The odious
Farm Bill working its way through Congress rewards wealthy agribusiness
while taking food out of the mouths of children by cutting food stamps. This Bill also rewards sugar agribusiness and American Crystal, which locked out its workers for months and put them on the street during the worst economic crisis in 80 years. Being locked out of a union job during a depression doesn’t put you on the top of the list for any new employment.
Here’s a new poem I wrote about it…
The Odious Farm Bill
Beating their chests in piety
The radical right promises to protect
The Future with their financial assault
On the present
“We gotta protect future generations”
They say while they cut food assistance
To poor kids
Continue a ruinous sequester that
Forces more and more layoffs
In the public sector
More pain for all us reg’lar folks,
Working folks and our kids
While the bosses and their boys and girls
In Congress pile up heaps of money
Let it rain for the rich assholes
While the bellies of our kids hurt.
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