Back in the good old day, that one day before they took single payer off the table, we had hope. Now we have the austerity of hope....
Songs to afflict those who make everyone else uncomfortable.
Dave Lippman travels the world taking the air out of the windbags of the week, de-distorting history, and rewriting the classics with parody and thrust. He also presents the world's only known singing CEO, the Bard of the Bankers, Wild Bill Bailout, who employs anti-folk songs and interventionary anthems to explain (and enforce) that the business of America is none of your business, that those too big to fail are also too big for jail, and that the jobless and foreclosed must bail out their own boats.
Story behind the song
Real health care reform is a big threat to the health care denial industry, as healthy people who don't pay the privateers are threatening 1/6th of the economy. That would be like, I dunno, bailing out the banks. Except it would be bailing out the people. No percentage in that eh?
Lyrics
Hey grandpa, you’ve had a good life
Death panels in the sky…
They tried to kill me, with their public option
They’re gonna kill me, if Blue Cross don’t get there first
They want to kill all the babies and the old people too
Take away my choice of doctor like the current system do
Big government will tell me everything I cannot do
I prefer to have free enterprise control my life, thank you
How do I know this, these facts that you call dreck
I’ll tell you quick, I’m in a Rush….
It comes straight from Glenn Beck
You may say it’s all exaggerated, or not even true, golly gee
Just because it’s been repudiated by those commies, at the AARP
Cuz I’m a tea-party American, a true patriot
Trying to save bizness and guns from socialistic rot
It’s in the constitution that immigrants must leave
And if your health care plan bankrupts you, I ain’t gonna grieve
Chorus:
Cause I got mine Jack
You lazy bums get back
I won’t let my taxes climb
To help some kid who isn’t…mine
I’m goin to a tea party, I’m goin to a tea party, I’m goin to a tea party
I’m gonna say to hell with karma
With all my friends from Big Pharma
Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Those Nazis in the White House are preparing further crimes
I read all about it in the Washington Times
Obama’s just like Hitler, draw a moustache, you’ll see
He wants to give the lazy poor my flat panel TV
OK he’s not killing fags, unless they’re very old
But he’s still a Muslim, he hates Jews so I’m told
I can tell because my eye for detail does not fail, to wit
One time he went to Egypt and not to Israel, that’s it!
We need the GOP back, they’re real Americans
They never did anything to hurt anyone of their class
Mark my words, this gang of White House Reds
Will put our country in the red
Oh wait, someone beat them to it, oy, is our ass grass
Chorus
Cause I got mine Jack
You lazy bums get back
I won’t let my taxes climb
To help some kid who isn’t…mine
I’m goin to a tea party, I’m goin to a tea party, I’m goin to a tea party
We’ll all be equal in that place
Me and my good old boys from JP Morgan/Chase
(spoken)
OK it’s true that all of this is, um, false
But an administration that supports abortion
Naturally will eventually support death panels
If they support a public option, it will inevitably abolish free enterprise
If they disagree with me, they will undoubtedly put me in jail
Where I will continue to fight for freedom, with one change:
I’ll have health care
Cause I got mine, Jack!
