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If you are sitting in government With fattened campaign coffers And your pockets filled up With all the bribes and offers Just be aware that the gifts You take with each breath Are the direct cause of decay And of your constituent’s death. You’re selling off our birthright And that never can be made right. You choose money rather than fight And you make of it a long night. While the police ****** people Who had no guns in their hands You send tanks to small towns And claim it’s all very grand, Because in a police state You can control our very fates And slowly disassemble The future of the United States. Your kids are killing elephants Along with rich kids in their band While ours are shooting innocents In a war-torn foreign lands. The decisions are being made By those who have the wealth And that way there is less reason For any kind of political stealth. You can steal whatever you want And use both hands at once Then, laugh and call us names Like uneducated, fool and dunce. We’re starving while you fatten We’ve no hatches left to batten. From Los Angeles to Manhattan You make speeches in garble-Latin. You’re selling off our birthright And that never can be made right. You choose money rather than fight And you make of it a long night.
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Mar 5, 2016
Mar 5, 2016 at 7:48 PM UTC
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CONGRESSIONAL EDICT Go home soldier; No whining allowed. Shut up soldier; It’s enough to be proud. Be proud you fought To defend our systems. Just stop ******** About things wrong with them. Go away, soldier; So what if you lost a leg? Man up, soldier; It is not polite to beg. You did your bit fine It serves no purpose to lag. Shut up now, for good; Your words seem to be a brag. Bug off, soldier; Yours is an old sad song. Who cares soldier? We’re important, so go along. We have work to do now And laws to undo and make. We have no time for cripples, How much whining can we take? Buck up, soldier; The churches will feed you. Not us, soldier; We no longer need you. You fought for your country In the wars of yesterday. That is an old, sad story. So, just go away.
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Jun 29, 2015
Jun 29, 2015 at 2:56 AM UTC
CONGRESSIONAL EDICT