Fat Cats & The Economy

Hello Everybody! The United States of America is a peculiar place!Who would know better than me,Flash Mc Cool,the great hoboclown detective? While the US Congress is debating the bail out of Wall Street and the American financial system to the tune of 700 billion dollars,more important things are going on!
This morning, upon leaving my cave and arriving on the train platform to Center City, I finally saw the Cat Woman up close. After surveilling her for two years as she fed 12 feral cats in a small field beyond the opposite side of the
rail road tracks,I finally observed her close up.She was nervously, frantically and impatiently pacing the platform that I usually stand on to board the R8 train. Her usual daily morning ritual was to exit her old apartment building, grab a bag of dry cat food out of the trunk of her car and feed the already FAT feral cats gathered at their feeding sites.Today, it was none of that as she was now literally on the opposite sides of the tracks-my side where Nature seamlessly meets the world of mankind.On my side,just beyond the platform was the woods, full of Nature's Imperative: The long bare ivory tail of a mole danced amongst the weeds and leaves of the underbrush.Six feet away, under the protective thicket of a thorn bush was a Fat feral cat nursing and grooming her new litter of tan and white kittens. My red nose was put off by the pungent aroma of ragweed.In the center of this scene a nosy squirrel scampered down his tree to see what was going on, as the mole casually and unconcerned went about his search for food. Her ususal routine broken, the Cat Woman continued to pace back and forth. Thinking that she would miss the feral kitten's lair and the nonchalant mole,I pointed them out to her.I also thought she might take a concern and later include them in her next morning's feed.She was as awestruck as I was and captivated by the feral cat, her kittens and the cycle of life.Surprisingly,the Cat Woman admitted that she would really like to get all the feral cats captured and spayed to get them out of the area and into some nice human homes.I told her I've been observing her from afar for years and I complimented her on her fine work in feeding the cats.She smiled and said that she was sad that she could not tend to them this morning because she had, "Jury Duty"...another man-made thing that seemed to pre-empt Nature's Imperative.Somehow, there seemed to be more important things going on than spending 700 billion dollars to bail out an economy's
financial market !