Plain-Spoken, Common Sense Distortion

As I sat, forced to listen to your pitchmen, it struck me hard that you guys do have it all figured out

I couldn’t think of anything to say that might contradict the script you all memorized so very well

Your boys met all of my puke objections like the finest of well-oiled used car sales teams

But strangely, though your solutions were attempted, it looks like all the problems still remain

You fellows acted so convincingly and I, all by myself, could find no flaws anywhere in your logic

It seemed that elitist charlatans led us from the righteous path we were always meant to follow

My ill-considered complaints and overly-complex details were quickly and cleanly brushed aside

It hit me that, now the only impediment to your success was the mere obstinacy of my brothers

You had covered all of your bases well and you had left not a single marketing stone unturned

You had a full portfolio of solutions tailored to preserving cherished families and precious freedoms

Your answers reinforced one another and they all buttressed an unassailable logical framework

Nonetheless, I cannot escape this vague unease at the prospect of your uncontrolled ascendancy

I pick up on the great confidence and pride you project in all your plain-spoken pronouncements

That your ideas are firmly grounded in good old-fashioned common sense is just so abundantly clear

Your teams are well-disciplined and razor-sharp in their execution of costly multimedia campaigns

Yet I remain baffled by the numbers who still stubbornly balk at adopting your brave prescriptions

You have pithy aphorisms and catchy slogans backed by short but potent multimedia bites

‘Research’ foundations with noted spokesmen support your platform with contracted position papers

Your scathing critiques of the flaws and foolishness of the other side are all quite well-publicized

Sadly, for all of your hard work you have achieved at best, a bitter and acrimonious stalemate

You adopted the family as your mascot and pledged to uphold the Traditional Values® you created

Reciting God Bless America after every speech keeps His self-selected people on your side

Why then is there not a majority movement racing towards your common sense side of the spectrum?

Maybe that awful fake news media is somehow distorting your good message in realtime as you speak

Facefulls of False Consumer Anxiety

You can see em every day rushin darkly all about: skinny faces all like troubled up and ashened out

Running scared and breathin heavy, not looking back, all tensed up, tryin hard justa remain uninvolved

Every single one filled up with so much anger - they just got no time for whatever fool compassion

Yup, facefulls of worry, pass by in their thousands wearing dingy clothes, under ever-dirtier skies

Holding back their panic, thanks to them angry pop voices with their martial advertising music

Fists clenched tightly inside their pockets, but still praying hard that there might yet be some way out

All their mumbled monotone voices echo with that same stressed-out-until-bored uncertainty

Dragged and pushed, kicked and driven thru this too short time – oh, look, they’re blindfolded as well

Pausing for a moment, not knowing where they are, but wait, that burned, melted smell is still there

Facefulls of worry, running on stress hormones that are eating them up alive from their inside out

Pushing through their decaying messes as a leaden sky presses their own poisons back down upon them

Awakening from confusing dreams with so much to do yet still afraid to realize it’s all just so pointless

They’re always looking away just in time, feigning some passing interest - to avoid exchanging glances

The frenzied beat pulses into their unborn infant’s stomachs, imprinting them just like tiny cygnets

Shoveling in gutfulls of fastfood, they try to mask that false hunger created by tension and insecurity

They grow crosseyed chasing after the hollow plastic HappyEverAfter that is taped to their noses

Seen em gasping, haggard, eyes darting, pumped too full of a powerful and unavoidable uncertainty

They erupt spontaneously into a savage aggression, like hungry stray dogs forced too closely together

Find it difficult to think straight with health issues, uncertain jobs and an oppressive load of debt

Always tensed up against that knife in the back that must certainly be coming down hard, out the dark

Mistaking franchised-financed-faith pitchmen of some frilly eternal salvation for true apostolic couriers

Inescapably conditioned to covet the New and Improved, sentenced to remain endlessly dissatisfied

Resolved but unrequited after accepting so much they cannot understand, much less ever control

Leaders reduced into a myopic micromanagement to just try and force things to make a little sense

Ignoring each new unforeseen problem by saying it’s too damn hard, expensive and way too late to fix

Loudly chanting those clever talking head catchphrases to drown out the other conflicting factoids

Trying mightily to remain focused only upon the lilting message of canned, lighthearted consumerism

But twisting up way too tightly on the inside due to unwelcome upwelling of subconscious perceptions

Swaggering about with an ignorant pride, but, dammit, still shadowed by seemingly senseless doubts

Waking up in the night at the sound of intruders - or was it just another irrelevant nightmare

Catching something out of the corner of their eye they know they should really consider… later on

Ulcers, rashes, migraines, obesity, botox, faith and addictions all betray their cosmetic bravado

Facefulls of worry in an artificial hurry, saving so much time that they’ll never ever get to spend

Heartbeats too rapid, wickedly hypertensive, sky-high cholesterol, yet they think they move smoothly

Burying memories for later like so many frightened squirrels, only to end up in a blurred confusion

Rabidly scarfing up false fulfillment from that vast smorgasbord of nutrient-free but high-fat rewards

Doing Our Best, Just For Ourselves

We began this, a new and better life, by burning off our family’s slice of that protected rain forest

Often, before I rolled that big yellow school bus, I’d been racing on Crank for like days on end

We forced our kidnapped women mules to swallow bags of heroin and then flew them off to the US

I adapted to the new technology by selling photos of my drugged sex sales force on the internet

The indigenous quickly sickened and died from our influenza-ridden gifts of red-plaid, wool blankets

My fate was to recruit suicide bombers but, only by Great God’s will, not to sacrifice my own life

When they finally caught me in the act, I quickly pleaded innocent and, after that, claimed insanity

It turned out his last tortured words of wisdom were that he simply really needed to take a crap

I rushed to each new disaster, bought out victims on bogus paper, collected federal aid and walked

I pimped my 13 year old at the truck stop after school when I got too drug-uglied to earn my habit

We smashed a few lame old family pictures before we took off in her long-dead husband’s tired car

He made a martyr’s goodbye video but, sadly, Allah’s hand detonated his vest early and only he died

I drank my way into fitful sleep every night once I had firmly convinced myself that I really liked it

Chancing upon their mishap, we opportunistically robbed them to the boom of our loud gangsta rap

I finally found true sexual fulfillment while working as a night attendant at the nursing home

Look, we only spend the donations of the faithful to better help spread the word of our savior

We drowned several perfect baby girls before she bore me the son that we both so desired

I huffed all kinds of solvents until they finally locked my brain-damaged ass up in this place for good

Just made damn sure that stupid dog of mine would bite any stranger who came close to my trailer

I abandoned my kids until I was old, broke and wasted and heard my son got a disability pension

My unmarried granddaughter had her first kid even younger than my single-parent grandmother

Every year I assaulted one of the quieter, weaker ones from my position of power as their counselor

I was always abusive and often overdosed on prescription meds during my NeoCon talk show rants

Verily, I righteously spread my seed among the younger women who found jesus at our revivals

We attacked them over their fictional WMDs but still proudly displayed huge stockpiles of our own

He earmarked lots of access, subsidies and legislation for those who had paid to have him elected

He studiously practiced speeches that corpro-donors paid others to tailor just for him to read aloud

As they had explained it all to him quite well, his beliefs were rock solid, so his delivery was earnest

I spent quality time with my personal savior and always emerged quite calm...and right on message

It really hurt me when my boy was tossed off that 12^th birthday ATV, right on his helmetless head

We tied the kids out onto the clothesline so we could get off in the modular while we were still high

I gave ‘em a bag of Doritos, a 44oz Mountain Dew and locked them in the van, behind the bar

We trained orphan 10 year-olds to kill by making it an exciting and drug-enhanced game

I was talking and ran the 4-Way Stop sign but my girlfriend and I both swore that he had hit us

We felt so good about being too big to fail that we spent lavishly to avoid any new regulations

We strapped the women with nail bombs because our sacred religion forbade their being searched

We Give Thanks In A Civilized Manner

    "We got him!" - Barack Obama

That great satan is dead, so why not let’s parade his head on a pike pole down there ta GroundZero

We’re taking to the streets waving flags, shouting violent slogans and jumping up and down

We’re arrogantly unaware that we look just like them stupid camel jockeys we so scathingly dismiss

Shooting him dead vastly fortified our ignorant pride and momentarily blocked out our real problems

Now we can street-chant USA, USA, USA! until we’re hoarse – But, Oh-no, we aint like them ayrabs

Violent death is something we all understand from the movies and we joyfully party hearty to his

I really feel like I did something and it’s so freaking good to know that killer is dead, dead, dead….

Fist-pumping and screaming but, Hell no! we don’t resemble them numbnut ragheads at all

At last we have vengeance – His violent death deeply satisfies us at that gut level - Where we live

So now they all see once again the vast superiority of this blessed land and of us, His chosen people

Let us rejoice like at some good old fashioned lynching, witch-burning or race riot violence

We can stamp on infantile effigies of him that we cheeringly burn on our littered, decaying streets

Know that real justice has been visited at long last on this mass murderer, and that we exult

We can all join hands in celebration, for once again we have carried out our God’s will

And you can bet that his death wont turn out to be just a good career move to further his evil cause

Damn would we like to see the HD video of that Seal raid and the slo-mo hi-cal gunshots to his head

Revenge is ours at last and, as leaders say, it demonstrates what we are still capable of as a people

Our retribution is so sweet that we can quickly, easily and totally forget its decade of delay

And now is the time for our politicos to ride the wave of mindless jingoism to their own benefit

This is exactly the kind of solution we really need for all the rest of these like complex issues

Let’s trot out our tired religious leaders to assure us once again of the sanctity of our cause

We can all puff up like mating toads from the glory reflected off the bullet-shredded corpses

Show us the enhanced pictures so that we can gain our vital and sanctimonious closure, at long last

Ignore the billions spent, the global goodwill lost and the years it took just to find the smelly wacko

Let us savor this great victory and reflect once more upon our divinely ordained exceptionist role

For this moves us forward on all fronts, further advancing the bright beacon of our noble ideals

Know that thru this killing we have once again righted ourselves after that greatest of wrongs

So dance and shout as if our home team had won some big championship - Broadcast nationwide

Discarding The Latest Strategic Vision Going Forward

      In honor of David Meyer and how we used to laugh over management follies

Got yanked from another canceled project just in time to join one more failing release death march

It’s true that we have been faced with some unplanned delays, but they will not affect our schedule

Worked all day to fix that again but it just broke on the very first try, so I got that going for me now

Restored our competitiveness by offloading our pension obligations during our bailedout bankruptcy

Since that line of reasoning no longer aligns with our new policies we’re simply not going to go there

They’re cutting our losses to re-focus in line with their newest strategic vision going forward

Never really got onboard and watched as it quickly failed so luckily I’m done with that as well

Squatting amid the twisted parts and tattered plans he smiles up all smudged: ‘OK! So that’s all set’

Sensing management frustration with our unending futile efforts, he simply proclaimed it good to go

Now they’re saying I need to work again this weekend, so, yup, things really are coming together

Her boss said there’s no budget for any meaningful re-engineering so we’re done with that, too

Even if the layoffs and cutbacks don’t work, his CEO golden parachute will still pay off handsomely

Got to stop this finger-pointing and stay on message with our ordained take-away from the big boys

All I am saying is that this cutback is a plain no-brainer if the powers that be still want their bonuses

You can always quit but they’ll damn your reference calls with innocuous but deadly catchphrases

We must not dwell on past mistakes but rather keep moving forward, building our brighter future

The service hotline has been disconnected so I’m guessing things must be going pretty good

They outsourced design, engineering, production and support so, yeah, I can connect the dots

He even talked to us about the importance of our work so now we all see why we need to step it up

Got my overseas replacements trained so I’m eligible for possible severance and that’s good to know

They reclassified that behavior from a bug into a feature so it’s off our plates for right now

Turns out that missing enhancement we called for, all sudden needs implemented ASAP: Huh…

The QA people didn’t talk to Support and the Manual is gibberish, but, hey, It’s time to release

Our leader’s project schedule is up-to-date but we’re really so far behind… well, how bout that

Seen a couple managers new cars outside - but we got them point75% raises going for us, so there

They talked all friendly about their kids and golf game before mentioning our working late again

They left their catered lunch leftovers in the breakroom, boys, How bout that for some real benes

Got my external transfer at 50 so I’m done with that, but hey, I got consulting going for me now

Yes, I understand that the decision to terminate me was based solely on technical business needs

They said if we earned what ignorant, uprooted asian peasants do, they would have kept us on

Guzzled my last cup of Self-Responsibility Kool-aid so now I won’t be demanding Unemployment :)

So, I’m now ready to give up my house for a packed dorm, on call 24x7 for production emergencies

Unnecessary And Unpatriotic Questions

Why does it take regulation to get you to do the right thing which you must always first call meddling

How well do you sleep opposing mercury emission rules to protect the brains of infants and birds

Why can you insist that your company did nothing wrong but agree to pay that huge fine and penalty

How does it feel to have been lying so much and so often that it now feels just like telling the truth

Does god tell you to worry more about pollution regulations than what pollution does to people

How could you stuff mortgage funds with bad loans, hedge against them, yet pitch them as safe bets

Why must you always, always, overstate the savings and underestimate the costs of gov’t programs

How come golden parachutes work come profit or loss but you cancel benefits owed to the offshored

Why do you tailor purchased research just so you can keep harming your customers a little bit longer

What sense does it make to raise the retirement age when firms routinely dump all workers over 50

Why must we be expert at your deliberately over-complicated financial scams and work full time

How come you keep overusing livestock antibiotics which breeds resistant strains that infect humans

Why do you keep trying to falsely differentiate between lobbying, consulting and influence-peddling

What enduring patriotic wisdom is there to your greedy, one-track, pursuit of over-the-top millions

How can you be so eager to clear your name but be so unable and unwilling to make any statements

How come we even need the EPA if everyone loves the earth as much as your warm corporate ads say

Doctors, what possible excuse could you have for secretly taking money and perqs from drug firms

Yeah and you, why are 5% of patients responsible for fully 50% of all our bloated healthcare spending

And how will your blessed free market bring healthcare to unemployed, dropout, unmarried mothers

How could you just lay in front of TV for 20 years and dare bitch cause you’re fat and have no skills

Why are your out-of-context statistics any more valid than the junk science you rail so loudly against

How dare you claim innocence as your outsourced, uninspected, foreign ingredients poison customers

Why must you exaggerate, omit, take out-of-context and just plain lie during your political debates

How is it you spend millions on flag-waving ads after you offshored design, production and support

How can you keep a straight face hailing more spending without new revenues as bipartisan progress

How do you justify poisoning consumers on sugar, salt and fat just to snatch your tainted millions

To what end do you support outspending all other countries combined on arms, each and every year

How will you keep a straight face reading your expensive and fictional biographies to the grandkids

Why do you play the Hitler card when debating the birthrate of those mired in generational poverty

How can you proudly deny we create a mass extinction with our divine duty to fruitfully overpopulate

How could you so quietly ignore the thousands of liberated civilians euphemized as collateral damage

What makes you trumpet our national glory despite education, healthcare and employment statistics

How dare you counsel foreigners to eco-preservation given our SlashAndBurn/SmashAndGrab record

How could you put 599 additives in your cigarettes yet leave in the polonium from the fertilizer

Why is it you believe that your spoiled, illiterate, slacking offspring will be tomorrow’s world leaders

How can you stand to pimp them an imaginary eternal heaven in exchange for their fictional souls

Don't Mess With TexAss

Leading our nation and, therefore, the entire world in per-capita greenhouse gas emissions

Proudly defending our border - while being utterly dependent upon illegal labor from the other side

Home of the for-profit, from inside a cool SUV, drugged, but still exotic, wildlife hunting preserve

State with the lowest percent of land conservation and the absolute filthiest of the nation’s rivers

The place where foobawl is indeed a truly vital and important element, at the very core of life

Legislature where simply stalling the climate debate is trumpeted as a victory for personal freedom

A fantasy land of upscale overpriced mall shopping where driveby ghettos can be perfectly ignored

Where California is scathingly known as the home of those tax and spend environmental wackos

A place where obesity can be viewed as a sign of physical strength and of a righteous prosperity

Where Colorado is somewhere close enough to spread the toxic disease of their lifestyle, by RVs

A place God saw fit to grant coal-powered air conditioning in the good fight against global warming

They ensure individual assault weapon freedom while rigging elections with illegal gerrymandering

Their fiercely independent apartment cowboy class runs with rifles mounted in pickup truck windows

Thoughtlessly addicted to subsidizing terrorists via the lowest average MPG anywhere on the planet

Known as the lone star state and jesus knows - they should have remained independent - And alone

Their state animal, the armadillo, pretty much sums up their ironclad impregnability to reason

Righteously pacing the nation with 60% of all the criminal executions - and happy to tell you so

Wonderfully embodied by the folksy and totally scripted preaching of George W and Gov Perry

Don’t mess with Texas or you get a 3 step jump on their gunfire to get the hell out if you don’t like it

Willing and able to heap a pompous scorn upon people living in places they can’t even find on a map

Where comic frauds like willie nelson play golf wearing designer stetsons and cowboy golf boots

The place where the broad, self-satisfied smirk and the harsh, cynical laugh are sure signs of success

They speak with a wide and ignorant accent that requires subtitles for the rest of the nation

Ever ready to support the nuking of potential enemies first and then maybe sorting things out later

Leaders of the trend that promotes all recreation as obnoxiously loud and totally gasoline-powered

Home of a massive state debt as well as vicious calls for liberal fiscal responsibility in Washington

Origin of that compassionate, evangelical, mega-church conservatism and Traditional Family Values™

Where support for the war, any war, runs even deeper than merely their plastic bumper stickers

Birthplace of the kill them before we bother to try and understand them mindset

Where jesus grants you the sullen right to never engage in any diplomacy with your enemies

Half the size of Alaska but with twice the attitude per square foot as New York City

Embodying the extraction-based environmental ethos proposed for us all by the energy industry lobby

Place where home on the range means being stalled in the broiling smog of beltway commuter traffic

Their diesels pull those 50’ trailers which tow 3-4 ATVs, taking in nature and running loud generators

Where blacks are ignored, Mexicans are swindled while rich rancher’s inbred longhorns live like kings

From the dead shores of the Gulf to the putrid waters of the Rio Grande, Ah-ha gotta love that Texas

Suck It Up And Bend Over Right-Winger

you just stand up straight now and take the medicine like you’ve always so abrasively made others do

keep idling way cool in them shoddy, supersized SUVS sipping your overpriced lattes on your cell

remain blind to the rest of the world as you stand proud, ignorant and alone, braying bad English

think: you pathetic, porcine morons have elected crews of phony, lying bastards your entire lives

hey, go ahead and get born again, in fact, why don’t you just get reborn again, bunches of times?

mouth those newly-minted Traditional family Values™ drilled into you by their media mouthpieces

step on up to those green and guilt-free 300 horsepower $60k hybrid foreign crossovers, sucka

rightwing plutocrats fooled you so many times, yet you still believe you look down on them squishes

just stay bent over, this takes some time and you may feel like maybe a little bee sting, up there

now don’t get rude, angry or obnoxious, after all, you pre-approved it all, at your Refi closings

don’t forget your blanket endorsement of that secret inner circle of smirking NeoTheoCons

yes, you gave those suave puppets control over every government branch, time and time again

so just quit trying to scapegoat them now and finally accept that you have only yourselves to blame

did you check under your lovely daughter’s virgin bed one more time for those missing WMDs?

maybe your under-the table, illegale gardener was selling enriched nuclear materials, too

why, you even believed those who claimed pre-emptively defensive liberations would be welcomed

you and your little friends swallowed that comic fantasy of paying for a war with their grateful oil

and with your dusty liberty at risk, you railed against a socialist welfare state, from your couch

puhleeze, direct your phony outrage up your overworked, pleasure-seeking sphincters

how bout, instead, you give it up again for ruthless, cynical and unilateral environmental policy

you know you want cheap gas no matter what, so you just keep on chanting ‘Drill, Baby Drill’

isn’t the tax break wealth trickling down off the rich from above lifting your boat, too?

so, let’s see, all sudden, you’re all like up in arms, after years of a placid bovine acceptance?

look, it was too late when you thoughtlessly spent that first of too many liar’s home equity loans

now you swell up with a righteous indignation - why you stupid pompous fools: just whoa up, now

hush up and go back to work so you can make that minimum payment on your credit card debt

hey, you still heed their phony call for newer weapons and bombs and more troops every year

take a good closeup look at their madeup, smiling/lying faces before they repo that rental HDTV

you liked the homey jingles they taught those shiftless, reborn, alcoholic, druggie draft dodgers

whose fault is it really that you’re a lazy, ignorant, self-absorbed, unhealthy and penniless chump?

stifle your whining so you don’t choke on the huge and bitter pills that you must swallow at last

diligently try to refocus on wasted shopping and really concentrate on their empty corporate sports

dont get all like huffy, as if you were so slickly conned that you couldn’t have seen it coming

fall asleep in front of the TV again as more of that waxy fat congeals inside your hardened arteries

spare me and just do like them: go take it up silently, in private, with your do-it-yourself savior

but, dont Even dwell on the mess you created as you gaze down on your precious sleeping children

whoa up with that new consternation: you were part of the braindead majority every step of the way

you endorsed printing money for unfunded, go-it-alone, cowboy-crusader, exceptionist adventurism

you sat still as their oil firms made energy policy while funneling your gas cash over to the terrorists

on your back from the sofa, you laughingly approved their sarcastic denial of honest science

at last you finally see we cant throw the sand high enough out of the hole you let them dig us into

ok, so lets hear your reactionary plan to mistakes you so unthinkingly encouraged for decades on end

old humpty-dumpty lies there now, so why don’t you just try and put him back together again, stud

nah, just lay back for some more TV: you need lots of energy to suckup hard at work again tomorrow

relax, there’s probably a safe, quick and inexpensive fix for this multi-trillion dollar deficit, anyway

and youre still too cowed by the hucksters to even think we spend way, way too much on the military

yes, you let those homey, libertarian, oligarchic ‘folks’ just run amok and now you get to pay

whoops, you bought all the smartly-smarmy copy their donors paid to have written for them to read

but you’re still too tough to hug a tree and too smart to go in depth with them phony, elitist squishes

and that old tax and spend is so tired and failed compared to the new borrow and mortgage

you supported wondrously unaffordable healthcare choices from their rigged marketplace

your pitiful retirement savings are ransacked by those bailed-out but unregulated investment banks

frack dude! don’t get all like bent out of shape just cause you cant afford to warehouse your mom

don’t worry: your ignorant, tattooed little darlings were born to take your place as world leaders

just keep kneejerking with that tried and true it’ll be too expensive and cost us jobs slogan

know in your heart that exercise is a waste of time and raw veggies and whole grains just suck

this aint the time to go flip-flopping either, just try to hang on to that hateful, nowhere job

hey, home prices will be coming back and you can count on that money for your golden years 

in the meantime, there’s lots of sure-fire, low-risk, high-return investments out there for you now

keep going with your gut on this grab for the gusto, live for today, buy-now-pay-later lifestyle

yup, you led the highlife on negative savings rates, financing your lifestyle on credit and equity

so, now you can figure out how to strategically default on the mess they’ve got us in, fat boy

but remember: nothing short of total victory will satisfy the brave sacrifice of our loyal troops

maybe your savior has some more ideas, you best waddle off now and babble with him some more

Yes, We Could Have

So-called Progressive Politicians are just as lame as their Conserve nothing friends across the aisle

 Sure, we can twist facts and omit at-odds details, just like our esteemed colleagues across the aisle

We too, can cunningly bump our poll numbers by reading other’s stirring speeches after tragic events

Yes we can, act like we held fast to our beliefs, after we compromised them up front and in secret

Know that we, as well, smilingly inflate potential savings and deliberately underestimate true costs

We, also, hype pitiful sops to the commoners as we find new ways to coddle our rich supporters

We find it possible to express our strong ecological concern even as we continue relaxing regulations

We speak earnestly of change while, behind the scenes, we simply carry on with business as usual

We trumpet wasted budget-busting giveaways to both sides as truly patriotic bipartisan compromises

We glibly promised jobs in clean energy but continued subsidizing ethanol and all types of fossil fuels

Hey, we too wear lapel pin flags and piously mouth God Bless America just as often as the Right

Turns out our donor base is also Big Money Movers and Shakers and not really just the little guys

And by god, our bristling, increased arms budgets prove that we are not even Soft On Defense

Yes we can! – Falsely pimp even whoppingly fat tax cuts for the rich as a victory for the working man

You bet we posture for the polls: Right up there with the best of their empty political fashion models

Just like them, we, too, are all lawyers: Masters of obfuscation, doublespeak and the fine print

We are able to ignore decaying infrastructure and failed kids just as well as our patriotic opponents

We can heap scorn upon the ruling financiers, even as we subsidize their remaining Too Big To Fail

Sure, we patronize phony corporate college and pro sports, just like previous lame administrations

See us worship schools never mentioning that students wont find the jobs needed to repay their loans

You’ll hear us rapidly co-opting their newly-minted Traditional family values™ to our own selfish ends

Yes we can, still subsidize corn sugar creating the diabetes that you can believe we overpay to treat

We can place the exceptionist wreath upon our citizens in front of the world, just like conservatives

We actually could have reformed healthcare but political expediency warped that effort into disaster

Watch as we, as well, recast unaudited earmark spending as shovel-ready, job-creating investments

WE could have sold off our pickups and SUVs, gone back to school and even lost some weight, too

We might have demanded they stop spending more on arms than the whole world put together

We could have admitted we pay much more but get far less from the worlds finest healthcare system

Yes we can, loudly demand deficit reduction, but without any real benefit cuts and no new taxes

Yes, we might not have hired illegales if we didn’t save so much in taxes, wages and benes doing so

We can talk of good nutrition as we permit expensive, patented GMOs to pervert our organic crops

Yes, we could have gone deeper than their soundbites and pondered a bit beyond their catchphrases

We might not have taken out liar loans, forgone some vacations and even saved a bit for retirement

Yes, up to our necks in the tarpits of Washngton we can still talk of change you should still believe in

Yes, we could actually have realized that things were far too gone to repair in like a year or so

Yes, we could have realized that consumerism, finance and real estate can’t anchor our kid’s futures

We might have even faced up to the tough reality of a bleak, gray, post-Gipper Morning In America