Billionaires are telling us that the problem is immigrants!

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The real problem is exploitation by billionaires!!

Who Cares About Voters?

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Poetry – CASH!!

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CASH!!

The government prints as much as they like

And tells us there’s a shortage – ‘So get on your bike!’

There’s plenty for bombers, missiles and fools,

But none left over for hospitals and schools.

They give it to the bankers in truckloads and more!

But the nurses and teachers just have to stay poor.

Its value is really all in the head,

But we use for buying champagne and bread.

I reckon it’s time to sort out its worth.

How much we all get shouldn’t be based on our birth.

Why should celebrities and bankers get paid so well?

While the rest of the country has to wish in the well.

It’s time that we sorted the real worth of our time

Cos we’re all being robbed in a continuous crime!

Opher – 8.7.2019

We have a two-tier society. Most of us earn money in ‘real’ worth but a small elite of celebrities, sportspeople, bankers, executives, politicians and entertainers live in a different world.

Seemingly our time is calculated in cash per hour but theirs is calculated in truckloads.

It seems to me that the real value of a human being is not being worked out properly.

Money, Money Money (But … only for some – Mone, Mone Mone). Tories need bailing out!!

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Seems ironic to me that the Tory Brexit has driven out the ‘cash cow’ of the economy – the financial sector.

Now, with the country wrecked, the pools looking dire and Tory funds at a record low they are looking to be bailed out!!

The wheels are already off!!

Abu Dhabi – Yachts, Skyscrapers and people

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Driving around Abu Dhabi you see a lot of money. A fancy marina, huge skyscrapers. If only the money in the world was spread around more fairly. What a wonderful world it could be. If only we looked after the planet better and didn’t produce so much trashy products, polluting and destroying. If only there were less of us.

Poetry – All that matters is the dosh

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All that matters is the dosh

Give me the moolah!

Give me the dollar!

Don’t give a toot –

Just give me the loot!

Give me the dosh Tosh!

I don’t care about no chimpanzee;

I just wanna go on a spending spree!

I don’t care about no bird or bee!

I just wanna lotta cash for free!

Give me the moolah!

Give me the dollar!

Don’t give a toot –

Just give me the loot!

Give me the dosh Tosh!

I don’t care about the climate or planet!

Just want a cool million and need to plan it!

I don’t care about ivory or why to ban it!

I don’t care – so you can can it!

Give me the moolah!

Give me the dollar!

Don’t give a toot –

Just give me the loot!

Give me the dosh Tosh!

I don’t care about nothing so give me the cash!

I just care about me – so keep off of my stash!

I’ll sell you palm oil to get my hands on my loot!

Orangutan or elephant – shoot  shoot shoot!!

Give me the moolah!

Give me the dollar!

Don’t give a toot –

Just give me the loot!

Give me the dosh Tosh!

For the tiger and lion I don’t give a feck!

Just make sure my name’s on the cheque!

I’ll dig your mines – dump shit in the seas,

Slaughter your whales and chop down your trees!

Give me the moolah!

Give me the dollar!

Don’t give a toot –

Just give me the loot!

Give me the dosh Tosh!

I’ll gaff your porpoise to get my hands on the lucre

Sell you skank and tell you it’s pukka.

I don’t care if all the ice melts and the whole world’s war!

All I want is more more more moore!!!

Give me the moolah!

Give me the dollar!

Don’t give a toot –

Just give me the loot!

Give me the dosh Tosh!

Opher – 14.10.2018

This poem came out of talking to some quite extreme right-wing Americans on the web. As far as they were concerned compassion, caring and equality were for wimps. All they cared about was their stash.

Taxation was theft. As for education and healthcare – it should only be there for the deserving. If you wanted it you paid for it. If you couldn’t afford it – tough!

There was no global warming, no environmental crisis, no species extinctions. It was all a lie put out by the left – the evil left. They bought off scientists to fiddle the results.

The evil left, and the Jews, were in a conspiracy to bring Communism to the world, Communism was tyranny. Communism killed billions. It has never worked anywhere. Seemingly socialism is communism.

Well I think that the mark of a healthy society is based on how well they care for their unfortunate or needy.

The mark of a sick society is when those in need are treated like scum and left to rot.

America, with its grotesque inequality and callousness, seems to be going through a pretty sick phase. Rampant capitalism has eroded its soul. I hope the pendulum is swinging towards a new age of compassion. I hope it grows out of its selfishness soon.

The Truth

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I find it sad that people are brought up to believe that the purpose of life is to own more than you could possibly spend, to use any means to gain even more and never to think about the misery we are creating by our actions.

Abstraction makes us king.

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Human beings are the most dominant force on the planet because of our ability to create and buy into unifying abstract ideas such as money, nations and religions.

 

These things are purely subjective but our psychological commitment makes them real.

 

We are brought up in societies where every person around us, every ritual and action, plus all the edifices, reinforces the myth and unifies the population into believing the story.

 

There is a god in heaven. We know this even though we have never seen him, because all our family believe it, the community all come together to makes sacrifices, perform rituals, feasts, ceremonies and offerings, and there are strict dietary requirements to conform to, dress codes to follow and daily prayers, and there are huge temples, synagogues, cathedrals and mosques all built in his name. Why would anybody commit such huge resources over hundreds of generations if it wasn’t true?

 

Every day we are regaled with tales of heaven and hell in great detail. These tales are so intricate, so lavish, so universally accepted that it must be true. So we commit to the story and become part of the myth. We pass it on to our children.

 

Likewise with nations. We buy into the patriotic myth of an artificially produced country that was invented by people. It protects us, gives us opportunities, rights and freedoms and we believe it is better than other countries because we have bought into the myth of its greatness. Along with everyone else we stand for our anthem, salute the flag and say our pledge of allegiance. We buy into the myth of its shared history, past glories, heroic struggles, the sacrifice of its heroes, the endurance of its citizens and the unique attributes of its people. These attributes, usually racially founded, give our nation supremacy over others.

 

Then there’s money.

Pink Floyd – Money – lyrics

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The inequality is the root of most of the problems in the world. There are trillionaires buying Lear jets, mansions and yachts while one third of the world starve. The jobless starving are desperate to migrate to somewhere where they can get a job and make a life. The desperate turn to superstition and fundamental religion. The hatred breeds racism, misogyny and war.

It is crazy.

Yet most people get on the merry-go-round in search of happiness through wealth. They would cut their grandma’s throat to get their hands on a stash.

There is a better way. Money does not buy happiness – fulfilment does and that comes from achieving something that was hard. You don’t get fulfilment by winning the lottery; you get by climbing a mountain or writing a book. It comes from your family and love.

Money – who gives a shit? Someone needs to sort it out a lot more fairly!!

“Money”

Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and you’re O.K.
Money, it’s a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stashThe inequality
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I’ll buy me a football team

Money, get back
I’m all right, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, it’s a hit
Don’t give me that do goody good bullshit
I’m in the hi-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a Lear jet

Money, it’s a crime
Share it fairly but don’t take a slice of my pie
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a rise it’s no surprise that they’re giving none away