Chillar Gang

The Grasshopper and the Ant

This story has been told in many different ways and often with different characters, but the moral of the story remains the same. The happy grasshopper spends his summer and fall months playing and lounging while the ant works tirelessly to stock food for the approaching winter.
When winter arrives, the grasshopper is left with no food while the ant is fat, happy, and warm in his home, enjoying the fruits of his labor. When the starving grasshopper comes crawling to the ant for food, the ant obliges since he has more than enough.

It's a valuable lesson that illustrates the benefits of hard work, preparation, and saving.
Unfortunately, a true American ending to this story, should it continue beyond the ant's gracious provision of food to the grasshopper, would be that the grasshopper wouldn't learn his lesson. Having no incentive to change his ways year after year, he would instead continue to count upon the ant's annual handouts.

Meanwhile, the hardworking ant would stop having hardworking ant children to help contribute to the cause because he was too busy supporting the grasshopper. The grasshopper on the other hand -- having nothing but time on his hands -- would continue his non-productive habits, and then have and raise lots of non-contributing, non-productive grasshopper children who would also rely upon the hardworking ant's entitlement programs.