Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Long Story - worth your time.

Sure it came from one of those emails, but sometimes it tells Willy's feelings and Willy has to pass it along.  10-4 Willy
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 & 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 free-loadingfriends 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 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

2 comments:

Sandee said...

I'm always careful Willy.

SO WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IN THE LAST 2065 YEARS?????

"The budget should be balanced,
the Treasury should be refilled,
public debt should be reduced,
the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled,
the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt.
People must again learn to work,
instead of living on public assistance." -- CICERO , 55BC

EVIDENTLY, NOTHING

Have a terrific day. :)

Traveling Bells said...

Sandee nailed it:( Let's have true hope for 2012, and not for obumma!

Enjoy your day...