Does anyone remember the little kid at the table who anxiously watched as the bigger people passed the serving platters, taking more and more food and leaving less and less?

It was obvious that the food could all be gone by the time that the last person gets theirs.

We have a big table now. We have a lot of voracious eaters who have taken the choicest cuts, scraped off all the melted cheese, and picked off all the cherry tomatoes.

We have people who can suck on a blunt and extract all of the THC, leaving the rest of the people in the room to suck the air in the hopes of  getting a contact high.

Most of the guests are broke and only the rich guests are going to get a buzz on. 

The big Alpha Dogs and Alpha Bitches are not worried. No one wants to challenge them because they will bite on a neck and hold a dog down until the troublemaker submits.

The weaklings and the sucklings are out of luck if all of the meat has been taken off the bone, and there is only gristle and chips of bone left to sniff at..

"And he who knows where the bones are buried generally knows who ate the meat. "

---Edith Allen from "The One Thing"

But the hoggy liars lie more lies and talk and over talk and out talk and deny. They know better than to allow the topic of the missing meat to come up, even in casual conversation. 

They stole the meat. They ate the meat.  They buried the bones, too. 

The gun bangers are pointing and sneering at the gang bangers while the rest of us can only stand there and yell "Don't hog it all!"

We pay into our social security and disability insurance for 24 or 400 years, only to hear that it is a all a Ponzi scheme. The reality is that the money was taken and used.

Someone stuck a big, fat I.O.U. in the cookie jar.

We can only sit there and yell "Don't hog it all!" 

 We swear the oath, then become the property of NATO and CINCPAC and SAC, just to find out that we can't even get compensation for our missing body parts as we were promised. But a newly elected congressman can whine that his medical coverage is not happening fast enough.

"Don't hog it all"

I love Reverend Al Sharpton. His is the best ad on MSNBC. He tells the story of kids who eat the blueberry pie that their mothers would make. When asked if they ate the pie, the kids would lie and say,

"Nooooo! We didn't eat the pie!"

Rev Al talks about the Republicans, who trashed our country and now want to deny it. They have the blueberry pie all over their face.

"They ate the pie!" Rev Al yells

"Don't hog it all!" We yell.

Life is just a bowl of cherries, but only if you get some of those cherries before they are all gone.

If some grownup or another makes sure that everyone gets a handful of cherries, then no one will go without.  The slowest or the weakest will not have to watch while the fastest and strongest eat all of the cherries.

With the grown ups in charge, no one has to yell,

 "Don't hog it all!"