Modern Times
In a room in Washington a couple of guys in suits shake hands and you lose your job and eventually your home and your standing in the community and when you’re on the street begging for change people spit at you with disdain it all started in a room in Washington a couple of guys you’ve never even seen how can your fate be decided like that? how is that considered ok? on a day like any other day a deal was made, a contract signed the pipeline came through the taxpayers paid they said it was safe but it was badly designed when the accident happened next to your house it was barely news, they called it the cost of doing business on a day like any other day a deal was made and now people have died how could their fate be decided like that? how is that considered ok? oh oh oh modern times oh oh oh modern times where are the heroes of yesterday to fight the robber barons of this new gilded age? where’s our Teddy Roosevelt, fighting in Washington? where’s our Joe Hill, fighting on the streets? when I get fired for speaking my mind or put in jail for doing what’s right I’m being my own hero today because the robber barons are not going away oh oh oh modern times oh oh oh modern times
Posted Sunday, October 6th 2019
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