. 2.0
This one is a little different.... Two Different Versions................. Two Different Morals
OLD VERSION
Theant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
Thegrasshopper thinks theant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away..
Come winter, theant is warm and well fed.
Thegrasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION
Theant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
Thegrasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shiveringgrasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why theant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN,and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shiveringgrasshopper next to a video of theant 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 poorgrasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frogappears onOprah with thegrasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
ACORNstages a demonstration in front of theant's house where the news stations film the group singing,We shall overcome. ThenRev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
President Obamacondemns theant and blamesPresident Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for thegrasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reidexclaim in an interview withLarry King that theant has gotten rich off the back of thegrasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on theant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, theEEOC drafts theEconomic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
Theant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number ofgreen bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by theGovernment Green Czar and given to thegrasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of theants food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be theant's old house, crumbles around them because thegrasshopper doesn't maintain it.
Theant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
Thegrasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang ofspiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.
The entireNation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
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.
John & Yvette Massey
1988 Marblecliff Crossing Court, Columbus, Ohio 43204-4966.
Telephone: 614-486-7102; E-mail:
1 comment:
Not bad article, but I really miss that you didn't express your opinion, but ok you just have different approach
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