New Aesop Fable of Ant and Grasshopper
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Despite what the demagogic Red, White, and Green with envy Grasshoppers will tell you--you have chooses! You don’t have to follow folly.
The Green, Blue and (repeat "and") Red Hoppers forget you can always move yourself to a different colony, especially if one has provisioned properly for just such a predictable calamitous event/end to one's former habitat.
Metamorphosis doesn't have to be a Kafkaesque nightmare. To the contrary, it is the Gregor Grasshoppers of the world who have cut themselves off from the work and therefore the sustenance of our bountiful land that will fail in the end. And nobody will miss their complaining and rants when they run from the light exposing their errors.
So break the cocoon that binds and blinds. Fly forth Oh butterfly!
Otherwise just grovel in some Mc Larval stage of parasitic existence.
The choice is yours, and the options are fast diminishing.
Gadget from 
has written 916 comments
Poor can vote for Rich to give them money, no incentive to become wealthy. I think Vic is saying, leave the USA or Europe when you get rich.
The big money from Central and South America is put in the USA banks, eventually this will change.
John Tadpole from has written 17 comments
Andy, Great twist to the old fable. I was the grasshopper for a while but I had a family that provided a little guidance and help when winters were coming. Just enough not to die. I slowly learned to adopt a few ant rules. The good news on voting is grashoppers are generally too busy partying to notice and the ants generally trudge to the poles.
tropicalguide from has written 112 comments
This was a wonderful post, meant to read, re read and digested. I remember when I was about 8 years old and needed $10 to buy something or other that friends of mine were buying at the store, I asked my Dad for the money, he asked me if I knew how to spell, said sure "I'm a spelling Bee Champion", then spell this, said my Dad: M O W T H E L A W N R A K E T H E L E A V E S.
All of us worked then and saved our money, when of age in high school we got our Social Security cards and worked after school.
When unemployed in New York worked as a waiter or taxi driver once as a foot messenger in the 60s
When I came into recovery in New York in the 1970s heard people whining they could not find work, a friend of mine whose father emigrated to the US from Jamaica as a
youth and started working as a rag picker, told the poor grasshopper "You can shovel sh-t if it puts food on the table, because you can always wash your hands afterwards"
Wen I left the USA in the 1980s to relocate, I was put into hands of mentors, who thought and acted much like my Father, dishing out tough love when needed. Rear End kicking when necessary.
I always worked, always saved, lived frugally. The way I was brought up.
Often I get nostalgic when you write this stuff on your bloq.
Think most people want to wor, gives one a sense of self worth.
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