By Stephen J. Gray
They shuffle their paper around the world
Betting on commodities, �free market� banners unfurled
Speculating on food to make a profit
While the poor go hungry and starve because of it
Boosting the prices in many a nation
This is the game of commodities speculation
Fortunes are made in the wink of an eye
And the price of rice goes sky high
The �free marketeers� in food are making a killing
People are dying, while the speculators are living
These financial vultures in their luxury office towers
Are �money managers,� Oh what a shower!
No sweat, no labour: These are society�s non-producers
Manipulating prices and betting on futures
These are the rich and the present-day �street people�
In the French revolution they hanged them from a steeple
But that was in the time of barbarism
Now we call it capitalism
�Let the marketplace decide,� they cry
And if there are losses the taxpayers are standing by
The peoples� taxes will bail out any losses
And huge salaries are paid to the financial bosses
These are the new rulers of all they survey
And their motto is, �Make the people pay.�
For financial manipulation is �honest toil?�
And they keep betting up the price of oil
The people will have to learn to survive, they say
For this is the paper shufflers� day
Stephen J. Gray
June 8, 2008.
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