I did not write this. I certainly wish I had. Source is unknown. Maybe a TFL'er out there knows the source and can clue us in.
It's simply too good to go uncredited.
Cliff
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THE CLASSIC 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 he's 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.
THE 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 he's 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 others are cold and starving.
CBS, CNN, NBC, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering
grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with
table filled with food.
America and the world are stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can it be
that, in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is
allowed to
suffer so?
Then a representative of the NAGB(National Association of
Green Bugs)
shows up on Nightline and charges the ant with "green bias,"
and make the case that the grasshopper is the victim of 30
million years
of greenism.
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and
everybody
cries when he sings, "It's Not Easy Being Green."
Bill and Hillary Clinton make a special guest appearance on the CBS
Evening News to tell concerned Dan Rather that they will do
everything
they can for the grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity he
deserves by those who benefited unfairly during the Reagan
summers, or
as Bill refers to it, the "Temperatures of the 80's."
Richard Gephardt exclaims in an interview with Peter
Jennings 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, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and
Anti-Greenism Act."
Retroactive to the beginning of the summer, the ant was 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 ant's food while the government house he's in, which
just happens to
be the ant's old house, crumbles around him since he
doesn't maintain
it, but waits for someone from the government to do that for him.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
And on the TV, which the grasshopper bought by selling most
of the ant's
food, they are showing Bill Clinton standing before a
wildly applauding
group of compatriots announcing that a new era of "fairness"
has dawned in America.
It's simply too good to go uncredited.
Cliff
----
THE CLASSIC 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 he's 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.
THE 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 he's 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 others are cold and starving.
CBS, CNN, NBC, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering
grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with
table filled with food.
America and the world are stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can it be
that, in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is
allowed to
suffer so?
Then a representative of the NAGB(National Association of
Green Bugs)
shows up on Nightline and charges the ant with "green bias,"
and make the case that the grasshopper is the victim of 30
million years
of greenism.
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and
everybody
cries when he sings, "It's Not Easy Being Green."
Bill and Hillary Clinton make a special guest appearance on the CBS
Evening News to tell concerned Dan Rather that they will do
everything
they can for the grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity he
deserves by those who benefited unfairly during the Reagan
summers, or
as Bill refers to it, the "Temperatures of the 80's."
Richard Gephardt exclaims in an interview with Peter
Jennings 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, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and
Anti-Greenism Act."
Retroactive to the beginning of the summer, the ant was 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 ant's food while the government house he's in, which
just happens to
be the ant's old house, crumbles around him since he
doesn't maintain
it, but waits for someone from the government to do that for him.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
And on the TV, which the grasshopper bought by selling most
of the ant's
food, they are showing Bill Clinton standing before a
wildly applauding
group of compatriots announcing that a new era of "fairness"
has dawned in America.