But still: Faith, Family
and Freedom did prevail
Took
no action that might curb the disgusting obesity epidemic decimating
the pickup and SUV class
Still
kept our stupid noses way too far up in that filthy Middle East and
there still aint no progress
Oh,
yeah, never did get the big banks small enough to be able to just let
their greedy asses fail
Didn’t
really even talk about declining family income and the rapidly
shrinking middle class at all
Whoops,
them Great Lakes keep being abused as convenient combination dump and
sewage lagoon
Dangit,
really need to get BigAg to save water, use less fertilizer and lay
off pesticides, Sometime
Cows,
pigs and chickens are still breeding resistant microbes after being
overdosed on antibiotics
Weren’t
able to convince the Best and Brightest to do real work
instead of hollow Wall Street scams
Forgot
to start rebuilding the roads, bridges, electric grid, water systems
and ports - once again
Didn’t
have the time to eat right but were able to gorge enough fast food to
add a few more pounds
Denied
any obligation to those unaborted, sinful single-parent children
destined only to go to jail
Unknowingly
increased our toxic emissions by another 16% last year despite the
economic slowdown
Failed
to realize that expiring temporary stimuli automatically morph into
forbidden tax increases
The
diabetes plague raged on as gov’t subsidies for the corn syrup that
cause it remained unchanged
Never
even heard as ignorant foreigners laughed at our gridlocked
government like a bad Polack joke
Didn’t
concern ourselves with the Feds collecting vast amounts of our
private information in secret
Shoot,
really shoulda maybe taken a quick look at all those ever-filthier
rivers and streams
That
purulently over-complicated tax code coulda been reworked…
Woulda
tried ta lower my cholesterol and stuff but, bein busy, why, fast
food was the cheapest
Forgot
about repairing, reusing, repurposing and recycling after that there
Great Recession
They
still refused to learn English but we’re real busy putting
everything in Spanish, so it’s OK
Still
paying absurdly exorbitant cable, cell and internet bills but barely
getting 3rd world service…
Got
beyond preventing climate change but neglected to even start planning
for its very real effects
Didn’t
remember to look for alternative news outlets and kept on
single-sourcing my canned opinions
Ignored
controlling the costliest yet least effective health care system of
all the developed countries
Forgot
to stop staring as their overpaid, ignorant fupball giants in shiny
tights bent over in fronta me
Lost
track of quality of life indicators but remained focused only on
unemployment, GDP and stocks
Once
again avoided statistics about our precious
children falling behind in reading, math and science
Didnt
notice that the unemployment rate went down mostly cause lots of
people just gave up looking
Still
disregard that BigAg poisons our soils and lets them blow away in the
interests of larger bonuses
Subconsciously
overlooked the record numbers without insurance, on welfare and using
food stamps
Kept
confusing Yankee Ingenuity with offshoring design, production and
support for fat CEO bonuses
Omitted
demanding the secret sauces they’re fracking into our drinking
water to export fossil fuels
Just
let that giant, smelly and toxic dead spot at the Mississippi delta
remain our fair nation’s anus
Maintained
a Survival of the Fittest attitude regarding the mass
extinction our overpopulation caused
Forgot
we’re hurtling towards endless oblivion while looking forward only
to one more lost weekend
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