CBS, NBC, ABC, AND CNN SHOW UP

[stronglilly]

The ant works hard in the withering heat, all summer long.

He builts his house and stores supplies for the winter

The grasshopper thinks that the ant is a fool]

He laughs, dances and plays the summer aways, preparing nothing for the

coming winter

Winter comes, the ant is safe and warm

The shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know

why the ant should be allowed to be warm and fed while others are cold

and starving

CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN show up to provide pictures of shivering

grasshoppers, next to a video of an 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 this

way?

Kermit the frog appears in Oprah with the grasshopper

everyone 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 the group singing "We shall overcome"

Jesse then has the group pray for the grasshopper's sake and remind the

group to contribute to his group so that he can 'continue the fight'

fro grasshopper everwhere!

Ted Kennedy and John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Tom Brokaw,

that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the poor grasshopper!

Both call for an immediate tax hike to make the ant pay 'his fair

share'!

Finaly, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity for Grasshopper Act"

retroactive to the begining of the summer

The ant is fined for failing to hire the proportionate number of green

bugs and having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his house is

confiscate by the government

Hillarious Clinton gests her old firm to represent the grasshopper in a

defamation suit against the ant

The case is tried in federal court with a jury comprised of unemployed

welfare recipients

Surprise!

The ant loses the case!

The store ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of

the ant's food, while the government house he lives in (which happens

to be the ant's old house) crumbes around him due to lack of maintenance

The ant disappeared in the snow

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug-related incident

The house now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who

terrorize this once-peaceful neighborhood.

[muchodinaro]

How true! Pathetic, but so true!

[Earnest T Bass]

This one has made its rounds LONG ago. Many years old.

[cgbrown]

Old but sadly true.