[StBernard] The Ant and the Grasshopper

[Westley Annis]

	The Ant and the Grasshopper: 2 Scenarios

 *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.

 MORAL OF THE STORY: 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 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 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, "its 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 and
 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.

 Hillary gets her 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 house he is in, which just happens to be the
ant's old house, crumbling around him because he doesn't maintain it. The
ant has disappeared in the snow. 
	
 The grass hopper 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.