Posted on 07/02/2018 7:08:32 AM PDT by gattaca
Two Versions: *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 OLD STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain 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 he is 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 ...'
Occupy the Anthill stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the Green Lives Matter group singing, We shall overcome.
Then Reverend Al Sharpton has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper while he damns the ants. He later appears on MSNBC to complain that the rich do not care.
Former President Obama condemns the ant and blames Donald Trump, President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer exclaim in an interview on The View 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 Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead from a drug over-dose, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2018.
I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant not a grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants.
Don't bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it.
If you think that the 2018 version is too ‘fabulous’, remember how both President Obama and Senator Warren both gave voice to the underlying redistribution message demonstrated here.
1) Obama to Joe (the Plumber) / Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher in the 2008 campaign; “ ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
2) Sen.Warren and later President Obama in campaign speeches; “You didn’t build this!”, with basically an attack on the entrepreneurs who are the ‘Ant’!
Fifty years ago I read an updated version of the Little Red Hen story (Nothing to do with the cafe) in which she is forced to give up all her baked goods to those who do not bake and everyone ends up happy. Then everyone wondered why the little red hen never baked cakes anymore.
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper...
And eats the grasshopper, thus ending his whining....
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The socialist seizes the store. Proclaims everything is free. The shelves are cleared and no funds collected. There is no money, so the next day the shelves are bare. They remain bare.
The socialist rails at the empty shelves and attacks the suppliers. The suppliers are stripped of goods with no reimbursement. They have no money to pay the farmers for more goods.
The socialists go for the farmers. They seize what remains "for free", eat the seed corn, eat the reproductive stock. Nothing is left. The farmer is killed (see South Africa) and the farm seized by the incompetent state.
See Zimbabwe, Venezuela and South Africa for recent socialist failures. Mexico voted for a hard left socialist yesterday. It's now starting on our southern border.
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