Story Behind The Song

The inspiration for this song came a series of events (financial crisis, the debt ceiling standoff, fiscal cliff) that made it abundantly clear that the problems in the US won't be fixed until the system is changed. It's tempting to blame our elected officials, but the reality is that they have no choice but to cater to special interests to have any chance of being elected or reelected under the current system. We need to have publicly-financed elections and eliminate the legality of influence over government to solve these problems. The main point of the song is that it is the system that makes our officials ineffective --not the other way around. The key lyric is "Most of them weren't bad, they were just drawn that way".

Song Description

WMD is a nonpartisan discussion of the destructive force of money influencing elections, laws, and government policy. The issues happening now in the US (unemployment and spiraling debt) aren't being fixed, and won't be fixed until changes are made, because Congress represents special interests rather than the citizens that elected them.

Lyrics

Lyrics: WMD

There's a club on the left
And a club on the right
The process of admission
Is forgetting about what's right
Shielded from the problems
They cast upon their droves
Uniting briefly in agreement
To constrain the GAO

The games of the few
They're the weapons of mass destruction
The weapons of mass destruction

Feds fling their dollars
Big business wrangles breaks
Policy to deep pockets
They give then they take
Lots of clubbers winning
From info they accrue
Money gushing everywhere
But seldom to me or you

The weapons of mass destruction
(We owe them a great debt)
Weapons of mass destruction

Unions pay their club dues
Plucked freshly from their waged
So many members valued
Based on how long they've been aged
Building "world-class" teams
Based on chronologic fit
How many Oscars have there been
When the casting's all preset

It's a never-ending party
Of special-interest-fueled mayhem
They're takin' care of everyone
Except for those not them
Most of them weren't bad
They were just drawn ... that ... way
Gen XYZ picks up the tab
It's the new American way

Politicians led by special interests on a mission
Takin' care of everyone
Except for those deficient
They're the weapons of mass destruction
(We owe them a great debt)
The weapons of mass destruction

Playlist Creator	Playlist Name	Date Added
michaelplatzer7967076	R0cK- frisch	5/17/2014