The Ant and the Grasshopper - The NEP Version

For those who have never read this very interesting e-mail. I was telling some of us about it during lunch this afternoon.

Original Version

The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs & dances & 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.

New Version


The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs & dances & 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 others are cold and starving.

TV1, TV2 & TV3 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.

The majority of the Parliament is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can it be that this poor Grasshopper be allowed to suffer so?

Khairy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant's house.

Nazri goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be accorded the same comfort during winter.

Most of the related people criticize the Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper.

The local newspapers (MSNs - MainStream Newspapers) & the Internet are flooded with online petitions seeking support for the Grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance).

The U Must Not Object controlled Parliament immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers.

Krishammudin provide 'More Special Reservation' for Grasshoppers in Educational Institutions & in Government Services.

The Ant is found guilty and fined for failing to comply with 30% sharing. Having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes; its home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by the MSNs.

Prime Minister announces to the whole nation that this is part of the Never Ending Policy and all have to respect, no questions asked and have to follow it.

Many years later

The Ant has since migrated and set up a multi-billion dollar company in its new country.

In spite of the NEP, 100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation everywhere.
With the loss of many hard working Ants who worked very hard feeding the Grasshoppers, the country still remains a developing country!!!

Where will the country be without the ants............................

So.... are you the brilliant hardworking ant or the grasshopper that is dependent on the NEP
and forever hoping for aid???