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When I come for you your transgressions will illuminate for all eternity.
HOMAGE TO A WORD in the 60s one word became symbolic of American frustration with government greed the corporate fat cats were seen as true evil and the word was pure one word four syllables defined a country torn in two the word had beauty as it rolled through the air waves of large cities and colleges where bright minds analyzed deciphered our mysteries so began
the cry that would define a sad era so began the death of the word
revolution
in the 70s the man who was not a crook by his own admission who became our president who had a vision to free the stranglehold that was transportation spoke the words in earnest for the very first time though they would be sidelined
by all his corrupt sickness but the words were officially spoken in earnest by our leaders in congress one word five syllables would define a generation and the word was pure as it rolled off the tongues of the leaders of a nation though the word was alien to the people the workers but to bankers and lawyers it became their new
mantra one word five syllables as they introduced to all a brand new word it was
deregulation
the successor to the president who reeked of evil the one who remains forgotten in time who stumbled and caused much political amusement whose claim to fame is not much at all he quietly softly
secured the passage of the first real change that would cripple a nation through the media the bankers the corporate greed monsters would begin to tell a confused senseless people that the word was useful it would increase their money as the media concealed the true nature and intentions of a political body who chanted the mantra one word five syllables of a land set free by a new rising body forged of media who chose politicians that would heed
their decrees and the word was pure as it rolled off the tongue and the word caught on by enlightened peoples as they shared in the mantra of
deregulation
more leaders would follow both political parties presidents striving for necessary freedom to allow our country to soar as bright eagle unencumbered by government unrestricted by laws
unfettered free trade especially transportation
while bankers sat smiling all the while nodding as a nation began chanting for
deregulation
they rocked through the 80s overturning decades of financial progress in return for promises of theories abhorrent their simplistic childish promises absurd the media now green lighted all carried the message regulation was terrible horrible we say how can there be
a burgeoning economy with such restraints plotted against it with evil regulations and government control and the people all bought it their color tv's delivered them all to a land filled with promises while all around them crumbled but the media now bought run by corporate masters would not show the crumbling decay of a nation and they heightened the cry for a nationwide mantra and the nation it shouted for
deregulation
1976 - Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act 1977 - Emergency Natural Gas Act 1978 - Airline Deregulation Act 1978 - National Gas Policy Act 1980 - Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act 1980 - Motor Carrier Act 1980 - Regulatory Flexibility Act 1980 - Staggers Rail Act 1982 - Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act 1982 - Bus Regulatory Reform Act
1989 - Natural Gas Wellhead Decontrol Act 1992 - National Energy Policy Act 1996 - Telecommunications Act and the mother of them all nearly three decades to achieve 1999 - Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act the Financial Services Modernization Act baby America had finally finally been set free and people rejoiced at their incredible good fortune for their cries had been answered there had been
deregulation
academics rejoiced bankers sat smiling politicians counted money people waved the flag Americans in total danced oblivious joyous dances money was flowing streets were paved business was booming our leaders were hero's with all the money flowing even buses on time running there was only one word for this glorious miracle only one word
deregulation
then big Ken Lay and his henchman, Skilling
took all Americans for a Mr. Toads wild ride they looted and destroyed while California lay burning they brought a once sound economy down to its knees their traders made millions on an energy shortage of corporate fabrication poor Gray Davis removed by irate peoples replaced by Ahnold by Lay, Skilling and Fastow though J. Clifford Baxter did the honorable thing he ate a bullet
to clear his conscience
leaving his blood
as witness
to the corporate greed
of a new generation
that bellowed the words
of a sickness
that run rampant
throughout our great
nation
and the sickness
had a name
it was
deregulation
world leaders smirked
powerful men chuckled all major bankers
money people drivers
sat on sideline
without a blink
of one saddened eye
they moved to the next
greed fest crisis
immune from a conscience
Stanley Milgram was right
they plundered as Vikings
our rich
capitalist
nation
till no more money
was left in their coffers
the banks had run dry
by their own foul submissions
to a culture enraptured
with greed and corruption all the while shouting
much beating of drums the evil amongst us
can be cured don't you see
and politicians shuffled
the media ran snippets
of a utopian world
where all could own housing
and politicians
and bankers
still cried through the media
to a debt weary public
for
deregulation
one word
five syllables
it simply rolls
off the tongue
mass people are yelling
brothers turn on themselves
republicans are evil
democrats are dupes
with pointing of fingers
much crisis has risen
and all those rich bankers
with their back pocket politicians
look on from the side line all the while nodding
much praise do they have
for the fine work evolved
over four long
decades
forty years did it take
an economy they crippled
with the ridiculous
notion
of deregulation
now peoples in ruin
no pension
no money
no jobs
no health care
no food for
their babies
no education
for the masses
unless you have money
you are screwed
as a human
in this
once
great
land
but then out of
the chaos
comes a word
worth repeating
of all oppressed
peoples
throughout
all of time
it's a word
of a people
pushed to the brink
of extinction
with nothing to lose
they chant
revolution.