War on the Poor

War on the Poor

They’re cutting Granny’s pension cheque;

Cutting Jody’s benefit.

Turning off Claude’s support machine

His payments took a hit.

They’re cutting wages at the plant;

Now robots do the work.

Daddy’s working three jobs now

Elon wears a smirk.

The wolf is growling at the door!

It’s the new war on the poor!

Elon fires an exploding rocket

To the ‘Bay of Broken Parts’.

Needs more money for his play things;

His needs go off the charts.

Don is cutting taxes for deserving billionaires;

Stashing billions in his bank.

Bragging to his sea of MAGA;

Ignoring his own think-tank.

The wolf is growling at the door!

It’s the new war on the poor!

He’s bigging up on Putin,

So he can rob Ukraine blind.

Sucking up to Netanyahu

With a Riviera on his mind.

He’s threatening Canada,

Pouring tariffs on his friends.

Breaking all alliances.

Ignoring all the trends.

The wolf is growling at the door!

It’s the new war on the poor!

He’s selling tons of red hats

While counting out his stash.

He and Melania are selling crypto

All that matters is the cash.

The sea of faithful cheer and holler

Trump swaggers and leers

Stealing all their money

Smirking at their cheers!

The wolf is growling at the door!

It’s the new war on the poor!

It’s survival of the fittest

Slaving for the man.

A cog within their machine

Unless inside the Ku Klux Klan.

Who needs the disabled?

The jublified or dim?

Who needs the gays or blacks?

The enemy within.

The wolf is growling at the door!

It’s the new war on the poor!

We’re rounding up the immigrants

(except the ones we marry).

Sending them to hell and back

While we go making merry.

We’ve got enough labour.

Just need to starve them into work.

All those work-shy namby-pambies

Teach them not to shirk.

The wolf is growling at the door!

It’s the new war on the poor!

Opher 10.3.2025

It amazes me that the billionaires, who already have more money than they could possibly spend, are intent on robbing the poor to get even more.

Elon likes to play with his expensive toys and forever needs more cash. $38 billion in government grants and contracts isn’t nearly enough.

Don pretends to be down with the people while squatting on his gold throne in his mansion.

They are sacking people indiscriminately under the guise of draining the swamp while cutting taxes for the billionaires and donating lucrative multi-billion contracts to their ‘friends’ and supporters.

It’s chaos. A blizzard of Executive Orders. Who needs democracy when you can rule as a King without restraint? Throw enough into the air and people can’t see the corruption. So snuggle up to Putin, strangle Ukraine, genocide in Gaza, rape the national parks, take your foot of the brake with oil. World War 3, The Future? Who cares? Lots of money to be made.

Boris Johnson used to say that if you want to divert attention from what you are doing throw a dead cat on the table. Musk, Vance and Trump are dumping a truckload of rotting corpses on to their table.

A narcissist only cares about himself.

A sociopath doesn’t care about the harm they do to others.

A psychopath actually takes pleasure from hurting others.

A megalomaniac wants to rule the world.

We are in the midst of a new war on the poor and weak. Plenty money to be made! You just have to be a callous bastard!

Poetry – Death by a thousand cuts

Death by a thousand cuts

Driving out the immigrants.

Kicking out the nurses.

Dumping all the doctors.

Counting all the hearses.

Not needing the carers

Sneering at low pay

Bin men and veggie pickers

Sent on their way.

Giving all the tax cuts

To wealthy corporations

Hammering public servants

Right across the nation.

Inviting private companies

In a dive to the bottom

Hens come home to roost

Whole system’s rotten!

Opher – 22.4.2020

The stupidity of Brexit, the fear of immigrants, the hostile environment – it’s all driven away nurses, doctors, carers, vegetable pickers, drivers and shelf-stackers – all the people we now realise we really need.

Ten years of Tory austerity running down the NHS, starving public services, while giving away tax cuts to the wealthy.

Now we see the stupidity of running down the NHS and driving all those people away. It turns out that the low-paid and public servants are highly valued members of society!