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 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 and 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.
I do not admit publicly to being either an ant or grasshopper. I consider myself to be a BEE. I try to stay above it all, being alert to possible predator birds from above(the IRS), swooping in on me. I go about my business and stick with the workers. I don't associate with the queen as I consider that a dangerous association.
I also don't bow to middle eastern dictators. I take care of my honey and myself. If someone invades my hive, my health care system kicks in, we swarm and sting the invading legislators at the voting booth. I enjoy beeing a free bee. I never take nectar from sources other than natural flowers (I never drink koolaid). I respect the work ethic of the ants, but don't believe in building a home in the lower neighborhoods where illegal grasshoppers can easily move in.
I love this one.
A friend of mine sent me this a couple of weeks ago. She told me that someone she sent it to said it was racist.
I pointed out that THEY were actually the racist since ACORN helps all people regardless of color and they attached an ethnicity to a grasshopper.
Most definitely an ANT. When I was a kid, growing up out in the country, I used to get a lawn chair, position it over a RED ANT bed and watch them for hours. I put numerous dead turtles (found on the road) near them to watch how carefully and completely they stripped all flesh away from the shell, leaving a perfect skeleton. Wow. It was very interesting. If you need to have the flesh removed from a specimen, ants are your best bet.
For those of you who have seen your savings diminish in the past year or two. You can blame the grasshopper enablers in out government, barnyard fwank, chris robs, et al, and fannie-mae and freddie-mac for causing the financial crisis in the first place. Taking from the ants is a time honored democrat tradition to buy votes. They have undermined and destroyed the grasshopper family unit with their policies and instituted margaret sanger's racial destruction policies slaughtering their own prospective supporters in the womb to keep costs down.
So don't be an ant or a grasshopper. BE AN AMERICAN and VOTE THESE GUYS OUT in 2010!!
I use to be an ant. Save, save, save but then life basically kicked my butt and all the savings are gone. Now its not so much that I have become a grasshopper is that I can no longer save like I use to. I am told its called inflation, my dollar doesn't have the same value so it cost more to buy the necessities so there is barely any money for saving. I have been learning how to reorganize my money, priorities, watching where it is going and putting a little more aside.
On another note do you know where the story of the ant comes from? Well, here's one place I found it ....
Go to the ant, O sluggard,
consider her ways, and be wise,
Without having any chief, officer, or ruler,
she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in winter.
How long will you lie there, O sluggard?
When will you arise from your sleep?
A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,
and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want like an armed man.
Proverbs 6:6-11
One thing that the story doesn't mention is that ants tend to bite and tend to gather in groups to take down grasshoppers who get close to their ant hills.
i think i'm an ant. though....this is a real political question isn't it? i'm not sure. as far as i know, i haven't been stepped all over by a slacker.
though i often feel dissappointed when slackers get better grades than me. or actually do their homework when i didn't. but that's not taking advantage of me. that's just trying to help themselves.
idk. i would think illegal immigrants are grasshoppers. and bill gates. DX
I am an ant, and I am still ticked off about the American pple who didn't vote and now we are paying for their appathy by having an Organizer for POTUS!!!
I worked for 44 years so I could retire and live the good life, now we have all this hopey changey crap going on which means everything i worked for to ease my path in old age is going to go to some clown sitting in a recliner smoking dope, shooting up and drinking gin and asking for more. I say hell no, you want what I got, come on over and meet Smith, Wesson and me.
I do not admit publicly to being either an ant or grasshopper. I consider myself to be a BEE. I try to stay above it all, being alert to possible predator birds from above(the IRS), swooping in on me. I go about my business and stick with the workers. I don't associate with the queen as I consider that a dangerous association.
I also don't bow to middle eastern dictators. I take care of my honey and myself. If someone invades my hive, my health care system kicks in, we swarm and sting the invading legislators at the voting booth. I enjoy beeing a free bee. I never take nectar from sources other than natural flowers (I never drink koolaid). I respect the work ethic of the ants, but don't believe in building a home in the lower neighborhoods where illegal grasshoppers can easily move in.
Most definitely an ant....an old fashioned conservative extremist ant that would love to beat all dependable, needy liberal ants right into the dirt! Guns and all!
Have ALWAYS worked for everything I have.Recieved my first paycheck with taxes withheld when I was 8 yrs old....$1 a day for driving a tractor for 10-12 hrs per day.
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A friend of mine sent me this a couple of weeks ago. She told me that someone she sent it to said it was racist.
I pointed out that THEY were actually the racist since ACORN helps all people regardless of color and they attached an ethnicity to a grasshopper.
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If you need to have the flesh removed from a specimen, ants are your best bet.
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And pestilence has invaded our government.
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So don't be an ant or a grasshopper. BE AN AMERICAN and VOTE THESE GUYS OUT in 2010!!
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On another note do you know where the story of the ant comes from? Well, here's one place I found it ....
Go to the ant, O sluggard,
consider her ways, and be wise,
Without having any chief, officer, or ruler,
she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in winter.
How long will you lie there, O sluggard?
When will you arise from your sleep?
A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,
and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want like an armed man.
Proverbs 6:6-11
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though i often feel dissappointed when slackers get better grades than me. or actually do their homework when i didn't. but that's not taking advantage of me. that's just trying to help themselves.
idk. i would think illegal immigrants are grasshoppers. and bill gates. DX
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Hah! A lot of good that will do!
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I also don't bow to middle eastern dictators. I take care of my honey and myself. If someone invades my hive, my health care system kicks in, we swarm and sting the invading legislators at the voting booth. I enjoy beeing a free bee. I never take nectar from sources other than natural flowers (I never drink koolaid). I respect the work ethic of the ants, but don't believe in building a home in the lower neighborhoods where illegal grasshoppers can easily move in.
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I'm voting all conservative in 2010 .......
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