NationStates Jolt Archive

ANT & GRASSHOPPER STORY

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 he's 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 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 he's 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
others are cold and starving.

-CBS, NBC, 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
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.

-Tom Daschle & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Peter Jennings
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 panel of federal
judges that Bill appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.

-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 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: Vote Republican

note: The "moral" of the modern tale does not represent my political beliefs -- but when the left presents something as biased as this, the GOP scream "Anti-American!"

Anyone who laughs at this is a nazi

:D hehe

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That explains it exactly and that is why we need George Bush four more years.

The problem with that satirical analogy is that it works in theory but not in fact. This libertarian free market bullshit fails to take into account Human psychology. There are many reasons why a person cant allow themselves to do well.

Anyone who laughs at this is a nazi

:D hehe

I cant imagine anyone would laugh at this for the simple reason that its not funny. Its like Steve MArtin, looke dlike it might be funny but proved to be anything but.

Actually, the rich didn't necessarily work for their wealth, at least not beyond making a profit off the labor of the workers. It is a well-known fact that poor people often have to work multiple jobs to survive. Haven't you heard of people working 3 jobs?

That explains it exactly and that is why we need George Bush four more years.

Oh, yes, please, more Halliburton!
Higher gas prices!
More two-front wars! (no one talks about Afghanistan and the terrible disservice we did abandoning the government there before it was stabilized. We ought to have stabilized it and provided the security they are begging us for before going into Iraq.)

BTW, before you all label me liberal, I don't believe for an instant that the classified documents found in Sandy Berger's home, which belonged to the 9/11 investigation, were there as a result of "sloppiness". If you stole them, Berger, to hide something about Clinton's policies on terrorism -- you go to jail!

Oh, yes, please, more Halliburton!
Higher gas prices!
More two-front wars! (no one talks about Afghanistan and the terrible disservice we did abandoning the government there before it was stabilized. We ought to have stabilized it and provided the security they are begging us for before going into Iraq.)

BTW, before you all label me liberal, I don't believe for an instant that the classified documents found in Sandy Berger's home, which belonged to the 9/11 investigation, were there as a result of "sloppiness". If you stole them, Berger, to hide something about Clinton's policies on terrorism -- you go to jail!

You know how everyone yells halliburton but Halliburton and a french company are the only 2 companies that can do what they do. Now would you rather have the french doing a job that Americans could be doing.

You know how everyone yells halliburton but Halliburton and a french company are the only 2 companies that can do what they do. Now would you rather have the french doing a job that Americans could be doing.
That's what the Halliburton uproar is about. Just so you know.

That's what the Halliburton uproar is about.

What does that mean.

That's...nuts...but...true

Thats very funny. Why? Beacuse it sums up the reason for a philosaphy in under 100 words. Do you really expect to make any argument in something under a paragraph, especially since it has been going on for hundreds of years?

That's what the Halliburton uproar is about. Just so you know.

So some people would rather have the french do the work.

Beautiful. Simply....beautiful.

Beutiful.......simply the best summary of what happens to my father on a day-to-day basis.