Maybe it's time that Aesop's fable about the ant and grasshopper is updated for modern times:
The ant works hard every day during the summer, building his house and storing food for the winter. The grasshopper, on the other hand, watches the ant with amusement and prefers to sing and dance, putting nothing away for the winter ahead.
When the winter comes, the grasshopper has nothing to eat and becomes desperate. he elects a president who promises that spreading the food around is good for everyone. The president demonizes the ant for being greedy and asks how he can live with himself when so many others have so little. An executive order is signed demanding that the ant turn over 50 percent of his food supply to the government. The grasshopper laughs and plays the rest of the winter, getting fat on the ant's assets. The ant is depressed and resentful.
The next summer the ant stops preparing his home and storing his food and instead joins the grasshopper, singing and dancing all day. Unfortunately, all o fthe other ants make the same decision. The next winter, with no one left to exploit, the grasshoppers and ants all die of cold and hunger.
From Glenn Beck "Broke" (2010)
