Who Wants To Be Paul

You can't legislate poor into freedom
By legislating wealthy to pay
What someone receives for not working
Another must work for all day
The government can't give away something
Without taking it from some other guys
You can't give to Peter without robbing Paul
No matter how hard Congress tries
And when half of the people are thinking
They don't have to work to survive
Because somebody else is out working
And the government always provides
Then the other half gets the idea
That working's not worth it these days
Because somebody else gets the paycheck
And not working is really what pays
And that my friend is where we are heading
The end of the nation - that's all
You can't multiply wealth by dividing
And nobody wants to be Paul
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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Foulk Avatar
April 18, 2011 at 10:37 AM
such a true write. and i enjoyed this one. Our country needs to get their act together, before we don't have country. this was a well done piece of work.
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