Obama recently passed another program that I struggle to understand.
If you are unemployed, there is now a program to allow you to live in your home and NOT pay a mortgage for a year?
Excuse me?
So, those of us who are hardworking, and maybe struggling to pay our mortgage or keep our homes are the ones who get no relief?
Instead, it’s unemployed or people who couldn’t afford to stay in their house to begin with?
When does hard work and savings really pay off in this country anymore? It seems more and more people are rewarded, or at least protected, for NOT being able to pay their bills.
Reminds me of the old parable with the Ant and the Grasshopper.
Not familiar with it? Read on below:
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-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 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