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Premium Member Where Is Saipan, Michigan

One day, I saw a very unusual thing
in a business newspaper I was perusing.
It was a brief story present on the front page.
A taxpayer considered this thing an outrage.
He was a very honest and straightforward man,
an American from the island of Saipan.
This is a territory in the Pacific;
the Marianas Islands to be specific.
He filed his Federal Income Tax return. 
He did not omit anything that he would earn.
The territory was reported as “M. I.”
Some IRS agents soon caught this with their eye.
It appeared that somebody goofed up again.
He got a state income tax form from Michigan.
Form: Rhyme


What If

I look at the future and worry
as shops shut down 
because of the internet
as people lose jobs

because of advancing technology
as companies struggle 
with the future loss of income
as countries struggle with lost tax 

where will it end
will Governments that don't have money
stop paying benefits
will people without jobs fight to survive

Will the rich, use the weapons of the future
on gangs that steal to survive
will a world that's staving 
become a battleground of people

Companies that think only of themselves
keep replacing people with technology
yet with every person that loses a job
that's one less taxpayer to support the country

That's one less consumer 
that can afford products
that's one more mouth 
dependant on your handout

Granted with advancing technology
you are creating more jobs
but what of the people that can't learn
what of the child, that's disabled

what of the adult 
that's intellectually challenged
born to this planet we all have a right to life
our world needs a plan for all people

we need Governments, 
that are not, just for the rich
that are not, just for the poor
that think of solutions for everyone

Governments that can think above the chaos
to make plans and solutions for everyone
they say Governments can't run companies
yet perhaps we should try and try again

working people pay tax
working people, keep your country healthy
working people have the money 
to buy your companies products
Form: Narrative

Life Is a Journey

Vroom vroom! The car stops to a halt.
Ooh! Dad’s home carrying him varieties of groceries.
Broom Broom! I sweep my room,
Collecting trash using a dustpan. Alas! The place is clean.
Vroom! The driver sped,
Crash! The boy was run over. Blood gutted out of his throat as he bled to death, helpless, while the heartless hooligan sped off to a neck breaking speed. All that remains is the indelible mark, now a blackspot as well as a death spot.
Vroom vroom! The mechanic tries the engine,
So old it is after it is drained its oil, after the previous race.
Tick tok as the team tries to reinstate it back to its performance so as to win the piston cup that he so craves it like the next breath.
Vroom vroom! The motorcycle halts.
The cyclist drops off a passenger at the crucial destination.
The latter, who is also a taxpayer, makes her way into the compound regarded a religious ground.
After six days of toiling the Sabbath is sure the best day for her to give thanks to god after a tough week.

Premium Member When the welfare checks stopped

Chanda was in McDonalds, with single mother friends
The radio came on, said now welfare ends.
The ladies panicked, poured onto the street
How could they support kids, and make ends meet?

The Mercedes on the road crashed into the side
The driver had heard the radio, then began to cry.
She ran a fake day care, she sold food stamp cards
Now without income, life would get hard.

Shmuley was reading the Talmud in his house.
Then came in his overwrought spouse.
She said the welfare office had a sign on the door:
The new ruler of America had decreed, no handouts, no more.

No bailouts for bankers, forget farmers aid
Corporations got to make it with no subsidies paid
Pro-bono lawyers couldn't use lawfare the time:
No dubious causes on the taxpayer dime.

Then rioters came out, looking for stuff to burn
They'd never made an honest living, now they'd have to earn
And everyone else, hooked on some kind of handout,
Marched on Washington, to throw the President out.

The President appeared on TV, and appealed for calm
He said he had to do it; our currency was a time bomb.
The debt had reached three times G.N.P.
A worthless dollar in store, and poverty.

“Our debt has grown beyond what dollars can bear,
There's a limit to what the billionaires share.
The printing press runs, but the backstop grows thin:
If we don't stop spending, the dollar caves in.”

But the President was hanged, and a new one elected
Everyone could breathe easy now, welfare was protected.
Back to Talmud, back to McDonalds, back to the slums
But disaster just delayed, and the grim reaper comes.
The grim reaper comes....
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Sinful Politics Condemns God's Word

The Government's behaviour firstly no longer defends our church 
this mockery in itself shows a deep lack of good sense 
or the simple sourced judgement to cast defiance 
within this ruling class displayed
 
Openly liars vulgar hounds with misunderstandings of truthful agendas 
as silver lining shines within their beady eyes split tongues brag 
poisoned two left feet heading backwards chaos screams from injustice

Milking a treasury for all it's worth then rising the pension age
blindsided are the fools whom are unable to see past the sheriff of Nottingham

Bailing out banks without consent and giving the bankers bonuses 
this our rainy day fund feathering someone's nest

We pay through the nose breathing in this capital suffering 
creating slaves illegally burdened citizens are chained 
dipping into pension funds the existence for this illegal action 
hands out always taking never giving 
Such corruption goes beyond unchallenged by lawmakers 
beggars of the very purse strings

15 million flushed down the toilet for paper postal codes 
billions worth of fish harvested out of our Irish sea

Gas and natural resources given away freely 
our sovereignty has been removed bit by bit stolen innocence 
under false ideas stealing our children's future legacy 
leaders without backbones snakes pushing agendas

For free, taxpayer-funded abortions put on the table 
in this bill signed with bloodshed to legalise 
the killing of unborn babies in Ireland of all places 
never thought I would live to see the day

Millions spent on a referendum called choice 
incorrectly claiming murder as just 
to be an important part of healthcare 
our family focus has lost all sense of direction

Challenging the very structure in mum and dad 
to begin with motherhood is the single strongest character 
filled with loving compassion such are the rights removed basically damned 

Every single word into the temple of our origin
death of democracy spilling the most innocent of blood 
sacrificed for the sake of pride our nation has fallen 

No longer united Irishmen and women a land divided 
it is from these spoils of war that's killing our children's legacy


Premium Member Catch-22

Beware the catch 22
You're damned if you don't, and damned if you do.

Take a drug so cancer won't restart
Side effects give you a congestive heart
Thin the blood so a stroke won't begin,
Internal bleeding and you just can't win.

I got a wolf by the ears
Can't bite me yet, but I'm shedding tears.
When I let go, he'll take a bite
I'm losing my grip, I'm turning white.

You're sorry for those single Mothers
Didn't have husbands, just "significant others"
So you subsidize them with taxpayer billions:
Now more on welfare, about six millions.

You need the cops to pursue a story, to prove you're not mad
But the story is extreme, so no investigation will be had.
Between a rock and a hard place, you're stuck in a bind
I don't blame you for going out of your mind.

You need experience to get a job, but there's a Catch22
Without a job, can't get experience, so what can you do?
Life writes riddles that are hard to circumvent
The path you thought was straight was crooked and bent.

Turn to the left and the trouble grows,
Turn to the right and the same wind blows.
So you laugh a little, though you really feel blue:
That's the strange world of Catch-22.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member The Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve is often confused with the U S Treasury,
so I am here to eliminate this confusion with the utmost of clarity.
The Federal Reserve Is Not the U S Treasury.
It is a private owned central bank that has driven the U S Treasury,
into perpetual bankruptcy.
Who funds the U S Treasury?
The taxpayer, you and me.
We also fund the Federal Reserve weekly.
Federal withholding from our paycheck goes to the Federal Reserve directly,
to bail out governments' financing inefficiencies.
The  CEOs and their cronies at the Federal Reserve,
are all enjoying a super rich lifestyle they do not deserve,
provided by the blood, sweat and tears from all of our labors.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Politicians

P utting their own needs ahead of everything
O penly raping the middle class
L iving the lifestyle of royalty at taxpayer expense
I nterested in only that which fattens their wallets
T aking from everyone to satisfy their gluttonous egos
I mage is more important than substance
C ompromising the nation's integrity
I gnoring the needs of their constituents
A busing their political power
N egative impact on the entire nation
S elling their soul for the sake of a dollar.

         The only group of people who can talk continuously for two weeks and never 
say anything. But we, the unknowing, keep re electing them.
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Smartest Thing Obama Ever Said

PREAMBLE
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What I witnessed on October 7 was indefensible. Just to be clear, Hamas are not militants or freedom fighters as many in the mainstream media would have you believe - they are terrorists. Israel is not the ancestral homeland of the people who live in Gaza. These attacks were not an act of war or resistance but an act of evil. Call it out for what it is. Whatever your view is on these disputed territories there is no moral equivalence here. If you remain silent and do not condemn these actions by this despicable terrorist organisation then my moral calculus is very different to yours. 




                            I
Trump cut off aid to Hamas for building
tunnels and missiles but Joetard gave it all back.
So the hostages of war have the American taxpayer
and President to thank for this unholy attack.
                           II
Trump sanctions froze Iranian assets 
and Joe handed it all back for our enemies to use.
But now we watch the rockets' red glare over Israel
as Islamic butchers shout "death to the Jews!".
                           III
Trump signed Executive Order 13769
and built a wall to keep out crime, fear, and hate.    
Sadly Joe ripped it up and tore it down but will God
save America from its sins before it's too late?

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Don’t you miss world peace and mean tweets! I do.

Premium Member Rant Against the Left and Rant Against the Right

I listen to the Leftists
I listen to the Rightists
  They are not among the brightest.

The Leftists want a $15 minimum wage, a guaranteed job
For every wage-earner in the US, be he gentleman or slob.
They want free health insurance, free college tuition
They haven't the slightest economic intuition.

   With all that guaranteed government stuff
   Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer will have it exceedingly rough.

   Though the federal tax form itself will be razor-thin:
   How much do you make? -- Send it all in!  

Of course, those on the Right are not a whit better
When it comes to the President's outrages, they're aides and abettors
His insults, his outright lies, they dismiss as 'inconsequential'--
   As long as stock and bond market gains remain monumental

After much consideration and not inconsiderable thought
I've reached a conclusion, one that's dearly bought:
    A Pox on the Left and a Pox on the Right --
    I'll not purchase a house; I'll not be a renter
    I'll just pitch my tent smack dab in the Center
 

                         May 03 2018
Form: Rhyme

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