The ant works all summer...
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The ant works all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter the ant is warm and well-fed, but the grasshopper has no food or shelter. Shivering, the grasshopper calls a national press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well-fed while others are cold and starving. All the major broadcast and cable networks show up and provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to film 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? A representative of the NAAGB (The National Association for the Advancement of Green Bugs) shows up on Nightline, charging the ant with Green Bias and 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 everyone cries when he sings, "It's Not Easy Being Green." Celebrity guests say that they will do everything in their power for the grasshopper, who has been denied the prosperity he deserves by those who benefit from our society unfairly. The EEOC ramrods the Economic Equity and Anti-Greenism Act through Congress and the President makes it retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and his home is confiscated by the government. Just before he dies homeless and penniless in a snowbank, the ant has a flash of insight. But we'll never know what it was.
-- Mosley
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? A representative of the NAAGB (The National Association for the Advancement of Green Bugs) shows up on Nightline, charging the ant with Green Bias and 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 everyone cries when he sings, "It's Not Easy Being Green." Celebrity guests say that they will do everything in their power for the grasshopper, who has been denied the prosperity he deserves by those who benefit from our society unfairly. The EEOC ramrods the Economic Equity and Anti-Greenism Act through Congress and the President makes it retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and his home is confiscated by the government. Just before he dies homeless and penniless in a snowbank, the ant has a flash of insight. But we'll never know what it was.
-- Mosley
