END WELFARE AS WE KNOW IT

Anne Feeney

 

Now we should all be irate at this huge welfare state, right here in this mightiest of nations.

AFDC is disgraceful to me, I'm talking aid for dependent corporations

Free enterprise, Hah! The cruelest of lies, it cost us two hundred billion just last year.

If they paid their fair share we'd have billions to spare, it's time to tell them the bucks stop here.

 

Chorus:

It's time to end welfare as we know it, and get those greedy chiselers off the dole,

It's time to end welfare as we know it, teach them a little self-control.

For far too long we've allowed these corporate hogs to belly up to the public trough,

No more welfare as we know it, no more hand-outs, cut them off.

 

Let's consider Charley Hurwitz, the CEO at Maxxam,

holding redwood forests hostage in a vicious little tax scam,

It's clearcut we picked up the tab for Charlie's union busting,

Then paid him to pollute our water, Jesus, that's disgusting.

Charlie won't repay 500 million that he stole,

From a Houston S&L, what say we kick him off the dole.

 

Chorus

 

That Taco Bell chihuahua begs for bucks for Frito-Lay

And Poppin' Fresh from Pillsbury needs more dough every day,

That thief Ronald Mcdonald and his side-kick Mayor McCheesy,

Hamburglarize our treasury in ways that make me queasy,

That nasty little mermaid took tax dollars overseas,

To hire thugs to bring poor Haitian workers to their knees.

 

Chorus

 

They've been picking every pocket here from sea to shining sea,

We must intervene to break this cycle of dependency,

ADM and Cargill, General Motors, Ford & Boeing,

ITT and Lockheed and that welfare line keeps growing, growing, growing

Now Congress says we can't afford to subsidize the needy,

But before we slash the safety net let's tell the truly greedy,

 

Chorus

 

(It's for their own good)

(And we mean business)