The Money Men

   

Resultant from years of financial haggling

The Money Boys come to the fore

Capitalizing on predatory trading

Manipulating for profits galore.

Leveraged stocks and debt obligation

advantage producing high dividend yield,

Squeezing the borrowers mortgage commitment,

Showing the hopeless the foreclosure field.

Passionless people with passionless faces

Smiling with fathomless eyes at your plight,

Knowing that if foreclosure is pending

Return on the sale will turn out all right.

 

Inflationary pressures are gradually worsening

Our Treasury man is flexing his arm

He’s keeping a close eye on monetary policy

Holding the cash rate to stop fiscal harm.

Upside and downsides defy expectation,

Rampantly wobbling the real estate boom,

Uncertainties globally, holding to ransom,

That American sub prime must remedy soon.

 

The high Government spending and big dairy pay outs

The rocketing prices of everyday stuff

Ridiculous rules for control of emissions

And fiscal expansion that’s really too tough.

Domestic inflation is making it harder

The Treasurer’s threatening to hike it this year

Persistent uncertainties running quite rampant

And our money communities sniffing the air.

 

Do you have faith in the bank institution?

Do you trust them with all of your funds?

In the event of collapse do you think you’ll be honoured

With return of deposits in full total sum?

Not on your Nellie my fine young depositor

An unsecured creditor fellow are you,

You go to the back of the line if there’s failure

You’re hung high and dry at the end of the queue.

You can yell and complain till the sun sets my friend

Compose all the letters you like to the judge.

But the fact of the matter in Money Men chatter

Means IT’S LEGAL and ON THIS OUR STATE WILL NOT BUDGE!

 

So the money boys win, never mind about justice

Causing division right here on our plate.

There’s the rich and the poor, the haves and the have nots

Social corrosion in wealth based hate.

Extrapolate out and you witness this worldwide

The fabulous West and the destitute poor,

The pina coladas and Chevrolet excess

Thin starving kids on dirt African floors.

Indulgent young starlets with cocaine teasers

Black Ethiopian mothers in rags.

The fat and the frivolous gorging on beefsteak

Filthy and homeless men begging for f**s.

 

When you bring it all back it’s a fraudulent system

Where the money men cause a division in man

Instead of devising a planet of sharing

They grab and they gouge and they keep all they can.

The God of GET is worshipped widely,  Egocentric, selfish man

Tomorrows future hangs in the balance.

…WOULD YOU LAY ODDS ON GETS’ GREAT PLAN ?

 

 

Marshalg

Mangere Bridge

25 January 2008