The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he's 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.
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper is completely unwilling to accept responsibility for his actions. He enlists the aid of a minority, rhyming, outspoken, "Spiritual Advisor" with a bad haircut. The "Spiritual Adviser," viewing this as an opportunity to further his own political agenda, calls a press conference demanding to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can it be that, in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Then, a representative of the NCAGB (National Coalition for the Advancement of Green Bugs) shows up on Nightline and charges the ant with "green bias", making the case that the grasshopper is the victim of 30 million years of "greenism."
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when he sings "It's Not Easy Being Green."
The President and his wife make a special guest appearance on the CBS Evening News to tell a concerned interviewer that they will do everything they can for the grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity he deserves by those who benefited unfairly during the Reagan summers, or as the President refers to it, the "Temperatures of the 80's."
The Secretary of Commerce exclaims in an interview 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, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Greenism 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 Clinton gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant. The case is tried before a panel of Federal judges that her husband appointed from a list of single parent welfare moms who can only hear cases on Thursday's between 1:30 PM and 3 PM, when there are no talk shows scheduled.
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 subsidized house he's in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him. He doesn't know how to, or care enough about his home to maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. On the TV, which the grasshopper bought by selling most of the ant's food and the government supplied "allowance," they are showing the President standing before a wildly applauding group of politicians announcing that a new era of "fairness" has dawned in America.
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