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 wellfed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies in the cold.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and wellfed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and FOX 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 it 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."

Talking heads argue that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share."

The EEOC 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 government.

As the story winds down the ant disappeared in the snow. We see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.

Shortly thereafter, the grasshopper is found dead, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.