Simply Red got this right a long time ago now:
The lyrics are:
… I been laid off from work.
My rent is due.
My kids all need
Brand new shoes.
… So I went to the bank
To see what they could do.
They said "Son, looks like bad luck
Got-a hold on you".
… Money's too tight to mention.
I can't get an unemployment extension.
Money's too tight to mention.
… I went to my brother
To see what he could do
He said "Brother like to help you
But I'm unable to".
So I called on my father, father.
Oh my father
He said
… Money's too tight to mention.
Oh money, money, money, money.
Money's too tight to mention.
I can't even qualify for my pension.
… We talk about Reaganomics.
Oh Lord, down in the Congress
They're passing all kinds of bills
From down on Capitol Hill (we've tried them)
… Money's too tight to mention.
(spoken) Cut back!
Money, money, money, money.
We're talkin' about money, money.
We're talkin' about money, money.
We're talkin' 'bout the dollar bill
And that old man that's over the hill.
Now what are we all to do
When the money's got a hold on you?
Money's too tight to mention.
Oh money, money, money, money.
Money's too tight to mention.
Amero-money, oh yeah.
We're talkin' about money, money.
We're talkin' about money, money.
We're talkin' about money, money.
We're talkin' about money, money
But, whatever happens, true socialists demand that the working class must not be told there is a solution to all this.
That would, after all, undermine the struggle.
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Some while ago I read a book about the economic collapse of the Soviet Union
It was written as a novel as the writer found it easier to tell the story that way
BUT what was clear was that in the absence of a ‘market’ with nobody going bust there was massive waste – factories churning out shirts that not even Soviet consumers would buy. No incentive to either buy better plant or reduce waste etc etc
Nothing that the ‘Socialists’ have a clue about
This is Christine Desan’s big point the creation of money (capital) is political. Always a question of who in the way a society is structured more easily gets hold of it and in large amounts which becomes capital to be directed sometimes anti-socially (dominantly) in the interests of the few not the many.