THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER Two Different Versions....OLD...

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
Two Different Versions....

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.

MODERN VERSION
Same as above except....

Come winter, an i'll-informed person sees the shivering grasshopper and calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while the grasshopper is cold and starving.
Channels 7, 9 ,10,ABC and SBS show up and film the shivering grasshopper and air the shots next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
And of course after being aired all ill-informed Australia is stunned by the sharp contrast between the grasshopper and the ant.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on all the commercial tv stations 6:30 gossip shows 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 Gillard 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 draft 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 ants 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.

Sound familiar.....