The middle class ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The rich grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the
summer away.
Come winter the over worked ant falls ill and is rushed to the hospital, diagnosis brain cancer.
The insurance company categorizes the ant’s brain cancer as a preexisting condition and refuse to pay. The hospital bills the ant for 2 million dollars.
The ant has trouble recalling his hospital visit, but expects his son home soon to straighten all this out.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper knocks on the ant’s door looking for payment.
The grasshopper father, as it turns out, owns several hospitals.
The ant offers to hand over his winter supplies to the grasshopper in partial payment for the hospital bill. The grasshopper demands full payment and orders the sheriff to confiscate the ant’s house and his winter supplies.
The homeless ant builds a small outdoor fire, using the last of the wood his son chopped,
His son will be home soon, the ant thinks wistfully.
As the last of the embers dies, a military truck drives by, tossing his son’s body bag into the winter air.
The ant gathers his son by his side, attempting to shelter his son from the icy wind.
The ant’s heart warms with his son so near, but soon the ant meets his moments end.
ABC, NBC, PBS, CNN, and CBS rush to Paris Hilton side as she announces her marriage to the grasshopper. Hospital beds, as it turns out, are more lucrative than hotel beds.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008
