The Ant and the Grasshopper

When I was much younger and just becoming politically aware, I quickly realized that I was a liberal; that I valued humans over corporations and that America worked best when the emphasis was on the most good for the most people rather than just for the privileged few at the top.
However, I would occasionally have one nagging thought that I would never admit to anyone. The one virtue that I admired in conservatives was their fiscal planning and their ability to prepare for the future. They are conservatives after all. It was sort of the fable of "The Ant and the Grasshopper".
Now, with more experience and a little more wisdom, I am perplexed by conservatives today. My first doubt came when I realized that it was the leftys who were concerned with CONSERVING our wildlife and wetlands and the conservatives seemed hell bent on using it all up as quickly as possible. They give various excuses but we all knew it is just greed. Then I also noticed they were disdainful of cleaning up our water and air and landscape and, in fact, resisted efforts to keep it from getting fouled in the first place.
They used to call the Democrats the tax and spend party. It turns out that the Conservatives are the charge and spend party and are sinking us into enormous debt. All of this mega-debt will have to be paid back by our grandchildren. And guess who we are borrowing much of it from . . .the Red Chinese.
This is all topsy-turvy stuff: the conservatives want to spend and the liberals want to save. What a world.
Now I can find absolutely nothing to admire about conservatives except their fabulous ability to convince themselves they are doing it all for America.