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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392306" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lament for American Progress</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">America messes up the Middle East<br>Leaves itself beholden to dictators<br>And Chinese communist creditors<br>Its public schools are largely a disgrace<br>And she may not notice but the<br>Mutilees de guerre<br>Are almost everywhere</div><div style="margin:10px 0">America never gets anything right<br>Not since World War Two and the rebuilding of Germany<br>Spends its common treasure on foreign misadventures<br>And on handouts to political<br>lobbies and contractors</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then wonders why there's a weak dollar<br>And a financial crisis<br>Corporate execs walk out from the rubble<br>Smiling deep into their bonuses<br>One hand greases off another</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Builds useless walls with Mexico<br>Bans drugs criminalizes the black male populace<br>Builds weapons to threaten from space<br>Never builds coast levees high enough<br>Or accepts its role in global warming</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Loses 2,000-plus souls in a terror attack<br>And spends the next seven-plus years<br>Disputing the design of a monument</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thinks the definition of civilisation<br>Is carrying a gun<br>Can't be bothered even to understand<br>Its own Constitution! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Look up the second amendment<br>And read the whole paragraph -<br>Not just the convenient part!) .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gross malfeasance<br>Of those in government<br>Never gets punished<br>So is constantly repeated<br>Congressional investigations mocked and defeated<br>Senators found guilty of a crime<br>Can't even summon the shame to resign! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">America never gets anything done<br>Blame a corrupt power elite if you will<br>The party hacks on the laps of the lobbyists<br>Instead of the people who keep right on<br>Voting for clowns and crooks or don't vote at all<br>I won't blame you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">America sure got one thing right<br>His name is Obama<br>But if history is a guide<br>We should all be afraid</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For America never got to the bottom<br>America never got to the truth<br>And soon stopped demanding<br>Or even asking for the truth: <br>Who shot John Kennedy<br>And why<br>Who shot Robert Kennedy<br>And why<br>Who shot Martin Luther King<br>And why</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And who is protecting<br>The President now? <br>A President who understands the stakes<br>And the reality of the Power</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Health care reform<br>Is the eye of the storm</div><div style="margin:10px 0">People elect an honest man<br>Through the electoral industry<br>And then the mass corporate interests come<br>To ensure he gets almost nothing done!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</a><div class=q>
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Leaves itself beholden to dictators
And Chinese communist creditors
Its public schools are largely a disgrace
And she may not notice but the
Mutilees de guerre
Are almost everywhere

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