Sunday, June 21, 2020

The Grasshopper And The Ant

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'

Occupy the Anthill stages  a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the  Black Lives Matter group singing, We shall overcome.
 
Then Reverend Al Sharpton has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper  while he damns the ants. He later appears on MSNBC to complain that rich people do not care.

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