An Updated Fable for Our Times

[I received the following in an email. It's an ancient fable - attributed to Aesop - that someone updated to reflect the sad new realities of America's internal policies, the unfortunate prevailing conditions that threaten to destroy this country and turn it from the "land of opportunity," into a third world entity ripe for tyranny! Read'em and weep!]

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

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!

In the America we knew, hard work, sweat and tears were always rewarded. That is how the West, in general, was able to advance from a barbarian past to a prosperous present.

MODERN 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 shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are 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.’

Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant ’s house where the news stations film the group singing, ‘We shall overcome.’ Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.

Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry proclaim 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-At 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.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow.

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 once peaceful neighborhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.

Since 1776, as America threw off the colonial yoke, this country – in spite of its myriad problems, in spite of some serious injustices, in spite of some strong prejudices, has indefatigably striven to overcome them as it welcomed legal immigrants from almost every corner of the globe. The ideas and ideals brought by these individuals, individuals who came here in search of freedom, in search of opportunities, in a quest for better lives for their families, made the US into a superpower.

The liberal elites  (in a witting or unwitting effort to have this country become everything those immigrants fled from), so as to transform our society into their own private fiefdom, want us to feel guilty and give up our freedoms, our rewards, our opportunities, our strength and love of liberty. Will America stand for it? Will we rebel and restore our country, our glory, our power in 2010? Shall we be the worthy heirs to the ideals of the founding fathers or will go quietly into the darkness of diminished freedom, increased taxes, and the nightmare of remembering what once was?

Be careful how you vote in 2010. Be careful how you vote in 2010. Be careful how you vote in 2010.

Chaim