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Ghostwriters of the Law
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The lowdown on ALEC - the American Legislative Exchange Council. Where "sample laws" are written by corporados, handed to legislators, and shoveled down our throats.
folk political satire
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Songs to afflict those who make everyone else uncomfortable.
Dave Lippman travels the world taking the air out of the windbags of the week, de-distorting history, and rewriting the classics with parody and thrust. He also presents the world's only known singing CEO, the Bard of the Bankers, Wild Bill Bailout, who employs anti-folk songs and interventionary anthems to explain (and enforce) that the business of America is none of your business, that those too big to fail are also too big for jail, and that the jobless and foreclosed must bail out their own boats.
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Podcasts • Comedy - Political Humor
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#25 in subgenre Peak #4
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Peak #37
Author
Dave Lippman
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October 26, 2012
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MP3 5.1 MB • 160 kbps • 4:25
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Membership in ALEC has become so embarrassing that bunches of corporate persons have quit - Johnson & Johnson, AT&T, Wellpoint and State Farm Insurance, and then Wal-Mart. Anything too embarrassing for Wal-Mart is pretty bloody embarrassing. I dunno about sausage but yes you DO want to see legislation made - just not by the pirates over at ALEC.
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The American Legislative Exchange Council Is so creative when they’re through our towns’ll be Shells of their former selves It’ll be as if old Santa had downsized all his elves How so you say? Listen, I pray thee To a sad and sorry tale Prepare to shed tears in a vale Just who are these smart operators, you ask Well, I read the whole internet so I’m up to the task On the board there are just three cokes The drink people quit, leaving the brother Koch blokes Telecoms, big banks, and really big insurance Assuring the ongoing corporate crime endurance If you’re mom and pop well you just don’t rate At the intersection of business and state They’ve got a lot of energy, they’ve got Texaco Chevron, Enron, Exxon, also Amoco Yippie-eye-ay Yippie-eye-aw Ghostwriters of the law It’s a corporate bill mill, they like to meet Behind closed doors at a swank retreat The NRA wrote stand your ground More and more black youth are not around Privatizing schools and prisons and social security Selling of the wealth to the wealthy Lease it back to the public, that ain’t healthy For me, or you, but Smart ALEC knows the score, Smart ALEC knows what for Gives all the money so it’s hard to trace Finds its way to a friendly face That’s more like arsenic than old lace Before you know it they’ve taken their place In the white house, state house, every other great house They change the rules, play us for fools And legislators are their tools Yippie-eye-ay Yippie-eye-aw Ghostwriters of the law They don’t even try to influence legislation They promote love between government and corporation They’re rarely seen in the lobby But writing laws is their favorite hobby They help thwart corporate taxes by hiding their wealth And if we even try to expose how they destroy our health They would love to silence us or even arrest us Nearly as much as they love asbestos Smart-ALEC knows what to do To keep me and you in deep doo-doo Writes legislation to ruin the nation And lower the station of the 99 percent Straighten your seat backs for our final descent Yippie-eye-ay Yippie-eye-aw Ghostwriters of the law They throw a smokescreen round those who try to sting them For defending Big Tobacco, they love the plant kingdom And besides the evil weed these guys are deeply pharmaceutical With the Glaxo gang lawmakers are downright cahootical Yippie-eye-ay Yippie-eye-aw Ghostwriters of the law
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