For D.T.
Beware the libertarians
(A most unseemly lot).
They’re certainly not agrarians—
They wish to sail on yachts.
“Drop regulation—leave us be—
Chop away those taxes!
Don’t you see, that markets free,
Yield the best climaxes?
“It’s true we don’t produce much stuff
(Though very skilled at lev’rage).
We’re rough and tough and good at bluff—
Champagne’s our favored bev’rage
“We wish we could go back to when
Work was commodity.
When wages could be cut at whim—
There was no SEC.
“When unions were a felony
And workers docile, weak.
Those are the days we yearn to see
The days when profit peaked.
“Those robber barons (much maligned!)—
They made this country great.
Let’s emulate them, stop decline
Enhance our country’s fate.
“Taxation’s theft! We all know that!
And regulation sucks!
Free us to be aristocrats
And suck up all the bucks!”
Thus speak the libertarians—
And, what is most obscene,
They mock us poor contrarians
(Who oil our guillotines).
Their lust for pelf makes them forget
Historical solutions—
Downtrodden folks rise up—reject—
In bloody revolutions!
So listen, libertarians—
To best insure your wealth
Attend the proletarians,
And thus protect your health.
(3/13/10)