Responsibility—the ant and the grasshopper
I received the following as an e-mail today and just had to post it immediately. I don’t know the original author. I have put it into my format but otherwise have not changed it. The e-mail:
“This one is a little different. Two Different Versions. Two Different Morals.
Have a great day, Everyone.
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 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 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 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 (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission—my addition) 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 once peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
I’ve sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant—not a grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don’t bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn’t understand it anyway.” (HOW TRUE!—my addition)
Unfortunately, things have become even worse than told in this story. The government still believes that it must “save” all the grasshoppers of the nation because, after all, they are not responsible just irresponsible. The government now believes it must also “save” all those—people and businesses—that have made poor economic choices. Who pays? All those who were “foolish enough” to make good economic choices. Why should they be the only ones to benefit for their correct choices? Why should those who made poor economic choices be held responsible for their poor choices?
It’s always someone else’s fault. Who are those individuals? The ones who made the original good economic choices. Why should they benefit from making good choices?
The moral: It’s better to make poor economic choices and be bailed out by the government than to make good economic choices and to be punished by the government! Welcome to the new “change you can believe in!” The Barack Hussein Obama FANTASY LAND of “FAIRNESS”! It’s only “FAIR”!
I received the following as an e-mail today and just had to post it immediately. I don’t know the original author. I have put it into my format but otherwise have not changed it. The e-mail:
“This one is a little different. Two Different Versions. Two Different Morals.
Have a great day, Everyone.
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 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 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 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 (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission—my addition) 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 once peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
I’ve sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant—not a grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don’t bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn’t understand it anyway.” (HOW TRUE!—my addition)
Unfortunately, things have become even worse than told in this story. The government still believes that it must “save” all the grasshoppers of the nation because, after all, they are not responsible just irresponsible. The government now believes it must also “save” all those—people and businesses—that have made poor economic choices. Who pays? All those who were “foolish enough” to make good economic choices. Why should they be the only ones to benefit for their correct choices? Why should those who made poor economic choices be held responsible for their poor choices?
It’s always someone else’s fault. Who are those individuals? The ones who made the original good economic choices. Why should they benefit from making good choices?
The moral: It’s better to make poor economic choices and be bailed out by the government than to make good economic choices and to be punished by the government! Welcome to the new “change you can believe in!” The Barack Hussein Obama FANTASY LAND of “FAIRNESS”! It’s only “FAIR”!
posted by Christian Gunslinger at 6:52 PM
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