This one is a little different... Two Different Versions! Two Different Morals!
 

OLD  VERSION:
 
The ant works hard in the withering 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.
 

OBAMA'S WORLD VERSION:
 
The ant works hard in the withering 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 a
press conference and demands to know why the
ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed
while others are cold and  starving.
 
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide
pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to
a video of the ant in his comfortable home with
a table piled high with food. America is stunned
by the sharp contrast.
 
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth
and plenty, this poor grasshopper is allowed to
suffer so?
 
Kermit the Frog appears with the grasshopper on
Oprah and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's
Not Easy Being Green.'
 
Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant's
house where the news stations film the group singing,
'We shall overcome.' Rev. Jeremiah Wright then has
the group curse God for the grasshopper's sake.
 
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 him pay his
fair share.
 
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity &
Anti-Grasshopper 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, interest, fines and penalties,
his home is seized by the Government Green Czar.
 
The  story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing
up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government
house he is living 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 and covered with graffiti,
is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the
once peaceful neighborhood.
 
MORAL  OF THE STORY: 
  Be careful how you vote in 2010.