Hot Coffee and "Beetle" Bailey

Some two summers ago, in the picturesque foothills of Central Massachusetts, a tiny stirring is heard in the woods. The Beetle's are coming the Beetle's are coming was the cry. Not since that fateful ride taken some two hundred thirty seven years ago was a call being resounded with such vigor. The Beetle's are coming the Beetle's are coming. Fast forward two hundred years, the sixties, free love, acid rock and  the Fab Four, aka "The Beetles"  not those beetles who made teenage girls swoon, these beetles made grown men swoon as they envisioned rows upon rows of crisp hundred dollar bills marching in step into their bank accounts. The chief  of the city of Worcester's Parks dept states that we the city has already cut down more trees than almost every Asian Longhorn Beetle on the planet Earth could eat in our lifetime. And that is what has already been cut down in the city of Worcester.The fact that more trees are slated for the ax, leads to some perplexing questions. During the Great War they would have called it war profiteering. That is a process by which one or a group of individuals or companies devise a way by which they can amass immense profits in a ongoing situation which has occurred or been manufactured. Or in simple terms starting a war then getting rich selling guns to both sides.They are cutting down trees with just one beetle hole in it, exclaimed an astonished city employee. It really wouldn't be a stretch to imagine some unscrupulous business man paying some bug guy to sprinkle beetles or larvae over a few city blocks, then watching as the panic sets in and the lumber begins to fall, I mean especially in this economy, even the millionaires are hurting.