Author: Summer

War of the Worlds: Rich vs Poor

brought to you by corrupt politicians or
it was never about “keeping up with the Joneses”
it was about BECOMING the Joneses

billionaires worldwide increased in 2006 to 793
largely due to bullish global stock markets
TOTAL NET WORTH JUMPED to $2.6 trillion.

3.0 billion live on less than two dollars per day
global population of over 6.0 billion people (April 2001)
ILO – 2005 – of the more than 2.8 billion workers
1.4 billion below US $1 a day poverty line
just as many as 10 years ago – or
NO JUMP IN NET WORTH

THAT is not counting the jobless

Over one billion people on the planet lack adequate housing,
while around 100 million have no housing whatsoever.

It is estimated that about 8 million people die
each year because they are too poor to survive.

The needle is in the haystack
growing ever smaller
will soon take a microscopic Camel
to fit thru the eye.

(“Wisdom puts more strength in one wise person than ten strong men give to a city.” Ecclesiastes 7:19 [The Message])

The strafing lasted longer than expected,
striping the pastimes like highway lines
and everyone thought the heat snakes
rising from the road had been told they
could not last till winter.

And I’m sure no one found the cure
for cancer while
they reloaded their repeaters with
neutron seekers that leave buildings
standing.

It takes a blink to kill a thousand,
a millennium to cure a single disease.

It takes an army to decimate
and decades to recreate the
damage done so quickly by boots
trod upon the careless plains.

It takes night and day to reject
each hypothesis that does not measure
against the truth.

It takes weeks and weeks to run equations,
to make persuasions,
to cajole the old-guard into new-peace
by reason.

It takes a careless glance to kill,
a loving gaze to heal
and strong men to gently guide
the weak men who flex their muscles
before audiences who long ago

grew weary of the show.

the first temptation is little
yer a good ol’ cowboy
all you hafta do to stay out of Vietnam
is become a fly boy
Son you’re so special head on down to Atlanta
and take the helm of a fighter jet
Mock I is guaranteed to scar the shit out of a home boy
“You can either go to jail for missing guard duity or
become a Governor of the great state of Texas”

Governor Bush, prince in waiting,
followed the directions of The Great Persuader
now Texas is in the state our Molly Ivins decries.

The stage is set, our once innocent cowboy
now is given the temptation to be the king of the hill
he can become “The most powerful ruler in the world.”
All he has to do is let Cheney pull the strings
Now cowboys have a way of slicing thru the bull
Cowboy George still could see
we saw him look and feel the Twin Towers disaster
and he spoke to we the people sincerely
and promised to get his man “Dead or Alive”
But was turned aside by the power brokers that brought him here
he followed, he saw, he heard
today his popularity dropped to 34% in spite of the advice he receives
down from high 60’s or 70’s

has it happened yet – i think yes
in comes the Jackal and gives Cowboy George the choice
“In this pocket is the key to all the riches in the world
In the other pocket is a gun.
If you don’t choose the riches, you choose death.

Now the cowboy loves his children, and maybe loves his wife,
but he sure likes livin’ (even if not Mock I)
Who has there been to vote for since John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
nobody – now surely
George Bush growing up in Midland and Huston
studied history at Yale, graduating in 1968,
learned of the assassination of JFK
and the controversy still alive in 2006

Mr. President can follow orders
but Cowboy George was country too
before country was born

The Master Manipulators Grand plans
crumble beneath their feet
the nature of the beast exposed
and all the world is watching

Beautiful America is what we have
if we can restore her wings they broke
yes storm clouds brew on the horizon
one we recognize
paranoia is contagious only if it is true
past abuses of presidential powers we know
we were fooled once, shame on them
If we are fooled in 2006
or whenever it is “they” figure Bush a liability
will we be fooled again?
Shame on us if we are.

Speak to us Cowboy John Wayne Bush fan,
watch your popularity rise to the highest ever
for a sitting president.

If you try we will remember, always.

Bush in today’s stubby speach:

“Osama was firing rockets at the fly overs
patrolling the Iraqi no fly zone.”

Don’t we all feel safer now?
With all the rocket fired on our planes
in all the years they paroled the no fly zone
NONE ever came near hitting our planes.

Question of the moment:
If the UAE royalty loves Osama
and Bush loves the UAE royalty
does that equal Bush loving Osama?

If the “enemy of our enemy is our friend.”
Are Bush, Osama, and UAE royalty
our enemy because they are friends?

Or is Rumsfield proved a prophet,
predicting in 1991; if we continued to Baghdad
there would be a civil war in Iraq?