I found this article in a local newspaper and thought it was both humorous and factual. And thought some of you might enjoy reading the "parable."
The ant works hard all summer, building his house and laying in a storehouse of food for the upcoming harsh winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs at him while he skips and hops around all summer. Winter comes and the grasshopper calls a press conference and demands why he is starving, cold and on the street while the ant is warm, well fed and has a home. CNN, CBS, PBS, MSNBC and all the networks are there providing pictures of the poor, shivering grasshopper and they also show a video of the ant, warm, a table full of food and comfortable in his home. American is stunned by the sharp contrast, how can a nation of great wealth allow a grasshopper to suffer so? So Kermit the frog appears on Oprah and everyone cries when he sings, “It’s not easy being green.” Jesse Jackson forms a demonstration with Al Sharpton in front of the ant’s house and the news stations film the groups singing, “We shall overcome.” Jesse and Al has everyone kneel and pray for the grasshopper’s sake. Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, John Kerry and Chuck Schumer all appear on late night talk shows saying that the ant has gotten rich off of the labor of the grasshopper and they 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 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 federal government. Hillary Clinton gets her law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation lawsuit against the ant and the case is tried before a panel of judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients with Monica Lewinsky being the star witness. The ant loses the case. The story ends with the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in-the ant’s old house-crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain the home. The ant has disappeared in the snow, the grasshopper is found dead in a drug-related incident and the house is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood. The moral of the story is be careful how you vote!
The ant works hard all summer, building his house and laying in a storehouse of food for the upcoming harsh winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs at him while he skips and hops around all summer. Winter comes and the grasshopper calls a press conference and demands why he is starving, cold and on the street while the ant is warm, well fed and has a home. CNN, CBS, PBS, MSNBC and all the networks are there providing pictures of the poor, shivering grasshopper and they also show a video of the ant, warm, a table full of food and comfortable in his home. American is stunned by the sharp contrast, how can a nation of great wealth allow a grasshopper to suffer so? So Kermit the frog appears on Oprah and everyone cries when he sings, “It’s not easy being green.” Jesse Jackson forms a demonstration with Al Sharpton in front of the ant’s house and the news stations film the groups singing, “We shall overcome.” Jesse and Al has everyone kneel and pray for the grasshopper’s sake. Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, John Kerry and Chuck Schumer all appear on late night talk shows saying that the ant has gotten rich off of the labor of the grasshopper and they 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 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 federal government. Hillary Clinton gets her law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation lawsuit against the ant and the case is tried before a panel of judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients with Monica Lewinsky being the star witness. The ant loses the case. The story ends with the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in-the ant’s old house-crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain the home. The ant has disappeared in the snow, the grasshopper is found dead in a drug-related incident and the house is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood. The moral of the story is be careful how you vote!
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