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 th e 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 t o 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.
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.
3 comments:
An important point to remember is that the modern version of the story is based on two false assumptions. First, the poor have created their own situation by being lazy. Second, this happens to wealthy people, hard-working or otherwise. The American dream is not alive and well. The notion that one can simply pick himself up by his bootstraps and make a lot of money so that he can be happy is absurd. Also, claiming that this is a country where the rich are not in control and doing just fine is so incredibly backwards that it hardly deserves a response. I assume that this twisted view of our country is how libertarians sleep at night, but you have to be quite a fool to convince yourself that this is true.
Anonymous poster #1 needs everyone's sympathy. Let's all cry and boo-ho for the poor, pitiful, self-loathing, welfare collecting, worthless piece of shit that wrote that first anonymous comment.
$10 says second poster was either a troll, the author of the blog, or both, which really wouldn't surprise me based on the contents. He provided a perfectly logical argument and responder 2 argued nothing, instead using petty insults to voice the emotions that he feels because he doesn't know how to voice it in logical argument. If the first poster is in fact poorer than you, he certainly deserves to be far richer based sheerly on intellect and cognitive ability.
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