Guns and Butter
American politicians are doing
what they always do
Making gunsmoke promises,
buttering up voter you
And the monkey chump voters
fall for it every time ...
banana peel slipping for the lying
When it comes down to choosing
between helping the rich or the poor,
politicians always gon leave open
the tax cut backdoor
Letting the wealthy grin lobbyist in;
and the powerless poor,
their frowning face,
gon always get the slammed shut front door
Politicians telling the desperate poor,
the gov’ment ain’t got the funding no more
Entitlements to ease poverty are all gone,
but subsidies to the rich is permanent strong
They got money for the guns, always
Military defense never loses a dime,
in fact, it always increases every budget time
But the butter money for the poor always melts away,
the gov’ment never got none in reserve for a rainy day
Guns and butter ... which domestic house
gets the revenue bacon,
Pentagon or Harlem?
Disillusioned voters already know the answer,
once their health care and welfare gets cut
They know which pot got the pork butt
Everybody should be more voter aware ...
that you don’t season saltpeter on the meat,
and you don’t cold butter the barrel of a gun
Otherwise the hot bullets burgers won’t taste sweet
when you bite into a sour, empty promise bun
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2017
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