The Ant and The Grasshopper

I know some of you out there aren't "political" (ie: unconcerned whatsoever about politics)...but for those who are.....or one day will be..........
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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.

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.'


ACORN stages a
demonstration in front of
the ant's house
where the news stations film the group singing,

“We shall overcome.”
Then So and So Preacher has the
group kneel down
to pray to God for the
grasshopper's sake.


President Obama condemns
the ant and
blames President Bush,
President Reagan,
Christopher Columbus, and the Pope
for the grasshopper's
plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid
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 Green Czar
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,
neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing
the rest
of the free world with it.
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Thanks, Jeni :)