The grasshopper and the ant
Ashley Ames, IDS columnist
Every good Republican has heard the age-old grasshopper and ant story. You know, the one where the ant works hard all summer while the grasshopper lays by the pool and drinks Bud Light – or whatever it is that lazy grasshoppers do during the summer. Then, when winter comes, the ant reaps the benefits of his hard labor… and watches the grasshopper starve to death in the freezing cold, patting himself on the back all the while for being such a hard worker. But now the GOP has updated the story – and circulated it via e-mail.
