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The Ron Paul is off the wall talking blues

from February Singing by mike skliar

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This song is about US Presidential candidate Ron Paul.

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The Ron Paul Talking Blues

He’s a small old man with a great big nerve
Wants to get rid of the Federal Reserve
The Fed’s been in business since 1913
But Ron Paul thinks its all an evil scheme

Instead he believes in these Austrian economists.. sorry Ron, but when it comes to economists, I’m sticking with Nobel prize winner Paul Krugman, who said, and I’m paraphrasing a little bit here.. “Ron Paul, you’re full of crap!”


Social security, he wants it to vanish
Medicare and Medicaid, he would banish
federal aviation administration –gone
you want to land an airplane, you’re on your own

Sorry Ron, I kind of like when the airplane I’m on lands safely, the food I eat and the air I breathe isn’t poisoned by free market industry… I guess you need to read you some Upton Sinclair. You want to party like it’s 1899, and I say ... at least let’s party like its 1906! Can we meet halfway?


but those who get high, might like this fact
he’d end the war on drugs, and the patriot act
goodbye Guantanamo , and United States wars
but goodbye Civil Rights Act of 1964

You know, I kind of like the Civil rights Act of 1964… seems to me Ron, you’re afraid of the Federal government anything , but you’d let some half-assed state government disenfranchise minorities, allow discrimination, bust Unions, … didn’t we form this thing called the United States for a reason?

it’s a strange mix of crackpot and correct
he’d rather see folks with no health care than a penny of debt
so when kids die of diseases that could’ve been prevented
he’ll say the free market made good on its incentives

yeah, there’s that sacred cow again, ‘free market’. So if all the insurance companies decide to take away people’s health insurance if they have a pre-existing condition, I guess the ‘free’ market is gonna make a society free from people with pre-existing conditions… boy it’s gonna get awful lonely out there for the 17 healthy people left! But I can hear you free market types say that ‘the free market helps everybody’. Does that include the 30 million up to now who have no health care? Well, they do have health care, but no health insurance. As they have no insurance, they don’t see doctors who could help prevent all sorts of problems they might have later, but they have no money or means to pay for that. So they have to wait till things get really serious and they end up in emergency rooms. Guess who pays for that- you and me. So ‘free markets’ are not always free.


he’s an MD with a bitter pill to swallow
with a dedicated following who love to follow
but he’s got as much of a chance of getting very far
as Steven Hawking has of winning Dancing with the Stars

Yeah, I guess that sums it up.. Ron Paul wants to party like it’s 1799.. Only problem is, if you look outside your window, it isn’t 1799 anymore, at least not outside my window. Your calendar may vary….and of course if it is 1799, then unless you’re a white, male, Christian (and specifically protestant) and you own land, you won’t be able to vote. Ron Paul wants 1799, he can have it!


© M. Skliar 2012

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from February Singing, released March 4, 2012

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