The Fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper

This one is a little different.
Two Different Versions! Two Different Morals! (Be sure to read both. )
OLD VERSION:

The ant works hard in the sweltering heat all summer long, building his
house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays
the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. 

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.  
 

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!  
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MODERN VERSION:   

The ant works hard in the sweltering heat all summer long, building his
house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays
the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls NBC and the New York Times and
demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed
while others are cold and starving. 

NBC, The New York Times, CBS, PBS, CNN, and ABC all show up to provide pictures of the
shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home
with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper
is allowed to suffer so?  

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries
when they sing, ' It's Not Easy Being Green .' Oprah calls Obama.

ACORN is contacted by the President and stages a demonstration in front of the
ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome."
Then Van Jones leads the ACORN group in chants of "Down with the Capitalist Ant."  

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the
ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an
immediate tax hike on the ant to make what Biden calls "his fair share."

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity Grasshopper Ant Act
retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs
and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is
confiscated by the government. 

Eric Holder gets his old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation
suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal
judges that Obama has appointed from a list of single-parent welfare
recipients.

The ant loses the case. 

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the
ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be
the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a
drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a
gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood. 

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be sure to vote in 2010!!