The ANT AND
THE GRASSHOPPER fable finds frequent updates on the Laughing Conservative blog. It is really hard for any
hardworking person to have any empathy for the grasshopper, until they learn
that the grasshopper at one time was as industrious as the ant. But the grasshopper was “flighty” and could only afford to rent land owned by the ant. It cultivated fields full of food that
it could have easily harvested throughout the cold winter without hording.
Then the real estate crisis happened.
The
fields that the grasshoppers were sharecropping were foreclosed on by the Ant
Bank. Although the bank had made all
kinds of promises for a future of sustenance, it confiscated the farms of the
grasshopper claiming they were on ant land and with the grasshopper’s poor
harvest prospects they were not sufficient to pay the Ant Bank.
Then
came subsequent years and prosperity returned.
The ant returned with its promises of low rent farm land to the grasshopper. The grasshopper remembered its prior losses to the
greedy ant. It remembered that none the
ants were penalized for false promises to starving grasshopper sharecroppers. In fact, these same ants were doing even better with
all the food they had accumulated from the grasshopper. The grasshopper saw it had little
future. That’s when the grasshoppers became
locust.
