The state of the union

I dropped by Michael Offutt's blog today and read his post on the "Pixação" (you should go check it out if you haven't yet) which brought up some rather interesting discussion on political protests. Then I stopped by Rusty's over at The Blutonian Death Egg and he said, "I’m pretty sure that upper management types at large corporations and people that hold high ranking political positions (Senators, Congressmen, etc) are sociopaths." Which reminded me of a song that seems more relevant today than it was when it was originally recorded. Anyway, thought I would post it, along with the words and let you say what you have to say.

Padded with power here they come 

International loan sharks backed by the guns 

Of market hungry military profiteers 

Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared 

With the blood of the poor
 

Who rob life of its quality 

Who render rage a necessity 

By turning countries into labour camps 

Modern slavers in drag as 

champions of freedom
 

Sinister cynical instrument 

Who makes the gun into a sacrament -- 

The only response to the deification 

Of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations' 

Idolatry of ideology

North South East West 

Kill the best and buy the rest 

It's just spend a buck to make a buck 

You don't really give a flying fuck 

About the people in misery

IMF dirty MF 

Takes away everything it can get 

Always making certain that there's one thing left 

Keep them on the hook 

with insupportable debt

See the paid-off local bottom feeders 

Passing themselves off as leaders 

Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows 

Open for business like a cheap bordello

And they call it democracy And they call it democracy 

And they call it democracy And they call it democracy

See the loaded eyes of the children too 

Trying to make the best of it the way kids do 

One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast 

To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast 

They call the revolution

IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get 

Always making certain that there's one thing left 

Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt