Baloney Bill and Tipper’s Al

Reagan tried!

Bush tried!

But it has taken Bill

Good ol’ Oxford Arkie Bill

to change our country

from the United States of America

to the United Corporations…

of the World

And the Supreme Court

our activist judges

our judicial legislators

have certified

that corporations

are legal persons

entitled to…everything

including free speech for each of their dollars

But if corporations are persons

then how can one corporation

own another?

Hey you can’t have it both ways,

You’re either a person

or you’re not!

But our CEO’s have

learned how to rip-it-off

by paying off

their boards of directors,

by paying off

the investors,

by paying off

the politicians.

The CEO’s are busy

cutting labor costs

replacing workers with machines

moving plants to places

where armies handle

labor issues

The CEO’s are busy

stealing raw materials

from public lands

from indigenous nations

from places where armies

take care of the environment

And the corporations

rule the presidents

and the presidents

lead the armies

and the armies

have their death squads

and the squads

are trained in torture

and the squads

are trained in murder

and the people

are at the bottom

beneath the boots

of brutalized brutalizers!

Bill Baloney and Tipper’s Al,

Newt and the whole Lott of them

are all in their pay

reaching out with sticky palms

to shake the bloody paws

of dictators, generals,

and merchants

of death

And Bill says “thumbs up”

I’m with you!

He flashes his grin

I’m with you!

He signs the welfare assault on the poor

I’m with you!

He guts the national forests

I’m with you!

He protects incompetent FBI Agents

I’m with you!

He covers up CIA drug dealing

I’m with you!

He lets cattlemen rip off public lands

I’m with you!

He gives billions to Netanyahu

I’m with you!

He won’t cut the cold war military budget

I’m with you!

He cuts deals with China

I’m with you!

He takes money from Indonesia

I’m with you!

He works to water down the declaration on

the Rights of Indigenous People

I’m with you!

But it’s time for us to know

that Bill and Al

and Newt and Lott

are only puppets

their strings pulled

by CEO’s and rich robber barons

who make a lot more money!

And that’s only right

ain’t it,

when the corporations rule the world

and so many politicians are

greedy hound-dogs just

slopping it up?

United Corporations of America!

and now our

Uncle Sam

transmuted into

Uncle Corpse!

Jack Forbes

May 1, 1997