18-04-18
Man! – they sure fucked things up!
In less that forty years of trickle-down bullshit
Designed to screw the Working Class
Out of everything they fought for
For almost two centuries
The Middle Classes are now being squeezed
And bled dry!
It costs more than a million dollars
To buy a rundown shack in the former slums
Being gentrified
By absentee owners
Or ripped down
And replaced with hideous condos
They sell in far distant lands
To cover their building costs
So they can sit empty
While the ranks of the Homeless grow and grow
So that soon,
Even the Middle Classes
Will be joining them
And is it any wonder
The buggers are beginning to bleat and moan?
Oh well,
At least they know
Finally,
How the Working Class
The worked so hard
To screw
Feel about what was done to them.

So,
I ask,
"Who's really to blame for all this?"

Is it the speculators and traders,
The builders and developers,
The estate agents
And the people selling their homes
At grossly inflated rates
Everyone hoping to make a killing
Off the Housing Crisis?

Is it the big financiers
And the bankers
The businessmen of Bay Street
And the CEOs they hire
To do their dirty work?

Is it the politicians –
The mayor and council
In the developer's pockets?
The premier
Who is afraid
To do what has to be done
Take bold steps
To reduce foreign ownership
And land speculation
The Prime Minister
Who seems to exist solely
To ponce and preen
Before the public gaze?

These are all
Supposedly
Leftwing politicians
So paralysed by their fear
Of Big Business
And what it can do to the Economy
They fail to understand
That they do nothing.
For all their effectiveness,
They might as well be
Politicians of the Right –

Regardless of who we elect these days
Business gets what it wants
And the rest of us
Get screwed.

Perhaps it's the politicians
Who openly serve
The interests
Of Big Business –
The Righties!

Rightwing politicians
Openly work for Business
Though they pretend otherwise
At election time
When they couch their real intentions
In the same tired old rhetoric
They've sold the Middle Classes on
For decades
"Fiscal responsibility!"
"Balanced budget!"
"Level playing field!"
"Becoming more competitive!"
"We must learn to stand on our own two feet!"
"What's good for Business
Is good for Society!"
"Reduce red tape!"
"Fairness!"
"Freedom!"

Funny how the National Debt
Usually rises
When the Righties come to power
Though
Spending on anything
Beneficial to Society's longterm interests
Education
Health Care
Social Welfare
Environmental Protection
Worker Safety
Fair Wages
Gets cut to the bone,
Our Future well-being
Sacrificed
To the needs of Business
To make a bigger buck
Than it made yesterday –
But the Righties
Have more important things
To spend our taxes on:
Beefing up the military
Hiring more police
Spending more on policing equipment
Such as anti-riot gear
Tax cuts for the wealthiest members of society
Huge sporting extravaganzas
To keep the masses entertained.
Crime is always a big concern
Of the Righties
And usually increases
Dramatically
When they're in power,
But
Organised Crime
Is a business too!

The last thing Big Business wants
Is a level playing field
With a more competitive environment
Unless it's for those young upstarts
Threatening to take these bloated bastards down.

If the playing field really was level,
What big established businessman
Would be able to stand
On his own two feet?
What Businessman has ever
Been able to stand
On his own two feet
Without massive tax breaks
And subsidies
Bail outs and buy backs
As though the reservoir
Of our tax dollars
Was bottomless?
At one time
We gave our resources away
At bargain basement prices
Then we just gave them away.
Now,
We are paying
Big Business
To take them off our hands.

This makes great business sense
If you're a businessman
ROTFLYAO all the way to the banker
Who's also in on the joke.
What's good for Business
Is rarely good
For Society,
Like reducing the red tape
Enacted
To protect our environment
From the businessman's greed.

In all fairness
The businessman
Seeks to be free
To do as he pleases
Free from the responsibility
To clean up the mess he makes
While he's profiting
From our gullibility.

So,
The Left
Let's us down
Through timidity
While
The Right
Screws us
On behalf of Big Business,
Leaving us
To wonder
What's the point
Of voting anymore
When the end result
Is just more of the same old bullshit?

Enter in the Populists!
With much fanfare
And drum-beating,
They talk the talk
And appear to walk the walk
All the way to the podium.
They're on our side!
They too hate those elites
Who've hijacked our democracy!
But,
They too are righties
They are part of the elite
More often than not
And,
They are racists
Trying to divide us
Turn us against ourselves
Using race as a scapegoat
For all society's ills.

So
They talk the talk
But change the story
And
They walk the walk
Right up to that day of glory!

But,
The story
Is given a new twist
On the day after,
As once again
Everyone who fell for their bullshit
Gets fucked right up the arse
By these dire wolves in sheep's clothing
Bursting our doors down
With their noise;
For,
They are really
Working for those same elites
That have been screwing us all along.

Am I too cynical?
It seems to me
The majority of the Middle Classes
Want a strong leader
Who will tell everyone
What to do.
In this way,
They can evade any sense of responsibility
For the ills and woes of Society
Since they were only
Following
Some one else's orders.