wombat2u2004
02-03-2010, 04:58 AM
I believe there is an important message in this post. It is aimed at Australians, but I believe that this is happening the all around the world.
ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
This one is a little different.... Two Different Versions.... Two
Different Morals.
_____
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!
_____
MODERN VERSION
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.
Channels 7, 9 and 10,the ABC and SBS 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.
Australia 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.' Cardinal George
Pell then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's
sake.
Prime Minister Rudd condemns the ant and blames John Howard, Robert
Menzies, Capt James Cook, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Bob Brown exclaims in an interview on Today Tonight 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, Labor, in conjunction with the Greens, 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 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 terrorise the
ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighbourhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2011.
_____
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.
ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
This one is a little different.... Two Different Versions.... Two
Different Morals.
_____
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!
_____
MODERN VERSION
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.
Channels 7, 9 and 10,the ABC and SBS 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.
Australia 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.' Cardinal George
Pell then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's
sake.
Prime Minister Rudd condemns the ant and blames John Howard, Robert
Menzies, Capt James Cook, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Bob Brown exclaims in an interview on Today Tonight 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, Labor, in conjunction with the Greens, 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 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 terrorise the
ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighbourhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2011.
_____
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.