A Rhyming History of the Banksters

by Citizen Mofo

We don’t deserve a banking system run by crooks.

Yet that’s just what we’ve got, the way it looks.

They lie, they steal, they double deal, they cook the books,

They claim they’re doing the “work of God”

And Congress is duly shocked and awed.

But I’d say that’s rather odd unless God’s so flawed he favors fraud.

When Congress killed Glass-Steagall was the day

That banks began to see that crime could pay

With no more regulations on predation in their way.

Work hard, play by the rules? “No deal,”

The bankers said. “We’d rather cheat and steal,

And now we’re free, as we should be, to do just as we feel.”

For the government’s been captured, and “We

The People” no longer means you, or you, or me.

It’s “by the bankers, for the bankers” by government decree.

Too big to fail, the bankers act with impunity.

Too big to jail, the banks’ crimes have immunity.

And government, conveniently lenient, provides the opportunity.

Not only did the government defraud

Its citizens to serve its greedy god

It did a quid pro quo on the status quo with the low blow of Frank/Dodd.

Congress was captured being lobby money whores,

The executive branch was captured by revolving doors,

And the SEC and Treasury are full co-conspirators.

We see no diff if the administration

Is Democratic or Republican.

The Bush guys lied; so Obama’s decided that was the way to win.

Paulson was a master of the bait and switch.

Geithner was the bankers’ little bitch.

Both took an oath but nonetheless got filthy freakin’ rich.

So sit down, shut up, it’s my turn to speak.

You may think that you are strong and we are weak.

But right makes might, we’re ready to fight, and it’s justice that we seek.

“Too big to jail” – just another self-serving lie.

Jail the CEO, they’ll just hire another guy.

Put AIG in the penitentiary and no one’s gonna cry.

It’s time to cut the criminal cancer out –

The banks and bankers who brought this mess about

And their admirers and conspirers whom they couldn’t have done without –

Time to cut them out so the system can start to heal;

To put them away for life with no appeal;

To weed out the pigs and break up the bigs that caused this whole ordeal.

We must now re-learn the rule of law.

For if democracy has a fatal flaw

It’s the scale of disaster when the government’s master is Bank of America.