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BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE??
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BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE?? |
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Abe Senior Member
since 2003-05-28
Posts 694Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end! 
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BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE?? We send our jobs to foreign shores We sell our ports to foreigners We give the power of freedom So much more than it deserves. To try to help make others free Why should we give up our own Why must we give our leaders The same trust we’ve never known? Then there are the oil companies Exxon one of the worst we know Not one penny paid the fishermen From that spill, so long ago. Technology to replace oil With something cheap and clean Quashed by greedy corporations Most likely, never to be seen. Have you ever gone to wally world Seen, “Made in the U.S.A.”? We don’t care what freedom costs As long as it’s the cheapest way. Young kids and people starving Make the things we like to buy While we can’t find a decent job Because our wages are too high?? We can’t get out of our country Without all those papers and shots But our borders are wide open For all of those foreigner, have-nots. We have those who guard those borders On a very dangerous “patrol” In uniforms “Made in Mexico” Now, that’s what I call, “Control”. Never fear, “Homeland Security” Says, they’re watching out for us And then, when they don’t do it They ask, “What is all the fuss?” We send our Troops into harm's way And then we get them back as “Vets” Try to screw them out of benefits Now, that’s about as low as it gets. We vote in our politicians Then, we ask, “What did I do?” We soon find out they lied again But the dollar’s power, remains true! The lobbyists outnumber us And they will usually have their way For unlike us they get something For all those dollars that they pay. If you can’t afford insurance Or even if you’re one who can You had better not get sick Unless you fit into some plan. And if you need medications Or maybe, even if you don’t You’ll pay for all that advertising Because the drug companies sure won’t! Don’t you try to save your money With cheaper prices that you saw In Canada or Mexico They’ll make that against the law. Our government has a plan To make us well if we get ill But, it seems "plans", “in the works” But, they probably never will. In this richest land on Earth We have homeless on the street The poor, people with the money And the twain shall never meet. Once we were a country looked to As a place of truth and right Now most think us no better Than a thief creeping in the night. Halliburton’s getting billions To build camps for “Insurrection” Seems like most, it will go forward Without very much objection. “By the People”, “For the People” Is what we always used to say But we all heard of, “Big Brother” And looks like, he may have his way. In “The New World Order” There’s a place for you and me But if you’re not one in power You won’t be one of the free. Maybe not too late to fix it But, it’s something we should fear When our freedoms will be lost For, that day is drawing near. 02-27-2006 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 (02-28-2006 11:47 AM).] |
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Edward Grim Senior Member
since 2005-12-18
Posts 1154Greenville, South Carolina |
This is what it's all about. This is how I want to write. Sunshine had told me that your political poetry is amazing and she wasn't wrong. You have summed up all the problems of this country in one masterpiece. I now see that some of the political poetry I have written is the wrong approach. I don't have to be harsh and stern to get my point across; you did it with such ease and grace. I truly admire your thoughts and writing. Thank you very much - Ed "Give me a museum, and I'll fill it." |
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JesusChristPose Senior Member
since 2005-06-21
Posts 777Pittsburgh, Pa |
Since you encourage critiques... Would like a critique on the content of the poem or the rhyming and structure? The content crituque would most likely be better said in the philosophy forum. It's up to you. "If this grand panaorama before me is what you call God... then God is not dead." |
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Abe Senior Member
since 2003-05-28
Posts 694Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end! |
Sure Jesus, have at me but I'm just a poor man's poet so it may not take. And I don't want to be politically correct (whatever that means?). A Philosophy Forum? Del "Abe" Jones Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity. |
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JesusChristPose Senior Member
since 2005-06-21
Posts 777Pittsburgh, Pa |
/main/forumdisplay.cgi?number=8 "If this grand panaorama before me is what you call God... then God is not dead." |
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RennieandBoo Junior Member
since 2003-09-02
Posts 47Florida! |
oh honest abe! it seems you focus in today's news, but the problem is how do we know if its true? haha you even got me rhyming! I'm glad to know someone out there is mad about the mess is going on in our country. Say, have you watch all of the state of the union address? -Rennie |
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StevenS Senior Member
since 2005-09-21
Posts 945L. A. (Lower Alabama) |
Give em hell Abe! :-) |
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