Where were you?
Where were you when $9 billion vanished into thin air?
Where were you when $1.7 billion was paid to some friends to do some housekeeping in the desert?
When the paid mercenaries out-earned the boys and girls doing us proud?
Where were you?
Where were you when a big wind blew, and another $30 billion was given to the same friends, with only a fraction of it trickling down to make any sort of difference?
Where were you when $3 trillion, with a T, in taxes was given back to those who needed it least?
Where you one of them?
Maybe you were!
Do you remember?
It seems to me you've forgotten,
especially when I see you so angry,
carrying signs, making all that hateful noise
at the chance of spending only $1 trillion, with a T, going to a very worthy cause;
to give a chance at life and death relief to the millions who need it.
Is that so terrible?
I don't think so!
It all doesn't seem so terrible to me.
I just don't understand!
You say what we've got is a good thing,
that a clerk in a private company has more expertise than one that works for the government.
Funny... they're both our comrades.
You say it's a good thing when big companies earn their market shares
by doing whatever they have to to earn a profit,
squeezing and squeezing the common people to financial ruin and sometimes even death.
The truth is, they fear competition, from a worthy adversary,
one that just might force them to do what they're meant to do.
I'm not sure what you fear exactly.
Is that so terrible?
I don't think so!
It all doesn't seem so terrible to me.
I just don't understand!
Sources:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1415905/the_bush_years.html?cat=9
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