This is an absolute gem from Iris Dement I was wholly unaware of before it was recommended by Robin Stafford:
The lyrics are here. This is a sampler:
We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines
and their speech is growing increasingly unkind
They say they are Christ's disciples
but they don't look like Jesus to me
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the freeWe got politicians running races on corporate cash
Now don't tell me they don't turn around and kiss them peoples' ass
You may call me old-fashioned
but that don't fit my picture of a true democracy
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the freeWe got CEO's making two hundred times the workers' pay
but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage
and If you don't like it, mister, they'll ship your job
to some third-world country 'cross the sea
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
It's worth reading the rest.
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Thanks Richard – the corporate capture of God is one of the biggest diseases in current American culture.
I’ll give it a look.
Richard,
Might I suggest Hope Street by the Levellers for you next installment, I find the final verse quite apt…
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Thanks
Takes an artist to say it how it is!
Considering this was written in 1996 it is so prescient….
CEO pay is now over 350 times the average worker in the US, they still fight like hell against raising the minimum wage and there’s not many jobs left that they haven’t outsourced and offshored. What a country!
Yesterday after listening to the chancellor mention increases of stamp duty, I thought, I’ll bet there are ways that the tax cheats will find ways round it, so I did a little casual research on the internet. (I’m retired, so have time for these things.) I came across Fudicia who I assume are a firm of accountants. They advertise that they can get you out of paying stamp duty.
This morning, listening to this, scrawled across the picture of Iris DeMent, was an advert by fiducia.co.uk/stamp duty, telling me to avoid stamp duty legally.
The paradox nearly made me laugh. but them I decided it was more appropriate to weep.
I would assume this is something to do with cookies (is that correct), and that Fiducia’s computer thinks I could be interested in cheating on stamp duty.
I am sure it is cookies
But deeply ironic