Two Different Morals!
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!
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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 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 & 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.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants 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 in 2008
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This is dumb
ReplyDeleteFunny story until you mentioned it having anything to do with voting. Why do you believe either party cares for regular Americans? There is no evidence that either political party really cares about Americans. If one of them did care, either one, then real good things could be done in this Country with all of the tax money we pay. Is it just me, or is it obvious that neither party cares about "we the people"?
ReplyDeleteThis is a very good analogy of our country today. One of the main problems is too much government intervention. In our grandfathers time the government would stay out of your business and the ones that worked would live comfortably. The ones that didn't work and were lazy got help from their families.
ReplyDeleteToo much government is not a good thing or we will end up like the communist where the government controls everything. It is almost controling everything now. So when you vote if you don't want everything you have worked for given to the grasshopper vote for smaller government not more and more gimmes if you get my drift.
Guess the "wolves" story doesn't hold up anymore after Bush. This is really lame.
ReplyDeleteannon 841:
ReplyDeleteLiberals believe in entitlements. Conservatives believe in fending for yourself and hard work. Entitlements lead to lazy people. Lazy people lead to welfare. Welfare leads to socialism. Socialism leads to the US no longer being the dominant superpower it is. Back to Europe we go; we left there for a reason you know.
anon 9:27
ReplyDeleteI understand your words. I wonder however, if perhaps even the original distinctions between the two parties have evaporated. I am not so sure the Republicans are "conservative". There is nothing conservative about the past 7 years. I am not saying this as a Democrat. Remember, I am the one who suggested NEITHER party really cares about the people.