• Rev@ihax0r.com
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    1 year ago

    i’m not buying it. Sure he could be a confederate apologist but if you are writing a song about some rich old dudes in DC screwing the rest of us over its some hard rhymes. When I heard the song he pronounced the word “rich men” and “richmond” nearly identically. I was like what does “rich men north of rich men” mean, then later I heard “richmond north of richmond”

    Looking at the lyrics he was complaining that we have people in the streets with no food to eat while there are obese people getting fat on welfare. Sounds like he thinks government is incompetent.

    I saw a stat years ago that if we took all the money we spent each year on welfare and just gave the people those programs were trying to help straight cash we would have 5x the amount needed to push them all over the poverty line.

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      I saw a stat years ago that if we took all the money we spent each year on welfare and just gave the people those programs were trying to help straight cash we would have 5x the amount needed to push them all over the poverty line.

      *Something, something can’t give money to poor people. Something, something, give money to rich people. *

      The bullshit argument that is all about hating and punishing poor people. With nice extra boot lick the rich.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I heard that argument from the “right” and “left” yeah people would gamble all their money away then what.

        Its basic income, if you want more go produce something. But we should treat people like adults and stop treating them like children.

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          1 year ago

          Sure but I doubt whoever wrote this aong actually intended for the listener to have a reasonable takeaway.