Tuesday, April 24, 2007

The ant and the grasshopper

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 STORY:   Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION:


The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building g 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 others are cold and starving.


CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC 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 this 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."


Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.


Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Larry King 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 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.


Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.


The ant loses the case.


The story ends as 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.


The ant has disappeared in the snow. 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 the once peaceful neighborhood


MORAL OF THE STORY:   Be careful how you vote.


Thanks Paul

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a load of crap.

Anonymous said...

If the Republicans were involved in the situation the home would be abandoned because both the ant and the grasshopper would be in another country being shot at while whatever constitution the ant and grasshopper lived under at home was trampled and broken by George W. and his band of merry men.

Anonymous said...

Well it is true, no matter how much you don't like it.

Yep, you cannot vote democrat or republican... and no one seems to want to vote for a 3rd party.

Anonymous said...

the story reminds me of a certain arab population that gets more international aid per capita then anyone else on earth, blow up everything they can, spend all their money on guns and bombs, celebrate when their own children kill themselves and yet still scream poverty.

Anonymous said...

Modern moral, screw the poor, they deserve it, as long as YOU have more money than you need thats okay, let's go drive our SUV!

Anonymous said...

saw this while going through the archives. obviously too many dumbass liberals are reading this blog! can actually really believe that some dumbass democrat would be better than George W.? Get real! too many americans are living in a fantasy world, things are the way they are because of lazy ass grasshoppers and immigrants. also, there's not a damn thing wrong with having money that one has earned through thier own hard work and just because one has money it doesn't mean they have to take care of everyone else.

Anonymous said...

My generation was regularly shown a slide show of the 'Ant & The Grasshopper' fable as a life lesson to work hard for what you want and plan for the future. I doubt if it would be shown today. And as I see from some of the respondents, the idea of working for what you want and being able to keep what you worked for is insensitive and horrifying.

Think of what this country would be like if everyone was a grasshopper.

Anonymous said...

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