This Dr. Seuss book, "Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose," just popped into my mind. Thidwick makes the mistake of letting a bunch of (initially friendly) freeloaders move into his horns (like a sort of apartment building) and finally nearly gets killed because of them. He eventually dumps his horns, and the increasingly demanding freeloaders, and manages to survive.
The reason I'm thinking about this is because for too long conservatives have been portrayed as mean and stingy. We need to reshape our image and point out that even Dr. Seuss could see the obvious! I'd like to see more images of Thidwick and his very timely story posted around the Internet.