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"SING A SONG OF PARLIAMENT"

SING A SONG OF PARLIAMENT, 
POCKETS FULL OF CASH. 
FRAUDULENTLY CLAIMING, 
AND ADDING TO THEIR STASH. 
WITH THEIR PLOY DISCOVERED, 
THEY SAID THEY'LL GIVE IT BACK. 
IF YOU OR I HAD DONE THE SAME, 
WE'D PROMPTLY GET THE SACK. 

SING A SONG OF FREEBIES, 
SNOUTS ALL IN THE TROUGH. 
GIVING BACK THEIR ILL-GOT GAINS, 
IS JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH. 
SPONGING OFF OUR EARNINGS, 
WITH A LIKELY TALE. 
IF WORKING FOLK HAD DONE THE SAME, 
THEY'D SOON END UP IN JAIL. 

SING A SONG OF FRAUDSTERS, 
COUNTING OUT THEIR MONEY. 
THEY SMILE AND LOOK QUITE UNASHAMED, 
AS THOUGH THEY THINK IT'S FUNNY. 
SITTNG IN A SECRET PLACE, 
COUNTING OUT THEIR DOSH. 
ON PLUGS FOR BATHS AND CLEANING MOATS, 
FOR CRISPS AND ORANGE SQUASH. 

SING A SONG OF MP's, 
WHO TOOK US FOR A RIDE. 
IT'S UP TO US AT ELECTION TIME, 
THEIR FUTURE TO DECIDE. 
IT'S GONE TOO FAR TO BRING BACK TRUST, 
OF ANYONE IN POWER. 
TO MOST OF US THEY'LL ALWAYS BE 
A REALLY GREAT BIG SHOWER. 
 (AND A BUNCH OF CROOKS). 

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SLOW DAY IN TEXAS
It's a slow day in a little East Texas town. The sun is beating down,and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit......On this particular day a rich tourist from back east is driving through town. He stops at the motel and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.
As soon as the man walks upstairs, the owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher. The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill at thesupplier of feed and fuel. The guy at the Farmer's Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her "services" on credit. The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel owner.

The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything. At that moment the traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the $100 bill,
states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, andleaves town..
No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the future with a lot more optimism.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government and the UK Government and all western governments are conducting business today.