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Got this from a friend.  It made me chuckle.  Two different versions, two different morals!

HISTORICAL 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 THIS STORY: Be responsible for  yourself.

MODERN (Progressive) 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 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." The grasshopper  declines a request for an interview with FOX News.
 
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 kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's  sake.

Members of Congress exclaim in an interview  with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off  the back of the grasshopper, and they call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair  share.

FOX News is ridiculed for interviewing the ant.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity  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, his home is confiscated 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 was  awarded (which just happens to be the ant's  former 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 government house, now  abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.

FOX News is ridiculed for airing an expose about the grasshopper's life.

MORAL OF THIS STORY:  Be careful how you vote in 2010 & 2012.