Trick or Treat!

The kids come up to an old house and shuffle up to the door. It is dark and dusty, and there are cobwebs and spider webs all over.
One of the kids shreiks, "Eeeeww! These are real!
The cutest little girl in the lady bug outfit reaches up to find the doorbell, when she and the other kids realize that there is only a huge, ugly knocker on the ancient ,wooden door. As the tallest kid, in a homemade Transformers costume made of cereal boxes reaches up to knock on the door, the knocker is heavy and makes a loud creaking noise  as he lifts it and lets it fall against the door. Dust and paint particles fall to the ground and all the kids jump a little as the knocker makes an unusually loud boom.
For about ten seconds nothing happens. No one even breathes as they wait to see who, or what, would come to the door.
After another uncomfortable silence they heard heavy footsteps coming slowly towards the door, and when the footsteps fell there was an echo as if they were coming from inside a great hallway or chamber. Finally there was fumbling of locks and latches on the other side of the door and it slowly opened to reveal a man of ghostly white skin and a mane of great hoary hair down to his shoulders.
After the shock of finally seeing the old man the children realized that he was wearing an old red, white, and blue costume that was so old and tattered and dingy that the colors were all fading into a dingy, dirty gray. But after a second it was clear that it was an Uncle Sam costume.
Then the children all sort of choked out a tepid "Trick or treat!"
"Trick or treat, eh?" said the man, in a rather curious Virginia southern drawl as he squinted to look to see all of the children with their parents standing well back behind them.
"You're dressed as Uncle Sam, aren't you?" asked the young boy in the Ninja costume.
"Dressed AS, did you say? Why, my boy, I AM Uncle Sam! And you have come to my home to ask for treats, haven't you?" All the children nodded expectantly, looking to the strange old man.
"Haven't got much of anything for treats,"he said.  He then put his hands in his pockets and his hands poked through holes in his trousers, wriggling his fingers as he did so. The children nearest him stepped back a little when he did this. His old face made a wry grin and he said "But how about a trick, then?" The children, caught slightly off guard, nodded their not-so-enthusiastic approval.
"Well, let's see? Aha!" he said, as he reached into his coat pocket. "I do have something for you kiddies, but first I have to give your folks something." As he pulled his hand out he had several pink envelopes in it. "Young people, this is what grown ups call pink slips. It's what adults get when their employer can't pay them anymore. Go ahead, pass them all out." The kids dutifully handed the pink slips over to their parents. Uncle Sam then looked to the children again and said, "And for you young ones, I have something very special. It's the full bill for your parents' foolishness! You see, they thought that they would never see days like this, with pink slips and such, and they never planned to pay their share when their bills came due, so they just voted to make you little ones pay for it all when you got older. Problem was, they didn't expect the bills to come due so soon, so they didn't leave you with the ability to pay those bills or any inheritance, either. Trick or treat, indeed!"
He chuckled wryly and slowly closed the heavy door, and the latch went click. The end.