{"id":31408,"date":"2015-11-26T12:21:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T12:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=31408"},"modified":"2015-11-26T12:21:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T12:21:54","slug":"music-for-the-economy-of-2015-livin-in-the-wasteland-of-the-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/11\/26\/music-for-the-economy-of-2015-livin-in-the-wasteland-of-the-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Music for the economy of 2015: Livin&#8217; in the Wasteland of the Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an absolute gem from Iris Dement I was wholly unaware of before it was recommended by Robin Stafford:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Livin&#039; in the Wasteland of the Free   Iris DeMent\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SYqDpL0YCvI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The l<a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutelyrics.com\/lyrics\/view\/iris_dement\/wasteland_of_the_free\/\" target=\"_blank\">yrics are here<\/a>. This is a sampler:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and their speech is growing increasingly unkind<\/em><br \/>\n<em>They say they are Christ's disciples<\/em><br \/>\n<em>but they don't look like Jesus to me<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We got politicians running races on corporate cash<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Now don't tell me they don't turn around and kiss them peoples' ass<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You may call me old-fashioned<\/em><br \/>\n<em>but that don't fit my picture of a true democracy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We got CEO's making two hundred times the workers' pay<\/em><br \/>\n<em>but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and If you don't like it, mister, they'll ship your job<\/em><br \/>\n<em>to some third-world country 'cross the sea<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It's worth reading the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/11\/26\/music-for-the-economy-of-2015-livin-in-the-wasteland-of-the-free\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}