The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER...

[Henry Hawk]

                            from an email circulating around....I just wanted to share with my forum friends....               

The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
This one is a little different.
Two Different Versions.
Two Different Morals.




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 group singing, We Shall Overcome.

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright
has the group kneel down to pray 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 and 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 antto 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  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'tmaintain 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 and ramshackle the once prosperous  and 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 2012. 


       

   

[The Troll]

  Well, if you like working for a wage less that minimum wage, like not having Social Security, Medicare, Medicade. no health care, having no union, breathing bad air and drinking bad water, kissing the ass and ring of the super rich and corporations and treated like a slave.

                                                   VOTE REPUBLICAN AND HAVE YOUR POCKET PICKED AND YOUR BODY RAPED.

                                                                             You have just found Hell.

[Henry Hawk]

  Well, if you like working for a wage less that minimum wage, like not having Social Security, Medicare, Medicade. no health care, having no union, breathing bad air and drinking bad water, kissing the ass and ring of the super rich and corporations and treated like a slave.

                                                   VOTE REPUBLICAN AND HAVE YOUR POCKET PICKED AND YOUR BODY RAPED.

                                                                             You have just found Hell.

Not ONE Of the things you said are true.....just scare tactics that have been spoon fed to you for the past twenty years....it is really amazing .... really it is.....

[The Troll]

Not ONE Of the things you said are true.....just scare tactics that have been spoon fed to you for the past twenty years....it is really amazing .... really it is.....

  All you have to do is read Rep. Paul Ryan budget bill and you can read between the line and see what the Damn Republicans are trying to do.  It sure isn't a lie. 

[Henry Hawk]

 

  All you have to do is read Rep. Paul Ryan budget bill and you can read between the line and see what the Damn Republicans are trying to do.  It sure isn't a lie. 

I have read his bill....there is nothing between the lines..it is all pretty clear....and the left has trashed it.  He even said, that it was a starting point, knowing full well that a compromise would be in order.....Ryan is a sharp man.

[The Troll]

I have read his bill....there is nothing between the lines..it is all pretty clear....and the left has trashed it.  He even said, that it was a starting point, knowing full well that a compromise would be in order.....Ryan is a sharp man.

  Yes it was a starting point to the death of all of our safety nets, you know it and so do I.  Please cut the crap Henery.