Monday, 2 February 2015

Children: A Blessing...

…And A Curse

More and more children
          and more
        on the way
            because
  someone else
Is paying for them…

No more money
In the mail
For females
To have children
                          on
Someone else's
       hard-earned
                     dime.

To the charge of being,
          quote, "cruel,"
        I say, simply:
You have no call
               on other 
 people's money.
               You see,
                 money
         doesn't just 
       miraculously
                 appear
     as though out 
  of  thin air.  
                     Well,
          in one way
               actually
                 it does.  
                       But 
              to clarify:
  'the government'
     has no money
     of its own.
     It borrows
     from some
     and extracts
     from others
     under threat
     of prison:
  the taxpayers.

              So stop
 with your nonsense
About 'cruelty'.
                    What
          is really
     cruel
Is a government
Saddling
Its people
In the future
With its own debt.
                     How
      would you
      like it
To be so saddled
Like a horse
Of burden
Carrying other
People's load
Of responsibility
For ever
And ever
Amen?  -
          like the giant
          Ponzi
          scheme
       that it is
                   now
 and more truly??

thought
so.


Time
For a change.
And let's make it
A major
One.
And get rid
Of money
Altogether.
It has been
A blessing, yes,
        in many
        ways.
But a curse
In more.
For being based
On personal
Aggrandizement
          rather than
          on
          mutual
          support.
      Another word
      for which
      in
      its essence
      is
                    
      Love.

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