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Our Supreme Court Just allowed corporations free rein, Unlimited power to effect our popular elections. This regardless of, Where stockholders may live or stay, Corrupting the whole process of our Reps selections. What this means to you, Is the next Representative you'll see, Will win because of something they're willing to support Which has nothing to do With anything your district or state may need, But rather what they are willing to trade or afford. The health care issue, So important for the huddled masses, Has been watered down to a luke-warm solution Which only helps a few While it has been carefully crafted And it's now a free-for-all spending sensation. What about TARP funds? Where they plan to build high speed rails And other boondoggle efforts in select few states. Oh the wicked tales spun, As the rest of our infrastructure fails. The party in power controls this money and all of our fates. It's a feeding frenzy. Like sharks and piranhas they attack While banks receive bailouts and zero interest loans. Yet there's no money For small and medium businesses to back, And no money available to refinance our homes. State sponsored lottos Disguise that our government now runs numbers, Unfairly taxing the poor at rates not allowed casinos. And these billions earned, Approved by us to lighten education encumbers, Are now spent to line pockets of our bureaucratic foes. Overpaid school boards, Argued to be necessary to maintain top talent, Are often paid in excess of many millions of dollars. This tax on the poor Then replaces the money which once was therein spent, And is now directed into other bureaucratic coffers. Just as 'Freedom of Speech' Should not include corporate protection, And give voice to industry over the individual citizen, Where boardrooms can leech Our power as individuals in an election, To elect candidates who'll answer to our voice of reason. This corruption must stop. Somehow we must step up and make hard decisions And hold those accountable who profit from our demise. Look at what's been wrought By the money changers and corrupt politicians. The powers that be won't easily let go of their prize. We must now find a way To once again become a more perfect nation, To stop all this madness before it destroys what we've obtained. Because like my banks name, Regardless of the political party orientation We must now agree, greed run rampant, can not be sustained.
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