Did you work hard for many years? Perhaps your poured your heart and soul into teaching, business, building, farming, ranching, fashion, sports, or any professional endeavor you may have been born to do. And you saved your money in your 401K. Well, you're screwed. The party people had the right idea after all. It wasn't the industrious ant who saved his food for winter that won, but rather the stupid, frivolous grasshopper who spent freely. Now your earnest savings are gone. You were a fool for being moral and responsible. Think of the fun you could've had with the money you "saved", and was subsequently stolen by money-changing bankers. Because money doesn't really disappear, it merely moves from one place to another. From your investments to theirs. Sorry! Couldn't be avoided. That's the way life crumbles. That is, that's the way you crumble. There are people where I work who don't contribute to a 401 plan at all. They spend every paycheck as it comes in. They live large. They drink. They buy personal watercraft and prostitutes. Their wives buy shoes. Their kids spend lavishly on video games. They all drink the best beer and booze. Guess what? They win. So let this be a lesson to us all. Let's rewrite the story of the ant and the grasshopper in order to bring it into the twenty-first century. As long as there are money-changers among us, that's how it will have to be. So take what you have left and go spend it. Did you like that boat, but thought you better save money for Junior's college? Well go buy the damn thing, Junior's dumb and and he's not going to college anyway. Your kids will be lucky if the learn how to cook chicken at some scumbag's chain chicken joint. It's over, you lose. But you needn't be too sad about it, you can still find the good life. It's true you won't be going anywhere on vacation in the future, but you can stay home and entertain each other by playing the hand-bone and mouth organ. You can turn your mop and bucket into a musical instrument and make your own hooch in the basement. There are roadside freakshows you can create to entertain the people who can travel. The people who got your money. There are many ways you can degrade yourselves for their amusement- such as biting the heads off chickens, snake charming, and of course, your wives and daughters can always draw huge crowds of rich people by putting on tent shows with ponies and other livestock. Call it "Catherine the Great Revisited". The best days of your life are beginning, so enjoy them. | 
