Plenty for Everybody

The Horn of Plenty hasn't stopped its bounteous application

On the landscape and the stores of this, our greedy nation.

Silk and satin, fine-grained wood, stainless steel a-shining –

All of this, and much, much, more, our groaning shelves are lining.

Cars that run on batteries and solar-paneled housing,

iPods, Kindles, Kobe beef, and champagne for carousing –

it's everywhere from Kennebunk to hamlets in "Kentuck"—

available to anyone who has an extra buck.  

But if you're out of work, on Medicare, or in retraining,

You can't afford the time of day – there's no use in complaining.

If you've got some bootstraps, better pull 'em up, because

The government this time around will not be Santa Claus.

For ev'ry job they do create a thousand disappear;

Their economic packages deserve a good Bronx cheer.

If you need a real job go teach English overseas –

Where they want to learn about our former expertise!