To the New Year

I would like to wish everybody a happy holiday season, and a wonderful New Year.  I would like to end the year on a cheery note.  I would like to celebrate the lengthening days and a resurgence of hope.  But right now, I’m a bit under the weather.

My eyes are runny, my nose is red

I can scarcely breathe when prone in bed

This West Coast cold

Now six days old

Leaves an ache that was my head.

Big Tax Attack

Chuck Grassley let everyone know the motivation behind the new tax attack on the middle class:  “I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing,” Grassley told the Register in a story published Saturday. “As opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”

The middle class is of little concern

They spend every penny they earn

So why help the poor

They’ll just spend some more

But the rich need more money to burn.

With Democrats in power they thrived.  In what should be a more supportive habitat they have disappeared.

The loss of a species is linked

To the tax reform bill to be inked

The loud raucous bird

Is no longer heard

The Deficit Hawk is extinct.

Deficit Attention Disorder

The Party of Fiscal Responsibility wants to increase the deficit dramatically.  In a couple of years they’ll complain about it and reduce every social program they can think of.  I haven’t figured out how they’ll blame the Democrats, but that’s coming too.  It’s all based on voodoo economics, imaginary history and obscenely big buck donations from the ‘deserving 1%’.

They’re out on a tax cutting spree

Ignoring economic history

Growth will soon fade

If cuts are made

But it will strengthen the plutocracy.

The Democrats seethe and scramble while the smiling, smug Hypocrats congratulate themselves and gloat.

The Republican soul has been bared

Congress has clearly declared

Disregard for deficits

If they help the rich

And no deficit hawk even cared.