[Newspoetry] Clinton's Crocodile Tears

[Mike Lehman]

The President went on a tour of the mean streets of America this week.
After six-and-a-half years of ignoring poverty in our country, except
for "ending welfare as we know it" and locking up increasing numbers of
the underclass for crimes which middle and upper-class people get away
with everyday, Bill Clinton felt that he should do something with the
.0017 of a percent of time that he had to spare to address these issues
during his administration.

WE MUST KEEP OUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT!

Its ironic that those of the poor that still feel there is any point in
voting in our present money dominated electoral system, voted for the
President in overwhelming numbers.  The reality is that they ARE getting
their money’s worth under the present rules.  The percentage of the
President’s attention is just about exactly equal to their financial
contribution to his campaign.

ITS YOUR MONEY THAT REALLY COUNTS, NOT YOUR VOTE!

 Their votes mattered little, being assured to Clinton by all the
political propaganda that convinced the voting poor that Bill was
feeling their pain.   Not to mention that by bringing this up now, the
President will never have to run a campaign again, where he would have
to explain to high-rolling corporate contributors that he doesn’t really
mean to empower the poor.

WE STOLE YOUR LAND FAIR AND SQUARE!

Going to the Pine Ridge "Indian" Reservation, the President noticed that
their unemployment rate approaches 75%.   Yet he expects corporate
America to finance "redevelopment" there, with some assistance from the
government.   That’s only just- the government helped the corporations
steal the land on which Native Americans had survived without the white
man’s help for thousands of years.  Poverty and degradation are products
of the Native’s contact with the capitalist system, not a natural result
of their inability to adapt to modernity.

CAPITALISM HAS TRIUMPHED- HISTORY IS OVER- GET OVER IT!

After many years, Leonard Pelletier and other Native American activists
are still locked up on trumped-up charges that resulted from them
defending their people against government-sponsored terrorism during the
FBI’s Cointelpro campaign against those who oppose the present system.
By keeping them imprisoned and trying to buy off a new generation of
leaders with government funds, Clinton is perpetuating the System of
Subservience that is the real root of the Capitalist System.

WORK MAKES YOU FREE!

Remember the last place that slogan was used, now that its one of the
more popular slogans in Bill Clinton’s America?  It was also a
government reservation, a little spot of ground called Auschwitz.   I
find the parallels to be many and disturbing.

BILL REPEATS HIS ACT  IN OTHER IMPOVERISHED COMMUNITIES DURING HIS FOUR
DAY TOUR.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!