I.M.F.

Uncle Sam's in London, looking seedy as he meets
with the Group of 20 'round a table with plush seats.
China thinks the dollar should retire right away --
it is old and tattered and has seen a better day.
India will not be quick to help the I.M.F.
They think it's a yankee stooge that seems to be quite deaf.
Uncle Sam no longer has a placid honeymoon
with financial powers, so he cannot call the tune.
The economic crisis got its start in his back yard,
now other countries treat him rather distantly and hard.
His good deeds are forgotten and his expertise reviled;
he's thought of rather like an overgrown and wayward child.
Let the Chinese cackle and the europeans crow;
if they don't start rowing they will feel the undertow.
Old Ben Franklin had it right when he said forcefully:
if we do not hang together, we shall do so separately.

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