The Banks Got Bailed Out

Occupy Chicago, LaSalle & Jackson, September 24, 2011

The banks got bailed out, we got sold out. 

From the first steps of life we were taught work is rewarded.

An upstanding person was responsible, not sordid.

Unto the self a debt is owed to strive for what was awarded,

Slowly, however, that has become distorted.

The banks got bailed out, we got sold out.

In this age, and the one just past,

Work and service are considered a gaff,

Trapping  the young unsuspected for the rich man’s laugh.

And the only way off is to turn to graft.

The banks got bailed out, and we got sold out.

Promises were made to assure middle class,

But the new master’s ed gave it a pass,

To no one did they owe what was amassed,

Into their coffers the taxes did pass.

The banks got bailed out, and we got sold out.

One dirty deal followed another,

Horrible low pay and bad loan did smother.

Cost keep float up, and pennies given to child and mother.

We were assured it was righteous by the Good Reverend Brother.

The banks got bailed out, we got sold out.

All this while the corporate class,

Did all they could to give Americans a pass.

Sent the jobs to far flung hungry mass,

Emaciating our industry, productivity with out-right sass.

The banks got bailed out, and we got sold out.

So when the dirty paper came due,

The called up the President’s few,

Plans were made and messages flew,

The Corporate Government knew just what to do.

The banks got bailed out, and we got sold out.

And after they were all propped up,

They hired the local establishment cop,

And again they made sure the citizens dropped,

Out to the street, evictions did not stop.

The banks got bailed out, and we got sold out.

And most who toiled private sector,

Not protected by the public vector,

Were the exorcised the like a fading specter.

Even the progressive was their beloved laureate lector.

The banks got bailed out, we got sold out.

One by one the citizens accounts exhaust,

Stormed by Sheriffs possessions tossed,

Did not matter if they once paid full cost,

Out to the curb, abandoned, and lost .

The banks got bailed out, we got sold out.

So this was the setting on the mid-September date,

When a few hundred souls began to demonstrate.

Enough of the crime and graft and hate,

We were all citizens sharing the same fate.

The banks got bailed out, we got sold out. 

Occupy Chicago, LaSalle & Jackson, September 24, 2011