OLD VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat, all summer long, building its house and storing food for the winter. The grasshopper thought the ant was a fool, and laughed and danced, gave no thought to the future, and played the summer away. Come winter, the ant is home, warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, and dies out in the cold. Moral? Be responsible, protect yourself, not only with food and shelter, but save in silver and gold, which will always be valuable, just like food and shelter, when inflation and bad times come. The ant had no idea of money or inflation, but it did the best it could, with the foresight nature provided.
MODERN VERSION
The ant worked hard all summer, stored food and supplies for the winter. Comes winter, and the ant is well fed, housed, and warm. The grasshopper thinks the ant was a fool, and he laughed and danced and played all summer. Come winter, the miserable, homeless, shivering, hungry, grasshopper, calls a press conference, demanding to know why the ant should be warm, well fed, and have a home, while he is homeless, freezing and starving? After all, we’re both American insects. CBS, NBC, and CNN show up at the press conference, take pictures of the homeless, freezing, starving grasshopper, and also show the comfortable ant in its home, well fed, warm, and very happy.
The shrinking number of Americans, who still watch CBS, NBC, and CNN, are stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, in a nation with so much wealth? A movement is begun, to help the poor grasshoppers and their ilk. Democrats in the House, pass a tax increase to help all disenfranchised insects, by giving them aid, in the form of food stamps, public insect housing, and all that would make insects happy. After all, it will just cost just a few bits of food for each insect aided. The new law is called the ETFIA, or “Equal Treatment for Insects Act,” retroactive to the beginning of summer. It was passed by a Democrat controlled Congress and signed by a Democrat President. The MORAL? Worry not about your future, as government will care for you. Save in dollars and pieces of paper with writing on them, and even though money will lose its purchasing power, but government will print more to make every insect equal. After all, there are trillions of insects and equally intelligent humans on Earth, for governments to care for, which is never enough to balance their budgets, resulting in world-wide inflation.
The story ends, as the new law gave the grasshopper and its free-loading fellow insects, the ant’s home and food, which of course they ate all of, and took little care of the ant’s ex-home, so it crumbled. The land was used to build new public insect housing, which ruined the neighborhood.
Naturally, insects cannot purchase inflation insurance in the form of silver and gold, but all birds, insects, and animals of all kinds, care for their future by working hard all summer, in preparation for winter. Even bears give birth while hibernating. Nature has provided for all living creatures, the inherent desire to care for their offspring, prepare for hard times such as weather, and allow the weaker and sick to die and not procreate. Humans have never yet learned the last part.
Politicians tax the rich to support the poor, and even Jesus said that, “The poor will always be with us.” The grasshopper, like Democrats and far too many Republicans, got us where we are now, and that is $37 trillion in debt, which is impossible to ever repay, other than with Monopoly money we now have, and which will continue to be printed and used to pay ever increasing bills created by politicians and bureaucrats. Smart people have to use their intelligence to prepare for the future, as they have lost the instinct given to other living creatures. Animals’ insurance is their limited intellect and abundance of instinct. Humans must use logic to preserve themselves.
Charles Dickens, in “David Copperfield” wrote: ”Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditures nineteen six: Result- Happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditures twenty pounds ought six, and the result is misery.”
Believe it or not, the father of inflation, FDR, in a radio speech on July 30, 1932, said: ”Any government, like any family, can for a year, spend a little more than it earns, but you and I know that a continuance of that habit, means the poorhouse.”
One of the great observations of most historians, is that “History always repeats itself.” As I write this, I just forwarded to a hundred clients I send stuff to, a 40 minute detailed account of “Black Friday,” and the 1929 crash, which came close to destroying America and the world. Insects and the animal world know what their future weather will bring, and they prepare for it. Most humans; and not just Americans, believe in government lies, and save in its paper promises, backed by thin air, and even more stupid others, have bought into bit coins, backed by not even thin air. I hope your Thanksgiving was joyous!
-Don Stott don@coloradogold.com