The Ant and the Grasshopper
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006 at 4:18 pm by carol
This has been around awhile, but I still enjoy it:
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 he’s 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 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 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, ABC and CNN 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. Tom Daschle & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Brian Williams 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 an 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 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 dependent on the government to provide what you need, and you will be rewarded. If you work hard to take care of yourself and your family, you will be unfairly taxed and vilified.
Permalink
Filed under: Politics, Liberal Insanity, Humor, The MSM, Headlines/Current Events 
Ruth Says:
I enjoyed reading the story of the ant and the grasshopper. There is much truth in it, Of course it is not a matter of color. All the Ants are not the same color and all the grashoppers are not the same shade of “green.”
Most of us who grew up in the South after the horror of the Civil war when most of our schools and farms were destroyed and then the Great Depression know how we worked and scrimpted and saved to be able to help educate our children and have some of the comforts of life in our old age, etc. But God did give us the intelligence and/or the physical strength and/or the “Protestant Work Ethic” to do so. …etc, etc… But the story is a great lesson in that it teaches the imporytance of the “individual responsibility ” which is a Christian concept. The sad thing in our society now is the lack of understanding of how our success came from our Christian world view….