BANKSTER, LIEYERS, ORGGAGE COMPANIES
INYOURPOCKETFORSURANCE, COUPERATIONS,
HELPYOURSELFCARE AND THE SHOCKMARKET
If BANKSTERS stopped stealing our funds
Charging excessive late fees
Charging more interest than
Your house is worth
If LIEYERS told the truth in court
And color didn’t land people in jail
If our HALL OF INJUSTICE weren’t fine factories
With people lined up a half a block long
Arbitrated to pay excessive fees
With no transparency about that money
If INYOURPOCKETFORSURANCE were not
Also, in the game to raise your rates
With the smallest infraction charged and
Laws making mandatory insurance everywhere
If ORGGAGE companies
Stopped adding compound interest to home loans
And charging outrageous refinance fees
And would, deduct house payments, honestly
From the beginning of the loan
If our lawmakers would put a cap on interest
If HELPYOURSELFCARE didn’t do unneeded tests
Inflating the bills for Medicare or Medicaid
Transferring your savings to their coffers
Until most ill people’s have nothing left
If drug company and hospitals didn’t overcharge
If THE SHOCKMARKET stopped inside trading
And pocketing your saving by phony IRA’s
Which are a gamble, as sure as the Rolette wheel
Many people having no say about their own money
Then maybe, just maybe, the common man
Could make it on even a minimum wage
With a small house to live in and saving in tact
And the American dream could come back
With Construction happening and jobs available
Forget about recouping anything from the COUPERATIONS
Capitalism has them in a strangle hold
They’re going to make money
No matter what country they have to do it in
USA people be damned. Only the devil may care.
…Linda King - 2/15/2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
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I found your notice on FB you had posted an entry. I told you how to make the link. Takes time to learn these things! But I like this poem. Oh, mortgage was misspelled, but I think you have found your calling writing poetry about your troubles. This is a good poem I think. I enjoyed reading about your problems in poetry! I am looking forward to some more!
ReplyDeleteORG..GAGE COMPANY WAS DELIBERATELY MISSPELLING.. ORG...GET IT.
ReplyDeleteYes! This is a perfect way to rant about all the ills of the earth, especially what you have to deal with daily. I like this poem.
ReplyDeleteIt does have a ring.
Oh, I did get it. Oh that is funnier. Yes, I think you have found your calling. Poems about your real troubles. The low woman on the totem pole troubles.
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