The
Barmy Barley Bill
(on Farm Bill, signed May 13, 2002)
Oversupplied and subsidized, we'll sell
Our grains at depressed prices overseas.
Though foreign farmers of their miseries tell,
We're ploughing on, deaf to our neighbors' pleas.
To boost the bumpkin as it best beseems,
Bush blithely barters with our revenue.
The divine right of presidents, it seems,
Is buying favors out of taxes due.
The profligate protectionist pays out
200 billion dollars for our farms
Lining the pockets of the landed lout
Who, overstocked with wealth, builds bigger barns.
Let him be wary of this Lord's decree:
"This night thy soul shall be required of thee."
May 2002
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