Robber Baron Bees attacked my wife’s hive a while ago, to rob it of all its honey.  A robber baron is a wealthy person who tries to gain more wealth through unethical means: by robbing people crossing his land, corrupting legislators or, in our case, robbing our hives of honey that is not theirs. Apparently, they are too lazy to work to build their own prosperous hives.

I had always thought that politics was something unique to humans but apparently not.  Although robber barons used to be mostly wealthy land owners, today that has been taken over by Democrats, through extremely high taxes, IRS audits and asset seizures, etc.

Capitalists today are mostly hardworking folks, storing up for their offspring and retirement and providing jobs in the community.  Well, all bees need honey and pollen, their protein source, to make it through the winter. Apparently, some bees are too lazy to work and are like the grasshoppers and want to play all summer.

When fall starts to set in, they know they need a good store of honey and pollen for the winter so they begin to look around and see which bee hives look like easy pickin’s. The robber baron bees hold a conference, pick a hive the scouts have told them is rich in honey or assets, and they are off.

This tactic of robbing from the hard working bees reminds one of the forced redistribution of wealth that takes place in our country every day.   These hard working entrepreneurs who have obviously worked hard to have a good winter store are now being forced to “share the fruits of their labors” with those either too lazy to work or so powerful they just come in and try to take whatever they can.

All hives have guard bees that watch constantly for illegal bees trying to enter the hive.  Once they spot an intruder, they will fight to the death to prevent entry and prevent their hive from being robbed. (We could use some of that on our southern border!)

In order to make it through the winter, our bees need everything they have. They have been diligent like the ant all summer to store up for the cold, cruel days of winter ahead.  Fortunately for the hard working bees in our yard, they have a great bee keeper in my wife who went to bat for them to help them out. Thus, the attack by the Robber Baron Bees was thwarted.

Bees, having been so closely associated with humans for so long, it appears they have finally adopted our political ways.

Diligence is the price of freedom for both humans and bees.  We could take a lesson from the bees about nationally guarding what is ours. The guard bees will bee on duty again tomorrow along with their valiant bee keeper to defend their hard work from the Robber Barons in the Bee Wars!
Diligence is a great tool in your tool box when building The Prosperous life.