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[title] => We Are The Fat Beggars Of The World
[time] => 2003-02-15 01:20:00
[hometext] => "In 1982 and 1983 the U.S. was alone in voting against a (UN) declaration that education, work and healthcare, proper nourishment and national development are human rights. It would appear that even 13 years later, official American attitudes had not "softened" . In 1996 , at a UN-sponsored World Food Summit the US took issue ....more >>>
[bodytext] => with an affirmation that by the summit of the 'right of everyone to have access to safe and nutritious food'. The United States insisted that it does not recognise a 'right to food'.
From "Why Do People Hate America" by Z Sardar and MW Davies (ISBN 1 84046 383 X) Guess what the U.S. and Iraq have in common? They are both the only two countries that have still not ratified the 1989 landmark UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. I think perhaps they deserve each other... We are the fat beggars of the world We sit and watch as children die We stop their governments from being free We restrict their plans and force our own It should really make us groan We vote against the right to eat We vote each time to defeat The poor and hungry The ill and weak If there’s a way We’ll take their resources And make THEM pay We are the fat beggars of the world Do you like to see them weep Each man, woman, boy and girl As you eat your evening meal Just try to imagine, think and feel Your government is so corrupt They exploit these people They put them down They say to eat is no human right Nor education, work or health The U.S. would rather sit and stare It gets in the way of wealth We want their resources We don’t want to share This world is ours What we say goes We feed the fat and ugly pigs And it shows, it shows, it shows We are the fat beggars of the world Over all you skinny boys and girls We will need ever more and more No angel above will count the score For us to have you must surely lose That’s just tough you have no shoes What’s important is I get the vote Of all the fat cats in my land They mean more to me than any wasted outstretched hand You must just give and give and give It’s not important to me you live We are the fat beggars of the world We must get fatter without any limit We are the fat beggars of the world Your deathshead means you grin it There is no time to give a share To do that we’d have to care Those with much must get more Though we’re sick right to our core We politicians have our people snowed They think we are doing good We sit and smile and tell more lies They are too stupid to realise The selfish gene must have its way To death and war and obscenity [comments] => 3 [counter] => 163 [topic] => 43 [informant] => Steeleyes [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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