Coronavirus Came From China

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It would be nice if only once our representatives would address only the issue at hand and not add unnecessary pork that is their own agenda, having nothing to do with the issue at hand.

Coronavirus Came From China
By Franklin Price
03/27/2020

Coronavirus came from China
At least that's what they say
Matters not, where it came from
It's with us here today

Has spread through human contact
For a cure there's a dearth
There are many dead and dying
In most every place on earth

To slow this deadly virus down
We were told to separate
To quarantine in our own homes
Until some future, unknown date

Businesses must shut their doors
Where people tend to gather
It's difficult, to say the least
But you could die, if you would rather

There is no cure, now, that's known
Scientists have joined the fray
To research and discover
What will take this threat away

Meanwhile there's no pay check
For the low and middle class
They did not bring the virus here
Staying home will break their ass

Many live from week to week
There are many cupboards bare
No savings to rely on
Nothing to eat while they are there

The high and mighty, on the hill
Yes, the Senate and the House
Too busy with their politics
And the things that they espouse

Supposed to be there for the people
Whose money has run out
Must pass a Bill to help them
That's what their job now is about

Bills begin with Representatives
They're the closest to the crowd
They beat their chests and posture
But they seldom make us proud

To get money to the people
Who were told to hunker down
Was the plan when they got started
Their results should make us frown

It was their time to put in pork
Add at least a thousand pages
Lost sight of We the People
Made a Bill that now enrages

Congress gets more money
Abortion  has some say
The Center honoring Kennedy
Will get some extra pay

Student loans will be forgiven
Wind and solar power in
With people out there dying
Such acts of Congress are a sin

By the time you read this tirade
The House may have had their vote
Whether it has passed or not
Is not the thing of note

We the People may get money
Then again, well, maybe not
The fighting is not over
For the pork that's in the pot

That the people of the U.S.A.
Always get this run around
Special interest pork is always there
Easier to chew, if it were ground

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Indiana Shaw

Date: 4/6/2020 12:27:00 AM

Sad, that such a virus has had to make governments payout to its own people, but; what is so justly deserved, we have paid in and paid in for such an event, Pay up, and pay up now, before more deaths result from something other than the virus itself . . .