Once upon a time, on a farm in Virginia, there was a little red hen
who scratched about the barnyard until she uncovered quite a few
grains of wheat.
She called all of her neighbors together and said, "If we plant this
wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?"
"Not I," said the cow.
"Not I," said the duck.
"Not I," said the pig.
"Not I," said the goose.
"Then I will do it by myself," said the little red hen and so she did.
The wheat grew very tall and ripened into golden grain.
"Who will help me reap my wheat?" asked the little red hen.
"Not I," said the duck.
"Out of my classification," said the pig.
"I'd lose my seniority," said the cow.
"I'd lose my unemployment compensation," said the goose.
"Then I will do it by myself," said the little red hen, and so she did.
At last it came time to bake the bread.
"Who will help me bake the bread?" asked the little red hen.
"That would be overtime for me," said the cow.
"I'd lose my welfare benefits," said the duck.
"I'm a dropout and never learned how," said the pig.
"If I'm to be the only helper, that's discrimination," said the goose.
"Then I will do it by myself," said the little red hen.
She baked five loaves and held them up for all of her neighbors to see.
They wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little red
hen said, "No, I shall eat all five loaves."
"Excess profits!" cried the cow. (Nancy Pelosi)
"Capitalist leech!" screamed the duck. (Barbara Boxer)
"I demand equal rights!" yelled the goose. (Jesse Jackson)
The pig just grunted in disdain. (Jimmy Carter)
And they all painted "Unfair!" picket signs and marched around and
around the little red hen, shouting obscenities.
Then a government agent came. He said to the little red hen, "You
must not be so greedy."
"But I earned the bread," said the little red hen.
"Exactly," said the agent. "That is what makes our free enterprise
system so wonderful. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he
wants. But under our modern government regulations, the productive
workers must divide the fruits of their labor with those who are lazy
and idle."
And they all lived happily ever after, including the little red hen,
who smiled and clucked, "I am grateful, for now I truly understand."
But her neighbors became quite disappointed in her. She never again
baked bread, because she joined the "party" and got her bread free.
And all the Democrats smiled. 'Fairness' had been established.
Individual initiative had died, but nobody noticed; perhaps no one
cared... so long as there was free bread that "the rich" were paying for.
IS THIS A GREAT BARNYARD OR WHAT?
Don't you just LOVE this story? "Not I," said Z.
THANKS, PRISCILLA!! xx
23 comments:
This would be far more funny were it not so darn close to how these slimy liberals want our country to be. It's time to butcher the cow, smoke the duck, roast the pig, and cook the goose. That's the only way they'll be of any use to us.
exactly, pops..Instead, it's OUR goose that's getting cooked. BUT GOOD.
Of course the day came when no wheat was planted because there was no fuel for the tractors at the barnyard.
They had no grain or corn to eat, and the animals became weak. The horse could not even pull a plow.
When the animals asked for food they were told there was none. The rich kept what they had for themselves, and the Little Red Hen and her friends fought over scraps until those too, were gone.
The barnyard became deserted and barren. The Little Red Hen and her friends scattered across the countyside looking for food. Never to be seen again.
Moral of the story; The hand that giveth can taketh away!
Pris
As I am quite fond of saying - "Is it really any surprise that the party that believes taxing employers out of business will pay for unemployment programs also believes that fighting wars in Islamic countries will create terrorists among the people we shouldn't profile at the airport?"
There has never been a rational reason to vote for a Democrat.
Never.
What Pris said.
Soon the shelves will be bare in all the stores and people will be standing all day in long long lines hoping to get the most meager pickings, just as was the case under the soviets.
Great one, z. Papa Frank, yes it is what those slimy liberals want to do to the country, but I would say that those liberals still have a pretty good fight on their hands before they get all our bread.
~ FreeTRhinke says (chuckling to himself, despite the unfunniness of this all-too-true-to-life tale):
Well, we could all stand to lose a little weight anyway, so not eating more than the meager rations a government agency would apportion each of us "according to his need" might actually be a blessing in disguise.
Seriously, it's a perfect parable for what ails Marxism in all it's hideous manifestations.
It should be read, reread, dramatized and set to music often in every Kindgergarten, grade school auditorium and Sunday School in the land.
Conservatives should start a Conservative Story Hour broadcast over "Talk Radio" at an appropriate time every day to help help condition and indoctrinate toddlers and stay-at-home-moms against the prevailing Marxist GroupThink of our age.
Let's see more wonderfully politicized fairy tales. It's a great teaching tool.
Great story, especially where you attached the names! But you forgot the end. The part where the bread supply dwindled dramatically and the farm animals started eating each other.
Morgan
Ouch! That story says it all. I'm so glad I found your blog here. Great stuff!
It's a good story Z, unfortunately i ain't laughing because we the productive are the hens and we have to keep working, otherwise we'll never get anywhere, while the parasites leech off us.
One day we who giveth as Pris says will taketh away, then i'd like to watch the pigs starve or earn their loaves.
Not I, said Edge!
Great post!
.... keep paying for that gas, z.
The hedge fund managers love you.
i heard this on the radio the other day!
wait until they start eyeballing family gardens and telling u.s. we can only grow so much of this and that and confiscate the rest.
i'm with papa frank on this one!
"Nor I."
Next season, the little red hen won't bother planing, either.
Brooke..the 'red hen won't bother planting'...the WHOLE POINT: The government will have to plant, right?
Everybody: I'm glad you like this great piece Priscilla sent me last night! (thanks again, Pris!)
All of your comments on it are enlightening, too. Isn't it sad that we're not laughing and saying (as we would have 20 years ago) "That can't HAPPEN!"
Free Thinker: We SHOULD start a conservative hour of fairy tales like this for kids! or write a book of these.
Remember, Marlo Thomas tore apart Fairy Tales and made Cinderella feel like a darned fool for liking Prince Charming, and Goldilocks would probably find it cruel to kill the wolf which killed her Grandmama today in kids' books, right?
Ducky....Please stay on topic. Is it too painful for you to digest this story and how close it is to your left is doing to our country?
Not I, said the polyhedron!
It's too close to the truth to be funny.
This is a great parable.
Kinda reminds me of the bird feeders we bought recently. When I put them out and filled them with bird seed, the birds came, but they crapped all over my deck. One made a nest in my grill and a cardinal likes to peck at my windows.
If birds were political, they'd all be libtards.
~ FreeThinke
says:
I sent this to my [very conservative] cousin soon after I saw it this morning. He wrote back and said it's an almost perfect précis of Ayn Rand's modern classic Atlas Shrugged.
I'm not a Rand fan, because I remember her acerbic, overbearing personality, militant atheism and anti-altruistic stance too well from the days when she first started to make news.
That said, she was absolutely right in her scathing denunciation and brilliant lampooning of the inevitable fruits of Marxist totalitarianism.
The way Pris and Morgan FINISHED this whimsical satire are chilling, but terribly true.
It seems we're all in accord on this one, except for the guy who changed the subject, because he, apparently, couldn't deal with hard, irrefutable truths.
Man, is this whole thing true....
And with Pris' addition, you feel like being in Mugabe's Marxist Zimbabwe - that is exactly what has happened (and still happens) there.
Mr.Z
I love this story and it is one I use quite often with my son...I hope he has this principle instilled in his mind as he grows and becomes a citizen of contribution instead of one of institution sucking! great post!
Isn't it sad that probably 99% of the liberals out there wouldn't even understand what this story was illustrating?
Good post,Z, and yes, it is exactly what the libs want to do to us.
As for Ducky, I too wondered what this post had to do with gas. Perhaps he was referring to chicken farts.
too good z!
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