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ANYONE SURPRISED?



Anyone would love to play sports for a living
Five hundred dollar signing bonus five hundred a month
Now I couldn't live on that and didn't sign
Now a player won't play less than a million
Where does all that money come from?
A nice house was $25 thousand dollar you needed credit
Today--the same house is $350,000 and up
A CEO had a nice income, car, boat home on lake
Today, fifteen cars, home in the Bahamas
But most of us do not make that kind of money
We pay taxes, inflamed wages, investment stock retirement
Those above were greedy, they needed more they cheated
Now the rest of us are asked to bail them out
Fire them, sell their cars, houses at deflated prices
Take away the drugs, free retirement and bring America
The free ride and vacations is over for the upper class

The whole financial mess back to reality. A start would
be to make Senators and legislators work for their earnings.







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