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The Ant & The Grasshopper 2012
If you’re over the age of 30, you probably grew up reading Aesop’s Fables. They are a collection of a short tales intended to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters. The stories are credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller who supposedly lived in ancient Greece between 620 — 560 BC. But it seems they no longer teach those classics in school any more, which is a shame because stories like “The Tortoise and the Hare” or “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” impart many valuable life truths which seem to be notably absent from American culture, given the current direction our nation is taking.
The allegory below has been making the rounds via email and social media, but is too good not to share here. The lessons imparted are a perfect explanation of why Socialism does not and will never work.
“The Ant & The Grasshopper”
Two different versions,
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 OLD STORY:
Be responsible for yourself!
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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..’
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We Shall Overcome.”
Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper’s sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper’s plight.
Nancy Pelosi & 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 & 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 in a drug related incident and the now-abandoned house is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize and ransack the once prosperous and peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be careful how you vote in 2012; the choices you make WILL have real consequences.
Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
Aesop was a very wise man!
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