“I will only steal from the Social Security Fund
  if it’s an emergency or if I think I can get away with it.”
      -- King George the Shrub

A great darkness had befallen the Kingdom.  The people had been lulled
to sleep by watching too many episodes of “Survivor”.  Good King William
had gone into exile in the far off village of Harlem.  An imposter, King
George the Shrub had defied the will of the people and stolen the
crown.  The ruthless King Shrub turned his back on the people as his
friend, the wicked Earl of Enron raised the prices on basic necessities
until the pockets of the people had been bled dry.

Since the people had no more money, they became fearful.  This led to a
rapid recession and crash of the stock market.  Since King Shrub owned
all the newspapers, he was able to blame the recession on Good King William.

But all was not yet lost.  There was still a huge Federal Surplus saved up by
Good King William.   King Shrub said that the best way to get the economy
going would be to give this surplus to his rich friends.  King Shrub said that
rich people were much better at spending money because they had more
practice at it.  And we all know that practice makes perfect.

So the surplus was given to the rich.  But the economy just got worse.
Then one day the Congressional Budget Office said that the economy was
so bad that there would be no surplus.  Somehow several trillion dollars
had disappeared and no one could quite figure out where it had all gone.

King Shrub snidely joked that it was good news the surplus was all gone
as now there would be no money to pay for frivolous programs such as WIC
(Aid to women with infants and children).  It was good news that the economy
had collapsed because unemployed people would have to spend so much time
looking for work that they would have no time left to rise up against him.
It was good news that stock prices were falling as it meant he and his rich
friends could buy up even more companies at Bargain Basement prices.

But King shrub still wanted to pay off his rich campaign donors, huh, I
mean friends.   So after gutting the economy of trillions of dollars, then
gutting the Federal Budget of trillions more, King Shrub next set his eyes
on gutting the retirement savings of senior citizens.  King Shrub said that
this was good news also, as he didn’t like the Social Security Fund anyway.
The sooner we got rid of it the better.

Things seemed pretty desperate indeed for the people. King Shrub and his
friends now had all the money and all the power.  They controlled the Press,
the Congress and the Courts.  But all was not lost.  For in the backwoods of
the Internet there was a small website called Buzzflash.com.
This mighty band of merry writers knew that the Truth was more powerful
than a lie.  They fired words like arrows to bring down the greedy giants.
Day after day, they would seek out the truth about King Shrub and post it on
their website.  And their website became like a beacon of light shining in the darkness.

They made it clear that King Shrub was robbing the neighborhoods.  Only he was
robbing from the poor and giving to the rich.  Slowly the people woke up from
their slumber and armed with the truth they brought down the mighty King Shrub.
The people drove him back to his ranch in Toxic Texas and forced him to swelter
in the intense inferno without air conditioning by saying that there wasn’t enough
money to pay his electric bill as all the federal funds were going to the WIC
program, education, prescription drugs for seniors,  and to restore social
security to its former solvency.

When last heard from, King Shrub was said to be enjoying his "working" retirement,
in which he spent much time playing T-Ball by himself on the dusty Texas plains.