We only like the students
Who can pay up front with dough
If you don’t have the money
Sorry kid you’ll have to go

Kidneys are a good re-source
You need just one to live
We won’t have to pay more tax
You will be the one to give…..for

Learning is not important
Poor folks do not count we say
We will import trained workers
Let some other country pay!

See photo journal of the Action League (San Francisco Bay Area) Raging Grannies as Billionaires for Fee Hikes as they appeared on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on March 4, 2010. On this national day of student strikes, tens of thousands were on the streets in the SF Bay Area.

Fair campaigning now is a thing of the past.
Those with money own the elections at last!
They’ll buy all the TV ad time,
And run their swiftboat ad slime.
They’ll offer no proof;
To hell with the truth!
Cor-por-a-tions are persons now!

When will the Democrats do what they said they’d do?
Say NO to health insurers and rich folks’ tax breaks, too?
Say NO to more war spending
And troop deployment unending.
It’s change they swore
They voted for,
Not cor-por-ate personhood.
         (So let’s) get out and fight
         With all of our might,
         And do what we know we should.

We need the internet, It must be free
No more screening Or blocking
We are here to instruct the FCC
Say to Comcast, to Verizon
and to A T an-and T
Hands off the internet It must be FREE
Hands off the internet It must be Free

Democracy requires
we have net neutrality
For deMOcracy to function
information must be free
The FCC must do its job
Protect neutrality
Protect the internet!
Glory glory First Amendment
Glory glory First Amendment
Glory glory First Amendment
Pro–tect democracy!

The Action League Grannies of San Francisco Bay Area sang this at a rare FCC hearing, rare because it is highly unusual to have hearings with all commissioners in attendance outside of DC. This hearing on Net Neutrality was held on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. Comcast was subsequently fined by the FCC for violations of internet freedom.

Roll Out the Money
We’ve got elections to buy
It’s the best investment
No other returns are so high.
We’ll get our paybacks
about a million to one.
Yes we need to pay for the campaigns
So the world is ours to run.

We can scare the folks to fund our wars.
Pollute the air and water as we please.
We get tax breaks for promised jobs
Just don’t say that they’re overseas.

We lure votes with ads so full of lies
Thinking’s hard and folks just love their ease
They buy half truths – that’s no surprise
Then watch shows called “reality”.

We own the media and dumb them down,
Fill their brains with sports and crimes & clowns.
They’ll watch the “news” and think they know
What’s going on; but its just a show.

Roll the pork barrel
Cut schools and health care, let’s do.
Cut Social Security
Folks can work all their lives through.
We’ll get more tax breaks
Put all the burden on them
They won’t need retirement income
Cause they’ll drop dead before then.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho
Hee Haw Hee Haw Hee Haw Hee Haw
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ho Ho Ho Ho

America, America.
Democracy was good – but
It’s been sold for campaign gold
The people’s voice / kaput.

Did you ever wonder why we keep on startin’ wars,
Why poor folks’ kids are sent to die while CEOs make more,
Why votes are counted up by those who sell the voting machines?
(It’s ‘cause) we’ve got a corporatocracy – thanks to the Supremes.

 Did you ever wonder who will run for office since
The Supreme Court lifted limits – it really makes us wince.
The rich will buy the candidates and run the whole damn show,
And if you dare to disagree they’ll tell you where to go.

’Cause money buys the White House – and that you can’t deny,
We’ve got the best democracy that ever money can buy!