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Poems - An Economy Gone Soft
| | An Economy Gone Softby pathos
They’re closing down the factories
Laying good workers off
The sun is sinking on western valleys
The economy is pillow soft
They say the cause is a lack of spending
But we have already spent too much
Our fathers did once preach the sins of excess
But we did not listen we knew more than them
We were raised in the age of derivatives
With the philosophy of no limits
They meant more than breadlines
Austerity and wise prudence.
We scratched itches with a credit card
Took risk on razor sharp edges
Keeping honesty in the dark
Now there’s no money in the banks
They’re talking thrice triple zero losses
No one can tell you where it all went
There’s nothing too in my pocket
But I know where it all got spent.
All confidence has been lost
In the capitalist whose mark-up
Can no longer exceed his cost
Karl Marx predicated it long ago
But he did not know that it would be
Excessive salaries not landed gentry
Where all the profits would go.
The hands of the carpenter are laid idle
While men in suits with Harvard degrees
Construct an economy out of what’s unreal
And the farmer can’t put food on the table
Grain filled silos while grain growers starve
Its business new that is environmental
So the motor car can have fuel to travel far.
Greed turns eyes green and what is seen
Becomes a burning need
Surveying stocked-filled shops
We now must have everything
Maybe when we lose it all
The ribbons, bows and all the fancy stuff
We’ll be thankful for what remains
And whatever we have will be enough.
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"We'll be thankful f
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by scriptum on Friday, January 30, 2009 (22:28:08) |
"We'll be thankful for what remains..." And I wonder just how bad things will get, Pathos. I do wonder.
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I think the light at
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by badmalthus on Saturday, January 31, 2009 (01:21:02) |
I think the light at the end of the tunnel is a long way off.......nice write pathos.
Cheers.......Harry
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I think the light at
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by pathos on Saturday, January 31, 2009 (14:22:56) |
Thanks - your comments are much appreciated. The poem came from the old classical economist view that our excesses come with a price and what we are now in is a generational lesson (and maybe something good will come from it).
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politics are my thin
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by katiep on Saturday, January 31, 2009 (23:47:44) |
politics are my thing... i love them, and as for your poem, the poem aspect is great, but the message isn't... no offense, but the problem is over spending or under spending, its over printing!! dont mean to offend or anything like that, i'll rate your poem a 9 becuase it was great, but to clear things up inflation is our problem, not how much or little we are spending
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politics are my thin
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by katiep on Saturday, January 31, 2009 (23:48:56) |
i meant to say ISNT over spending or under spending bad bad bad typo
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Re: An Economy Gone Soft
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by drachm on Monday, May 31, 2010 (11:46:43) |
In historical irony the American media portrayed McCain as the representative of Big Business while in truth Obama received more contributions from from large corp. then all the presidential candidates in history combined, such as: Drug company Pfizer, Exxon/Mobil, GE, GM, and Godlman Sachs. Interestingly the treasury posts and economic posts in Obama administration are filled with members of the Bilderberg Group. Look at the Waxman-Markey Act where Obama can now give away 85% of emissions permits in 2012 (worth over 60 billion dollars in political pork to his political supporters). The Federal Reserve, Fanny Mae, Freddie Mac are now nothing more than quid pro quo arrangement between politicians and Wall Street financial barons. Big Business wins and the small businesses loss; socialist Saul Alinsky's principals have won out by making the vast corporate wealth as dependent upon government as are the people. Drachm
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