THE ANT and the GRASSHOPPER: Two Versions

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.

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 EasyBeing Green ...'

Occupy the Anthill stages A demonstration in front of the ant's House where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, We shall overcome.

Then Rev Al Sharpton's assistant Has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper While he damns the ants. The Reverend Al can not attend as he has contractual commitments to appear on his MSNBC show for which he is paid over two million dollars a year to complain that rich people do not care.

President Obama condemns the ant And blames President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope For the grasshopper's Plight…..

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid Exclaim in an interview on The View 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 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 peaceful, neighborhood.

Once upon a time there was a little red hen who scratched about the barnyard until she uncovered some grains of wheat. She called her neighbors and said ‘If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?’

“Not I, ” said the cow.

“Not I,” said the duck.

“Not I,” said the pig.

“Not I,” said the goose.

“Then I will,” said the little red hen. And she did. The wheat grew tall and ripened into golden grain. “Who will help me reap my wheat?” asked the little red hen.

“Not I,” said the duck.

“Out of my classification,” said the pig.

“I’d lose my seniority,” said the cow.

“I’d lose my unemployment compensation,” said the goose.

“Then I will,” said the little red hen, and she did.

At last the time came to bake the bread. “Who will help me bake bread?” asked the little red hen.

“That would be overtime for me,” said the cow.

“I’d lose my welfare benefits,” said the duck.

“I’m a dropout and never learned how,” said the pig.

“If I’m to be the only helper, that’s discrimination,” said the goose.

“Then I will,” said the little red hen.

She baked five loaves and held them up for the neighbors to see.

They all wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen said, “No, I can eat the five loaves myself.”

“Excess profits,” cried the cow.

“Capitalist leech,” screamed the duck.

“I demand equal rights,” yelled the goose.

And the pig just grunted.

And they painted “unfair” picket signs and marched round and around the little red hen shouting obscenities.

When the government agent came, he said to the little red hen, “You must not be greedy.”

“But I earned the bread,” said the little red hen.

“Exactly,” said the agent. “That’s the wonderful free enterprise system. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern government regulations productive workers must divide their products with the idle.”

And they lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who smiled and clucked, “I am grateful, I am grateful.” But her neighbors wondered why she never again baked any more bread.”

THIS IS REALLY DISHEARTENING
This is a very sad story about a bear. Everybody should heed the warning to not feed wildlife, because they become dependent, and cannot forage for themselves anymore. This is such a tragedy, to see what this has done to our country's wildlife! The photo below captures a disturbing trend that is beginning to affect wildlife all over this great country of ours.

Animals that were formerly self-sufficient are now showing signs of belonging to the Democrat Party.They have apparently learned to just sit on their a**es, and wait for the government to step in and provide for their care and sustenance.This photo is of a Democratic black bear in Yellowstone National Park , in Montana . The park rangers have nicknamed this animal 'Bearack Obearma.'

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