Kiss The A*s Of The Ruling Class

"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" John Lydon AKA Johnny Rotten. Former front man for the Sex Pistols

A lesson learned from history
The winners make the rules
Seduce us all with promises
and play us all for fools

Rub our dicks with easy credit
so everyone gets paid
Then hide the catches in fine print
Some sleaze ball lawyers made

Conned us with their mortgage scams
Then took our jobs away
Snatching candy from a baby
When greed carried the day

Then came the great catastrophe 
The bubble had been burst
So many crooked loans they wrote
No one could reimburse 

So they cried like little b*****s
For government bailouts
As for us trapped in the middle
they just forgot about

Of course there was no over site
Heaven forbid they pay
Or are even held accountable
for bad decisions made

What happens to economies
thrown into a twister
When we all get victimized by
educated grifters

With open lying to our faces
we let them get away
without any retribution
without a judgment day

How apathetic we have become
with justice never served
We let them walk all over us
We got what we deserved

 

Reviews

[Keith]

Great read, and yes capitalism works well for the rich.

[Baby Ricochet]

Yes it does. Thank you Keith

[Cassie]

This is a reminder of a movie i watched that was full of injustice particularly this line:Conned us with their mortgage scams, this you have done so well. Good one

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Cassie

[KeeD]

Haha that picture, priceless man, bahahaha
You explain the recession so well.. schools should hire you to guest lecture students and future business students. Mad cool write BR

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Keegan. It's good to hear from you

[KAOlmsted]

It takes two to tango, Baby. (Just saying, it never would have happened if people making $250 a week didn't think they could get--and by "get" I mean think they were "OWED" a $500,000 house...) While your piece has a lot of merit, I think your ending line is disingenuous. If you're going to bash the Capitalists, bash them. To say the poor stupid b******s who got "suckered" into buying houses they couldn't afford got what they deserved, well...blame the educational system. Not Capitalists ;-)

Love you!

xoxo

[Baby Ricochet]

Our education system isn't the best. That's for sure. Thank you Kimmer

[KAOlmsted]

*phew* ;-) My pleasure, mark...always.

[Nia Hope]

Stick it to the man Baby!! Awesome poem!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Ankara

[Pryde Foltz]

Another passionate and keen write. On a technical note, I am wondering about the tense change from the first two stanzas to the third. Perhaps you might choose to set in all in the past. You pull no punches most powerful of poets.

[Will]

The proletariat has been trampled by the ruling class. It's a sad fact of our society. You've displayed this fact wonderfully and almost narratively told how it happened. Nicely done

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Will

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

Indeed we did, we just rolled over and took it, a tragic and truthful piece.

[Baby Ricochet]

Sad but true. Thank you

[Mic]

So true Ric. Too bad the ruling class and Washington are one in the same...and the rules disallow the poor from ever having a say. What to do?

Well said.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you mic. It's good to see you

[Mark]

"We got what we deserved". - that says it really. We aren't victims, it is possible for anyone with the gumption to make money.

It's too bad that our education system teaches us to be good little workers rather than finding our own path in this world. Things would be different, I think, if reading a balance sheet and running a business were as common a subject as English and Algebra. Nice work as always Mark. :)

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Mark