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Wasteful Military Spending 2012

Vicki — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 03:06:52 +0000

Death unending! Military spending!

What a waste! What a waste!

Reinstate some sanity,

Spend taxes for humanity,

Invest in peace! Invest in peace!

Let’s build schools instead of bombs,

We need jobs! We need jobs!

Don’t spend all our taxes

To fight the “evil axis.”

Invest in peace! Invest in peace!

Missile shields and drones and bombers –

What a waste! What a waste!

While we’re busy making war

We’re neglecting our own poor!

Invest in peace! Invest in peace!

It’s time to end these wars of terror.

Bring ’em home! Bring ’em home!

How many more of us must die

In bloody wars all based on lies?

Invest in peace! Invest in peace!

WHERE DO OUR TAXE$ GO?

Vicki — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 03:04:29 +0000

Do you ever wonder why we always have the funds

For wars and corporate bailouts

And the banks so poorly run?

But we never have the money

For the urgent needs at home,

Like jobs and schools and health care

And homes for everyone?

Chorus:

Wh – ere do our taxes go then?

Forty-seven cents of each tax dollar

Goes to fund the wars!

And that’s got to stop right now!

We can help turn things around now

If we only will decide

To join together and elect

Officials on our side

Who will work to save our planet

And build roads and bridges, too,

To build and not destroy!

Repeat chorus

So call your Senators and Reps

And just be sure they know

That the way they’re spending our tax dollars

Simply has to go.

Be sure they get the message

That we want our taxes back

To build and not destroy!

Repeat chorus

Bring Back Our Tax Dollars

Vicki — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 03:02:04 +0000

Our taxes fly over the ocean,

To fund the Afghanistan war,

But our taxes are urgently needed

Right here for the jobless and poor.

CHORUS:

Bring back, bring back,

Oh bring back those taxes and spend them here.

Bring ‘em back, yes bring ‘em back,

And then how we Grannies will cheer!

Our bridges and highways are crumbling,

Our teachers and schools need support.

The money that’s now spent on killing,

Should be used to wage peace and not war.

REPEAT CHORUS

We should be supporting our students

Who struggle to pay for their loans,

And we should be supporting our families,

While the banks just foreclose on their homes.

REPEAT CHORUS

We’ve worked mighty hard for the money

That we pay every year to the Feds,

And we don’t want it paying for warfare,

When we all could have healthcare instead.

REPEAT CHORUS

We’ve Always Paid our Taxes 2012

Vicki — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 02:58:25 +0000

We’ve always paid our taxes,

We’ve paid them right on time.

We never, ever cheated;

We coughed up every dime.

But we’re sick of always paying for these

Endless, bloody wars

Especially when the payment comes

From the pockets of the poor.

We don’t mind paying taxes

When they pay for things we need

Like schools and jobs and health care

And other worthy deeds.

But when we know our dollars go

To bailouts, bombs and guns

We’ll tell you true, it makes us blue

To see what they have done.

Those greedy corporations

Find loopholes by the score;

They hardly pay a single dime,

While we pay more and more.

Republicans say, “That’s okay,

‘Cause biz’ness needs a break,

So let them be, they ride for free.”

Now don’t that take the cake?

When Uncle Sam gets our tax dollars

We hope that he will heed

These Grannies when we say that they should

Pay for things we need.

We don’t need war and killing,

Or drilling off our shores.

Oh, my! Good grief! We’d get relief

If we stopped these God-damned wars!

Twelve Days of Taxes

Nancy — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:02:04 +0000

On the first day of taxes
my government said to me,
for Schools, Police and Fire Protection.

On the second day of taxes
my government said to me,
Clean drinking water, and
for Schools, Police and Fire Protection.

On the third day of taxes
my government said to me,
Food that’s safe to eat,
Clean drinking water, and
for Schools, Police and Fire Protection.

On the fourth day of taxes
my government said to me,
Emergency health workers,
Food that’s safe to eat,
Clean drinking water, and
for Schools, Police and Fire Protection.

On the fifth day of taxes
my government said to me,
Clean air to breathe,
Emergency health workers,
Food that’s safe to eat,
Clean drinking water, and
for Schools, Police and Fire Protection.

On the sixth day of taxes
my government said to me,
Good roads to drive on,
Clean air to breathe,
Emergency health workers,
Food that’s safe to eat,
Clean drinking water, and
for Schools, Police and Fire Protection.

On the seventh day of taxes
my government said to me,
Sewers to take waste,
Good roads to drive on,
Clean air to breathe,
Emergency health workers,
Food that’s safe to eat,
Clean drinking water, and
for Schools, Police and Fire Protection.

On the eighth day of taxes
my government said to me,
Prisons to hold felons,
Sewers to take waste,
Good roads to drive on,
Clean air to breathe,
Emergency health workers,
Food that’s safe to eat,
Clean drinking water, and
for Schools, Police and Fire Protection.

On the ninth day of taxes
my government said to me,
Parks for play and picnics,
Prisons to hold felons,
Sewers to take waste,
Good roads to drive on,
Clean air to breathe,
Emergency health workers,
Food that’s safe to eat,
Clean drinking water, and
for Schools, Police and Fire Protection.

On the tenth day of taxes
my government said to me,
Libraries for all,
Parks for play and picnics,
Prisons to hold felons,
Sewers to take waste,
Good roads to drive on,
Clean air to breathe,
Emergency health workers,
Food that’s safe to eat,
Clean drinking water, and
for Schools, Police and Fire Protection.

On the eleventh day of taxes
my government said to me,
Health care for our elders,
Libraries for all,
Parks for play and picnics,
Prisons to hold felons,
Sewers to take waste,
Good roads to drive on,
Clean air to breathe,
Emergency health workers,
Food that’s safe to eat,
Clean drinking water, and
for Schools, Police and Fire Protection.

On the twelfth day of taxes
my government said to me,
Help for our veterans,
Health care for our elders,
Libraries for all,
Parks for play and picnics,
Prisons to hold felons,
Sewers to take waste,
Good roads to drive on,
Clean air to breathe,
Emergency health workers,
Food that’s safe to eat,
Clean drinking water, and
for Schools, Police and Fire Protection.

Drones

Sunny — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:47:59 +0000

Guns and bombs, nukes and tanks

Mean lots of money in the bank

For KBR and Boeing too

Who foots the bill?

It’s me and you

Even if they replace tanks

Those for peace cannot give thanks

A company called ITT

Makes unmanned drones for you and me.

Every drone costs thirteen mil

A “safer way” they say, to kill!

Americans, not in harm’s way

But Pakistanis die each day.

Drones over Afghanistan

Kill many women, kids, and men

Controlled from half a world away

They stalk people at work and play.

Thirteen million dollars, wow!

We could use that dough right now

For teachers here and nurses there

And for green jobs everywhere.

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah

Sunny — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:39:21 +0000

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, we’re the 1%

What a shame if you can’t pay your rent

You’re on the street now, who the hell cares

It ain’t no secret, we’re not gonna share!

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, war is so great

We love living in a fascist state

We’ll fill the world with violence and hate!

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, you ain’t got no rights

We’ll stop and frisk you, you better not fight

Empty your pockets, and show us the weed

Didn’t you know, we’ve got prisons to feed!

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, yum yum pepper spray

It’s just a condiment, as Fox would say

Better not protest, or you’ll find out why

We love it so much when it’s in your eyes!

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, greedy are we

Mean and small minded is how we want to be

Helping the needy is so yesterday

We don’t give a crap so, just go away!

Deck the Capitol

Sunny — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:30:15 +0000

Deck the Capitol with cash,