The fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper is a cautionary tale, and dare we say, a morality tale as well?
In it as you may already know, a hardworking and thrifty ant works through the summer putting away food and preparing for winter. The grasshopper, on the other hand, gallivants around making music and doing nothing to prepare nor setting aside any resources for food as it lives the good life in the now.
Come winter, the ant, having prepared, used thrift, and delayed its gratification, is well prepared for winter.
Not so the grasshopper.
Now Elizabeth Warren wants to turn this upon its head.
Warren want to take the saved surplus from those silly little ants who planned, were thrifty and even took out loans for their (or their chidren's) education and repaid them - and then give it to the partying grasshoppers who neither scrimped and saved, nor repaid their student loans.
After all, if you scrimp, save, and delay gratification so you or your children can have a better life later, then according to Warren and her supporters you're just a sucker, a sheep waiting to be sheared of the wool that was saved up for winter to be given to her supporters in exchange for votes.
No thanks.
