Give us your deprived, your malleable muddled masses <br />hoping for a gentler taskmaster <br />Welcome to the multi-trillion dollar industry, Poverty <br />A.K.A, cheapest labor force <br /> <br />Poverty works, never ever unemployed <br />A much needed commodity to justify <br />White-collar crime classes <br />Teaching dastardly deeds—to procure monetary needs- <br />fostering avarice greed <br /> <br />Give us your deprived, your malleable muddled masses <br />hoping for a gentler taskmaster <br />Welcome to the multi-trillion dollar industry, Poverty <br />A.K.A., cheapest labor force <br /> <br />Poverty creates jobs for those financing the societal <br />Institution of ya godda pay more taxes <br />Blaming Poverty on the poor <br />Look! what Enron did to those less fortunate <br />Blaming Poverty on the poor <br /> <br />Did not corporations want a billion dollar welfare check <br />Blaming Poverty on the poor <br />Blaming Poverty on the poor <br /> <br />Give us your deprived, your malleable muddled masses <br />hoping for a gentler taskmaster <br />Welcome to the multi-trillion dollar industry, Poverty <br />A.K.A., cheapest labor force <br /> <br />No penance just punishment augmenting the pillar of economic pillaging <br />Poor people put in the pillory from the political pulpit <br /> <br />Poverty is prime property <br />Poverty pimps portrayed as political preachers purely punitive but polite <br />The pluralization of Poverty provides prestige of the patricians <br /> <br />Poverty, the promissory note from the bureaucratic infidel <br />The Truth will tell—the truth will tell <br />Poverty the patriotic prisoner on trial for treason <br /> <br />Copyright 2001<br /><br />Josephine DixonBanks<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/blaming-poverty-on-the-poor/
