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Abe
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since 2003-05-28
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Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end!

0 posted 2006-10-20 07:32 PM




THE LIKES, OF YOU AND ME

I just hope all the People
Find some Logic in their Heart
And use their Minds a little bit
Well now, that would be a Start!

I hope they see the Voting Booth
As a place to show their Will
And belief in either Party?
They'll find they've had their fill?

They are just two Corporations
Or combined, the “R & D”
To Research and Develop
The likes, of You and Me.

They have us Working for them
But give nothing in Return
Seems like after all the History
That someday, we might learn!

Long as we Pay our Taxes
And will send our Young to Fight
And we don't Ask them for Anything
They think things are, “Just right!”

They can Raise their Wages
For the little, they do, Do
But can't raise the Minimum
For the likes, of Me and You.

There's doctors and the druggists
And then, our own FDA
Health Insurance if you're Lucky
Or you have the Bucks to Pay.

Our Schools are in Shambles
Both literally and not
Maybe a Lost Generation
Of, the best we have got.

Not enough Flu Vaccine
Drugs that might make you Die
The Profits more Important
Than the likes, of You and I.

They say they Care about us
But that isn't what they Mean
It's seems one way or the other
We'll get caught in between.

They talk of Peace and Love
About the Young and the Old
They say we're Better and Safer
Though some go Hungry in the Cold.

The bottom line, the Dollar
And the Lies, that once rang True
It's time we all saw the Answers
Asked by the likes, of Me and You.

As long as the ol' “R & D”
And the other Corporations
Can sell us out to the World
Of those other needy Nations.

As long as the Oil flows
And there's Ozone in the Air
With Lobbyists to Pay the bills
We're the only ones who'll Care.

If we don't make some changes
In this Homeland of the Free
One day there won't be any more
Of the likes, of You and Me!


Del "Abe" Jones
Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity.

[This message has been edited by Abe (10-20-2006 08:31 PM).]

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