[PEN-L:6287] Call It Democracy (was IMF: 'Loans' and Conditions)

["Michael Hoover" <hoov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Now the IMF doesn't even make a gesture of 'making a loan'; it merely
> imposes conditions. For instance:
> Yoshie

Call It Democracy/Bruce Cockburn

padded with power here they come
interntional loan sharks backed by the guns
of market hungry military profiteers
whose word is a swamp and whose is brow is
 smeared
with the blood of the poor

who rob life of its quality
who render rage a necessity
by turning countries into labour camps
modern slavers in drag as champions of
 freedom

sinister cynical instrument
who makes the guns into a sacrament -
the only reponse to the deification
of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
idolatry of ideology

north south east west
kill the best and buy the rest
it's just spend a buck to make a buck
you don't really give a flying fuck
about the people in misery

IMF dirty MF
take away everything it can get
always making certain that there's one thing
 left
keep them on the hook with insupportable
 debt

see the paid-off local bottom feeders
passing themselves off as leaders
kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellas
and its open for business like a cheap
 bordello

and they call it democracy
and they call it democracy
and they call it democracy
and they call it democracy

see the loaded eyes of the children too
trying to make the best of it the way kids do
one day you're going to rise from your
 habitual feast
to find yourself staring down the throat of
 the best
they call the revolution

IMF dirty MF
takes away everything it can get
always making certain that there's one thing
 left
keep them on the hoo with insupportable
 debt

and they call it democracy
and they call it democracy
and they call it democracy
and they call it democracy
_____
Michael Hoover