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| DaddysTouch |
on Sat 20 Feb 10, 5:22 PM to DaddysTouch's blog.
Traditional Version
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and gathering supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the whole summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm inside his house and well fed from the food he has stocked up on.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the snow.
Moral of the story: Be responsible for yourself.
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Obama-Reid-Pelosi Version
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and gathering supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the whole 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 to God for the grasshopper's sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames capitalism 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 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 once peaceful neighborhood.
The entire nation collapses, bringing the rest of the world with it.
Moral of the story: If you choose to become a parasite, don't kill your victim.
Edited Sat 20 Feb 10, 5:24 PM by DaddysTouch
| 20 Feb 10, 5:46 PM Amber_Light 3 yrs |
Although I was smiling when reading this, there is also a strange nasty taste left in my mouth. Brilliant read by any standards. The sad part is the people that really need to understand this won't and, the ones that will can't or won't do anything about it.... |
| 20 Feb 10, 6:28 PM Eternallee 2 yrs |
Read this the first time about a year ago, (i have american friends) I agreed with the sentiment then and i still do. They also used the following story as a way to decribe their way on Socialism. **********Pigs and Corn**************** Pigs are running free in a forest. The owner of the forest decides he wants to domesticate the pigs, make them easier to handle. He wants to catch not one or two of the pigs, but the whole herd, but he does not want the pigs to be unhappy. He decides to put a pile of corn in the forest where they can access it. He kept the corn fresh and well stocked every day. The pigs found the corn. At first they are wary snuffling near to the corn. Eventually they taste the corn and find it to be good. They become accustomed to the corn. Eventually the whole herd is eating from the corn every day. The owner erects a fence just off to the right of the place he puts the corn out every day. The pigs are unsettled by the fence, but eventually become used to its presence. They take to eating the corn as before. After a while the owner puts up anotehr fence to the left of the place he feeds the pigs. They again become wary of the fence but become accustomed to its presence quicker than before. The third side of the fence is put into place and the pigs hardly register its presence. when the final piece of the fence is erected the pigs don't even notice. They are now enclose din a pen and their freedom is lost. They are happy as they have their corn, even if they cannot roam the forset as they once did. The only difference between communist and socialist states is that communist subjects know they aren't free, socialist subjects *think* they are. |
