the ant and the grasshopper
November 6th, 2007 at 6:51 pm . by murderofravens
Sorry I haven’t been around much; personal issues have kept me away from blogging.
I got this from a liberal friend of mine (yes, I do have some liberal friends). He calls me a “neocon”, and compared to him I suppose I am, even though I have always considered myself a moderate. I’m sure some of you have seen this, but under the whimsical humor there is a rather pointed message.
TRADITIONAL 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!
MODERN, POLITICALLY CORRECT 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 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 & Harry Reid
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 and 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, naturally, 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 in 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Smith
“taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood”–Dr. John H. Watson
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welcome back. good to see you
Thanks, Nuke! Not very substantial, I admit. I hope to have something better for you in the near future.
-smith
The Ant and Grasshopper — The True Story
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> 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.
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