Saturday, March 19, 2011

you get what you deserve

you get what you deserve

when more than 80% of your population believes in angels

you get what you deserve

when less than forty percent believe in evolution

you get what you deserve

when you reelect Bush

you get what you deserve

when the Supreme Court is packed with ideologues

you get what you deserve

when you are scared of gay marriage

you get what you deserve

when more than 50% of the population despise unions

you get what you deserve

when you believe in trickle down economics

you get what you deserve

when corporations are people

you get what you deserve

when you fight wars based on lies, Endless Wars! Plural!!

you get what you deserve

did I mention Bush...

Thursday, March 3, 2011

The paradox of theft

Three people are sitting at a table a CEO, a tea party member, and a union man
the CEO grabs the box full of doughnuts from the center of the table and walks away
the union man looks at the tea partier and says
" If we still had collective bargaining we could have at least kept a doughnut"
and the tea partier says " At least we've got our Freedom"

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Saint Ronnie

is there beauty in ignorance
and is it benign
this notion of bliss
just ensures one is blind

and thus easy prey
open wide for abuse
the jackals are ravenous
their needs are profuse

as the rich get richer
the more we must bleed
it's an easy equation
the mathematics of greed

brought to us by Ronnie
the saintly Trojan horse
a conservative icon
who plotted this course

now we're left ravaged
depleted, supine
the right wing agenda
it's all by design

and as we all falter
teetering on the brink
we're taking on water
this nation might sink

do we remedy problems
with solutions well sought
no we reelect culprits
who've been soundly bought

The Supreme Court
The White House
Congress's hallowed halls
all of these compromised
they've got us by the balls!