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Socialized Security |
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Abe Senior Member
since 2003-05-28
Posts 694Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end! 
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Socialized Security (written 28 years ago) Seems they raise taxes every day They say, to pay the bills To buy tanks and bombs and planes But not to cure our country's ills. If American and down and out And you have really been trying If you seek help, (don't tell the truth) You won't get it without lying. If you're from another nation That's a different story Our government will pay your way You'll get it all for free. If you pay your share for years And then suddenly you find That you're without a job Finding help will blow your mind. They'll say you need a job Before they can lift a hand You must be waiting on a paycheck This, I don't understand. If you had a job and money You wouldn't be in a dire strait But some people are starving And they can not wait. For our lousy, unfair system To get through the red tape The middle classed and poor Get something akin to rape. We hear pleas all the time To help the worlds starving poor I think we should start at home And close our wide open door. Let's take care of our own Or at least give it a try Before our country falls apart And we sit and wonder why. Just think how many of our poor Could be helped and fed For the price of just one bomb Designed to make people dead. I wonder why those people working In tax supported agencies Will give you the run-a-round Until you’re begging on your knees. Too bad they're not required To live as others have to do Taken from their ivory towers To see the world of me and you. You'd think it was their money It's not!It's yours and mine From all the taxes that we pay The way it's wasted is a crime. We sell Russia grain for nothing And let the worlds riff-raff in While we fight just to survive With our patience growing thin. Those who aren't in need Don't care or want to hear They say it's not their concern But they're not seeing clear. Sure, there's a bunch of people Who take all that they can But there's so many more That deserve a helping hand. It seems those who deserve it Are the ones who go without There must be a better way A way to help them out. So those of you in power Had better take an honest look Before all of us peons Try to re-write the book. We're sick of the injustice And not being treated right And let me give fair warning We won't give up without a fight. More than two hundred years ago We fought for freedom and we won It seems we're right back where we started And the battles have just begun. 9-22-82 Del "Abe" Jones Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity. copyright 1984 |
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JL Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128Texas, USA |
"We're sick of the injustice And not being treated right And let me give fair warning We won't give up without a fight." Amen, brother! JL  |
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