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The modern version of the Ant & The Grasshopper

By: izoneguy (Diary)  |  July 24th, 2011 at 11:10 AM  | 

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I am just a humble town crier – this was sent to me by another town crier.
I do not know who originally wrote this. My hats are off to them.
The sentiment I am sure is felt by all other town criers…

Please send it along.

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…’

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where
the news stations film the SEIU group singing, We shall overcome.

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray
for the grasshopper’s sake, while he damns the ants.

President Obama condems the ant and blames President Bush 43,
President Bush 41, 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 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:

Don’t give in to Obama and Be careful how you vote in 2012!!

COMMENTS

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  • acat

    [nt]

  • gekster

    Pretty much sums up our liberal Government in action.

    • izoneguy

      I would love to be able to make these into cartoons for our little kiddies to look at. Imagine all the liberal teachers heads that would explode.

  • lineholder

    But I’ll just add in what I think happens to the ant. This isn’t the first time that the cycle of “the-grasshopper-consumes-fruit-of-ant’s-labor” has taken place. The grasshopper-supporters, who constantly cry “shared prosperity via shared sacrifice”, are actually blood-sucking leeches. This blood-sucking has been going on for years, gradually getting worse over time.

    Anyway, the ant leaves, picks up the pieces of its life, and starts over again. But after having the fruit of its labor consumed so many times…it just takes a toll on the ant. The ant doesn’t bust its chops to set aside for the winter anymore. It does only what is absolutely necessary in order to survive.

    The ant had played its part as a productive member of the bug society. Had the grasshoppers and the leeches respected that, things may have turned out differently. But they didn’t.

    When the productivity of the ant decreases, the leeches in particular begin to whine, groan, moan and complain about it, somehow believing that all they have to do is to pressure, regulate, bully and intimidate the ant back into its productive role.

    But it doesn’t do any good. Enough is enough. And the ant has had enough.

    • izoneguy

      Yes let me think about that….

      Maybe a 2nd part needs to be written….

    • bobbishc

      The ant takes his entrepreneurial instincts off shore, begins producing goods US consumers want and jobs for other ants, all the while waving the middle finger at the elected “leadership” of the US Govt

      • lineholder

        I think the ending I had is where a lot of folks are right now, but you’re ending is direction more people will start going in before too long.

  • runner12

    Would reccomend, but my Ipad won’t let me for some reason. Anyone else have that problem?

    • izoneguy

      after Redstate did sone upgrades. I am running an iMac with the latest software.
      I don’t know if it is a Safari thing?

      • rightwingmom52

        Granted, I’m not on an ipad or Mac, and I’m using Firefox, but I have to hit “Shift” and recommend which then opens that page in a separate browser page showing the recommendation. If I go back to the page where I started and refresh, the reco also shows up. Might be worth a try.

        • acat

          Throws an error message and opens a new window or tab, but it works.

          Neil has mentioned that this is something he’s working on. I think.

          Mew

          • runner12

            command-click on an Ipad?

          • acat

            On the MacBook keyboard, it’s to the left of the space bar, and has a symbol that looks like someone drew a square, then drew little circles at each corner.

            Mew

          • izoneguy

            The Command button is usually on either side of the space bar.
            Hold Command and then click on the recommend tab.

          • runner12

            Thanks also acat, it has been a learning curve for me moving from a PC to a Mac. I am beginning to get the hang of it though.

          • izoneguy

            Until I bought a MAC in 2006 for work.
            I edit video for a living and after a few years I dumped
            all my PC’s. I have 2 iMac’s, a Powerbook, and an iPhone.
            My wife has a mini-Mac and an iPad.
            We are a PC free zone.
            Don’t miss the BSOD at all….

          • acat

            So, I still get the BSOD every now and then, but I no longer get the “The computer just did something weird” calls from home. (the SO and the offspring are not techies)

            Mew

    • luvnthebigsites

      and the first click I just get a page reload, the second attempt gets the job done. (firefox 3.6) Whats weird is that it doesn’t always do that… sometimes it lands the first time. *shrug*.

      (also… Classic izoneguy) ;-)

  • RealQuiet

    n/t

  • amigag

    Of course I recommend this, except getting an XML and other errors when trying to use the “Recommend This” link. Appears to be Script related too. Then is gives me an “Unrecommend” whether I click on OK or use the X to close the error message.

    (XP/SP3) Desktop. Will try on the laptop.

    I see Cryers should be Criers; wondered about that:-)

    amigag

  • izoneguy