The BuzzFlash Mailbag, August 7, 2003They kept taking
First they took our steel mill jobs, and the people ignored the cries of steel mill workers.
Then they took our textile jobs, and the people ignored the cries of textile workers.
Then they took our automotive jobs, and the people ignored the cries of automotive workers.
Then they took our high-tech jobs, and the people ignored the cries of high-tech workers.
Then they bribed the people's representatives in Washington and the people ignored their loss.
And the only jobs left were in the U.S. Foreign Legion, defending the worldwide assets of those who had taken the people's jobs and stolen the people's government.
The people shouted, "We the people are dead, long live the corporation."
And the high priests of Mammon laughed about how easy it was to destroy the world's longest running, most successful experiment in democracy.
And the thirsty and hungry and sick and imprisoned and naked prayed to Mammon to have mercy on their wretched. miserable bodies because the people had lost the very soul of democracy,
"And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart." (Genesis 6:6)