Subject: Grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident
The 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 OLD 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.
CBC, CTV, Global and City TV 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. Canada 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 CBC News with Peter Mansbridge along with
the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy
Being Green.'
People Against Poverty stages a demonstration in front of the ant's
house where the news stations film the group singing, We Shall
Overcome.
Then Olivia Chow has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake.
Dalton McGuinty condemns the ant and blames Prime Minister Harper,
former Premier Mike Harris, Bill Davis, Joe Clarke, Harold Ballard,
and Conrad Black for the grasshopper's plight.
Ed Broadbent and John Sewell explain in an interview with Wendy Mesley
that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper and both
call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair
share.
Finally, the Provincial Liberal/NDP coalition drafts the Economic
Equity and 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 Ontario Governments Green Czar, Dalton McGuinty,
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 terrorize
and ramshackle the once prosperous and peaceful neighbourhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
The 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 OLD 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.
CBC, CTV, Global and City TV 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. Canada 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 CBC News with Peter Mansbridge along with
the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy
Being Green.'
People Against Poverty stages a demonstration in front of the ant's
house where the news stations film the group singing, We Shall
Overcome.
Then Olivia Chow has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake.
Dalton McGuinty condemns the ant and blames Prime Minister Harper,
former Premier Mike Harris, Bill Davis, Joe Clarke, Harold Ballard,
and Conrad Black for the grasshopper's plight.
Ed Broadbent and John Sewell explain in an interview with Wendy Mesley
that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper and both
call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair
share.
Finally, the Provincial Liberal/NDP coalition drafts the Economic
Equity and 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 Ontario Governments Green Czar, Dalton McGuinty,
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 terrorize
and ramshackle the once prosperous and peaceful neighbourhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
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