{"id":88131,"date":"2025-12-02T08:13:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=88131"},"modified":"2025-12-02T08:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:13:05","slug":"moneys-too-tight-to-mention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/12\/02\/moneys-too-tight-to-mention\/","title":{"rendered":"Money&#8217;s too tight to mention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simply Red got this right a long time ago now:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DrUB0g8Vjgg?si=sBiI1cowzKxn_Ole\" title=\"YouTube video player\" 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 lyrics are:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u2026\u00a0I been laid off from work.<br \/>\nMy rent is due.<br \/>\nMy kids all need<br \/>\nBrand new shoes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 So I went to the bank<br \/>\nTo see what they could do.<br \/>\nThey said \"Son, looks like bad luck<br \/>\nGot-a hold on you\".<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u00a0Money's too tight to mention.<br \/>\nI can't get an unemployment extension.<br \/>\nMoney's too tight to mention.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u00a0I went to my brother<br \/>\nTo see what he could do<br \/>\nHe said \"Brother like to help you<br \/>\nBut I'm unable to\".<br \/>\nSo I called on my father, father.<br \/>\nOh my father<br \/>\nHe said<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u00a0Money's too tight to mention.<br \/>\nOh money, money, money, money.<br \/>\nMoney's too tight to mention.<br \/>\nI can't even qualify for my pension.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u00a0We talk about Reaganomics.<br \/>\nOh Lord, down in the Congress<br \/>\nThey're passing all kinds of bills<br \/>\nFrom down on Capitol Hill (we've tried them)<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u00a0Money's too tight to mention.<br \/>\n(spoken) Cut back!<br \/>\nMoney, money, money, money.<br \/>\nWe're talkin' about money, money.<br \/>\nWe're talkin' about money, money.<br \/>\nWe're talkin' 'bout the dollar bill<br \/>\nAnd that old man that's over the hill.<br \/>\nNow what are we all to do<br \/>\nWhen the money's got a hold on you?<br \/>\nMoney's too tight to mention.<br \/>\nOh money, money, money, money.<br \/>\nMoney's too tight to mention.<br \/>\nAmero-money, oh yeah.<br \/>\nWe're talkin' about money, money.<br \/>\nWe're talkin' about money, money.<br \/>\nWe're talkin' about money, money.<br \/>\nWe're talkin' about money, money<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>But, whatever happens, true socialists demand that the working class must not be told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/12\/02\/why-is-the-left-so-frightened-of-mmt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">there is a solution to all this.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That would, after all, undermine the struggle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simply Red got this right a long time ago now: The lyrics are: \u2026\u00a0I been laid off from work. My rent is due. My kids<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/12\/02\/moneys-too-tight-to-mention\/\"><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":[204,35,174,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-modern-monetary-theory","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88131","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=88131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88133,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88131\/revisions\/88133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}