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[bodytext] => Something needs to be said about my country The greatest place in a world full of nations Where we spend more money on war Rather than feeding our poor. It's all in good cause though- We need our oil To drive our cars So they can charge A dollar more than before **** the homeless, let them starve! I gotta get to work tomorrow. So what do you do When the rent is due The bills are high And you don't have a wat to pay Because they lowered your wage And sold your job to the country around the block? Barely making a living Because they raised taxes And your check is already spent To support high unemployment And the economy's decline. Some guy in Pakastan has your job For a mere 10 cents an hour less And now your collecting food stamps Instead of exquisit Tiffany lamps. -The American Nightmare- Lady Liberty is being pick-pocketed By money hungry republicans And the democrats have their hands Up her Skirt, raping the American Dream. The morals we teach our youth That we are a nation of equality divided in two There are the rich, There are the poor; There are the blacks, There are the whites; There is me, There is you. This great nation our ancestors built On the graves of Indians Through the labor of slaves. Freedom is nothing more Than what you can afford America the brave The beauty is in her bullsh*t Those slick politicians talking their game Like prostitutes on a street walk Trampling over the needy To feed the greedy One giant corporation of thieves We don't have presidents We have C.E.O.'s The voice of the people is told Through ad campaigns And movie screens Kids shoot up schools Like Hollywood action scenes And young girls don't like to eat... Since when did Somalia become a fasion statement? We are under educated, overworked And tired of a system that tells us what freedom is What is the right to speak worth If your voice is not heard? I bare my arms against Nuclear bombs and biological warfare. Everybody knows that paper work Is just the governments way of ****ing with you Keeping track of you A number A statistic A casualty of a system that doesn't even know your name. I am not a patriot Because I am a realist.. [comments] => 3 [counter] => 181 [topic] => 41 [informant] => mouth [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => political )
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