Aesop’s Fables and energy

Thomas Paine Caslander of Jefferson
Aesop’s Fables
and energy
To the editor:
    The energy crisis reminds me of Aesop’s fable about the boys and the frogs — some mischievous boys were playing on the edge of a pond, and, catching sight of some frogs swimming about in the shallow water, they began to amuse themselves by pelting them with stones and they killed several of them. At last one of the frogs put his head out of the water and said, “Oh stop! Stop! I beg of you. What is sport to you is death to us.”
   Congress is a bunch of mischievous men and women who are getting rich and amusing themselves by capping our domestic oil supply and killing our economy. It may be entertaining to them to watch us struggle, but if we fall, they will surely become victims of their own mischief,too.
   Conclusion: please stop! I beg of you stop! What is support to you is death to the middle class goose that lays the golden eggs.
   Maybe we need a middle class political party.
Thomas Paine Caslander
Jefferson