In the United States the richest
1% of the population hold
38.6% of the wealth…what’s best
Compared to a decade ago
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Back before the 2007 recession
That same top group held 33.7%
Know that, and I’ll ask you a question
Do they need a tax cut of even a cent?
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Consider– That 1% group at the top
Have more than we 90% at back of the line
Money never “trickles down”–so stop
Believing it as your wealth declines
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As you struggle to pay for food and rent
Know the gap: between 10% wealthiest
And the middle class is over 1000%
1000 more for the top 1%… greed at it’s best
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When they take tax cuts for themselves soon
And rob us of our health care
Steal retirement pensions and 401Ks
Think about those CEOs who dare
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To earn in a single hour
What their average employee
Néophytes with no earning power
Must work over a month to see
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When you pull out your credit card to buy
Your groceries for the week
Remember the tax cut the GOP try
To give the rich– whose donations they seek
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Owed by we fools the 90% who pay tax
73% of the debt, the nations bank notes
Those whores who won’t guard our backs
Know their names when you cast your votes
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<a href=”https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/neophyte/”>Neophyte</a>
Sound advice in the form of a great poem. Respect!
Too few folk take the trouble to pay heed to your advice: Know their names when you cast your votes.
They’re too buy being led astray by propaganda.
It’s the same in the UK…
Thank you Jane. It is easy to forget, with Trump as president, that this problem goes beyond the US. Greed is a universal failing, and money feeds propaganda.
I can’t compare our struggles with those of American citizens. I consider Trump the most dangerous man in the world – and he somehow manages to change Government policy with a click of the finger. It’s terrifying.
That was meant to be busy, not buy 😉
I think it works either way. 😉
A Freudian slip, perhaps…