The Ant and the Grasshopper, revised edition

The following is the Democratic "common good" version of the old favorite, the Ant and the Grasshopper:

Remember the ant and the grasshopper?

OLD VERSION . . .

The ant works hard, in the withering heat, all summer long.
He builds his house and stores supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks that the ant is a fool.
He laughs, dances and plays the summer away, preparing nothing for the coming winter.

Winter comes, the ant is safe and warm.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

The moral to the story being: BE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOURSELF!

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NEW VERSION . . . (sad but true)

The ant works hard, in the withering heat, all summer long.
He builds his house and stores supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks that the ant is a fool.
He laughs, dances and plays the summer away, preparing nothing for the coming winter.

Winter comes, the ant is safe and warm.
The shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and fed, while others are cold and starving!

CBS, NBC, ABC & CNN show up to provide pictures of shivering grasshoppers, next to a video of an 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 this way?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah, with the grasshopper.
Everyone 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 pray for the grasshopper's sake, and reminds the group to contribute to his group, so that he can "continue the fight" for grasshoppers, everywhere!

Ted Kennedy & John Kerry exclaim, in an interview with Tom Brokaw, that the ant has gotten rich, off
the back of the poor grasshopper!
Both call for an immediate tax hike, to make the ant pay "his fair share"!

Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity For Grasshoppers Act", retroactive to the beginning of the
summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire the proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to
pay his retroactive taxes, his house is confiscated by the government.

Hillary Clinton gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper, in a defamation suit against the ant.
The case is tried in federal court, with a jury comprised of unemployed welfare recipients.

Surprise! 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 lives in (which happens to be the ant's old house) crumbles around him,
due to lack of maintenance!

The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found, dead, in a drug-related incident.
The house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders, who terrorize this once-peaceful neighborhood.

The moral of this version? Don't vote for Democrats or liberals.

UPDATE: Be sure and read another version of the Ant and Grasshopper story here.

Also read "The Ant and the Grasshopper, revised edition" at Freedom's Zone which has the Australian version of the story

Comments

[Russ Buchanan]

The Ant and Grasshopper -- The True Story
>
>
> The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
> house, laying up supplies for the winter.
>
> The grasshopper takes a job at Wal-mart.
>
> Come winter, the ant finds he has more supplies than he and his family
> needs, so he invests the surplus in a small business. Due to hard work
> and shrewd dealing, the ant's company grows into a profitable business.
>
> The grasshopper continues to turn in ten hours a day at Wal-mart.
>
> After thirty years of comfortable middle class existence, the ant sells
> the company to a large conglomerate, and retires.
>
> The conglomerate immediately fires all the ant's employees and
> outsources their jobs to India.
>
> The ant's former employees join the grasshopper at Wal-mart.
>
> With the added revenue from outsourcing and downsizing the ant's
> company, the conglomerate is able to purchase even more politicians who
> will work hard against peace, unions, the environment, the poor, the
> middle class, and anything that might inhibit the corporate bottom
> line.
>
> The grasshopper and the ant's former employees demand that Wal-mart pay
> them for overtime but are told they are exempt -- because they are
> 'managers.' The case makes it to the Supreme Court, where Reagan and
> Bush appointees rule in favor of Wal-mart, admonishing the plaintiffs
> to 'go home and feel lucky to even have jobs, what with all the
> outsourcing going on these days.'
>
> The conglomerate also buys CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and many radio stations
> and news periodicals to keep the ants and grasshoppers from knowing how
> dramatically the deck has been stacked against them.
>
> And with demagogic politicians and the media in its pocket, the
> conglomerate finds it very easy to keep the ants and grasshoppers from
> uniting to demand justice by pitting them against each other with
> stories of lazy, irresponsible grasshoppers living off of industrious,
> sober-minded ants.
>
> The moral: Think critically -- and be very careful how you vote in
> 2008.
>

[Russ Buchanan]

The Ant and Grasshopper -- The True Story
>
>
> The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
> house, laying up supplies for the winter.
>
> The grasshopper takes a job at Wal-mart.
>
> Come winter, the ant finds he has more supplies than he and his family
> needs, so he invests the surplus in a small business. Due to hard work
> and shrewd dealing, the ant's company grows into a profitable business.
>
> The grasshopper continues to turn in ten hours a day at Wal-mart.
>
> After thirty years of comfortable middle class existence, the ant sells
> the company to a large conglomerate, and retires.
>
> The conglomerate immediately fires all the ant's employees and
> outsources their jobs to India.
>
> The ant's former employees join the grasshopper at Wal-mart.
>
> With the added revenue from outsourcing and downsizing the ant's
> company, the conglomerate is able to purchase even more politicians who
> will work hard against peace, unions, the environment, the poor, the
> middle class, and anything that might inhibit the corporate bottom
> line.
>
> The grasshopper and the ant's former employees demand that Wal-mart pay
> them for overtime but are told they are exempt -- because they are
> 'managers.' The case makes it to the Supreme Court, where Reagan and
> Bush appointees rule in favor of Wal-mart, admonishing the plaintiffs
> to 'go home and feel lucky to even have jobs, what with all the
> outsourcing going on these days.'
>
> The conglomerate also buys CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and many radio stations
> and news periodicals to keep the ants and grasshoppers from knowing how
> dramatically the deck has been stacked against them.
>
> And with demagogic politicians and the media in its pocket, the
> conglomerate finds it very easy to keep the ants and grasshoppers from
> uniting to demand justice by pitting them against each other with
> stories of lazy, irresponsible grasshoppers living off of industrious,
> sober-minded ants.
>
> The moral: Think critically -- and be very careful how you vote in
> 2008.
>

[That Guy Drinks Beer]

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[me]

The True Nature of Ants.

Ants aren’t singular creatures. They live in colonies by the thousands, even millions at times. If the grasshopper cares to mock them they kill the grasshopper, cut apart his body, and drag it back to the colony. The same is true of the spiders. They work and work and work all summer to collect food for the coming of winter while most other insects frolic, play, and do as they will with little regard for the coming winter. Here’s where the story goes completely askew, the ants die. The ants that worked so hard all summer just died. Scratch that they haven’t died yet. However none of them will see the spring. Why did they work so hard then? They exist for the queen not for themselves. All of that food they collected was to keep the queen and enough ants to tend to the queen alive. Even if the ants survive the frost the workers and warriors have very short life span. Why is this? As soon as the food can’t be collected, and the colony doesn’t need to be defended these lower ants are a liability, mouths to feed, nothing else. All of there hard work won’t buy them their own lives. All that matters for the species is that the queen lives on. It’s much easier to make new workers and warriors when they are warranted than it is to maintain them. The truth is all the spiders, all the grasshoppers, all the politicians, all of the pitiful six O’clock news reports about how the grasshoppers are dieing right here in our own country couldn’t stop the ants from doing what they do.

[SVC Alumnus]

Great story!

[the merry widow]

T'ain't that the truth!
BTW- Thanks for putting me on your blogroll, as soon as I figure out what I am doing, I will certainly return the favor! Will also have a very heavy post, when my editor/proofreader finishes up!
Good morning, G*D bless and Maranatha!

tmw