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D.Lester Young
Senior Member

since 2001-12-08

Posts 1219
Austin, Tx

0 posted 2002-04-21 01:55 PM

A satire that makes one think of what is going on in the greatness we call our United States. What rules are we passing down in our children when they all want to be CEO’s so they can play in the big game for awhile and have no accounting. This is just meant to make you think and open your eyes. This message will only filter in the backwoods for the powers will never let us display our most important attribute, our minds. My words will die in misery for truth is at times too hard to find and I can only find it in the blessing of one so much more powerful that every politician would vote for him, In the poverty of His words reaching our souls. I am his sinner and kneel only to his respect of humanity. Email this in the newsprint of our times for their in power yet that Microsoft has figured out to stop it from spreading.

Big business gets smaller in numbers
As mergers send workers to the streets
In order to make a profit
CEO’s still make millions as they lose billions

New plants are built on taxpayer money
Bribes are made in order to keep jobs
As candy made to sweeten us is now
Not made in America

Let’s send the CEO’s to the sites
That they exile our jobs to
Instead of palaces built for them in our cities
Let them eat meals on the wages paid for a weeks work

Let them account to us in truth
And not in paperback stories
Ready to be shred before the tax man comes

High finance has become a way of paying politicians
For overlooking common sense
And there is no criminal act to apply
For you are protected from anyone doing anything about it
Just both parties looking into a mirror
Stating ignorance is bliss
Let hope the mob does not learn a lesson
And join this side in a merger

Lifesavers give Enron fuel to run on my Firestone tires
Let Governor’s give tax breaks away as our school need books
As contributions seem to grow on political clout
The yearly salaries of certain CEO’s seems to dwarf state treasuries
As stock holders and voters get a new way of accounting
That puts some of those doing their jobs
Right into the street with no payoffs
And those retirements of workers now pensioning in retirement
Of privledged executives so protected
That the vote is on their side
In shredded documents lawyers said never existed

God save Houston on the pain it inflicted on its own
In corporate greed with no accountability
In a nation so wrapped up in mergers
That if you oppose it
They vote you of the board
And threaten a foreign bank in expulsion
Of business given by a certain CEO
To those following on a tight line
In Enron look a likes

So Houston do it again to us
As you will soon see the repeat
Of lost workers and more CEO profits
For you know she will not stand still
To what she makes
In her own accounting
For she has learned her lesson to well
In how to do business in our times

(Sorry but I have lost my taste for Lifesavors and Compaq computers. My vote has spoken without any power, for what can one man do with just words at his side even if they may be slightly blessed.)
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D.Lester Young (04/21/02)
Tuscaloosa, AL
Copyright © D.Lester Young (White Eagle poetry) http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=5012

[This message has been edited by D.Lester Young (04-21-2002 03:07 PM).]

Mistletoe Angel

Member Empyrean

since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

1 posted 2002-04-21 04:00 PM

(big hugggssssss) This is so very powerfully said, sweet friend, I am speechless after reading this, and have nothing much to say except I wish that those who wish to become part of the business can respectively be asserted of both sides of the issue and know what to expect which the media seems to hide so much of and preconceive the expectations! (sigh) This is powerful, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet friend, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

2 posted 2002-04-21 04:22 PM

Interesting that the major corporations have been downsizing the American workforce for at least the past ten years so they can take advantage of cheaper foreign labor to bring the cost of producting their product down...what is sad is the lower prices are not passed on to the consumers...the profits go to the CEO's and we still pay $20,000 for a new car...James

RosePetal

Member Elite

since 2001-08-26

Posts 2985
South Florida

3 posted 2002-04-21 04:31 PM

i'm pretty speechless at the moment....all i can say is that I am grateful to work for a company that actually passes low prices on to the comsumers.

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