trickle-up economics (aka the bailout)

[mnaz]

someone will buy the shit
landfill widgets and junk bonds
phony baloney triple-a rated funds
they trickle down from the pyramid
its base crumbling into the sahara
the great slum desert of capital

trickle up, withering damn desert!
these are dark times, buy something!
flashing screen! flashing screen!

a hundred g's for the classroom?
no! class beckons like a mob hit
ink up and stop by the gun machine
the foreign people must be stopped!
flashing screen! flashing screen!

condoleeza condaroni
condoleeza fight fight fight!
condoleeza tell me true, tell me
cuando cuando cuan-do?

hunker down like a hillbilly jug band
grab a banjo and do what they say
buy something, goddammit

[Arcadia]

"capitalism is about consumo" said our president today, so maybe I´ll change my remixed ´98 computer model, send it as a gift to my father and buy a new one! And maybe I feel less stupid after that... good poem, mnaz!

[mnaz]

gracias, amiga.

wasn't it the bush mob who had the temerity to urge us all to go shopping right after the 9/11 attacks? i think so ....