By Stephen J. Gray
They shuffle their paper around the world
Betting on commodities, “free market” banners unfurled
Speculating on food to make a profit
While the poor go hungry and starve because of it
Boosting the prices in many a nation
This is the game of commodities speculation
Fortunes are made in the wink of an eye
And the price of rice goes sky high
The “free marketeers” in food are making a killing
People are dying, while the speculators are living
These financial vultures in their luxury office towers
Are “money managers,” Oh what a shower!
No sweat, no labour: These are society’s non-producers
Manipulating prices and betting on futures
These are the rich and the present-day “street people”
In the French revolution they hanged them from a steeple
But that was in the time of barbarism
Now we call it capitalism
“Let the marketplace decide,” they cry
And if there are losses the taxpayers are standing by
The peoples’ taxes will bail out any losses
And huge salaries are paid to the financial bosses
These are the new rulers of all they survey
And their motto is, “Make the people pay.”
For financial manipulation is “honest toil?”
And they keep betting up the price of oil
The people will have to learn to survive, they say
For this is the paper shufflers’ day
Stephen J. Gray
June 8, 2008.
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