the economy's all agog with wall street's helter skelter greed
since the rich took the lion's share crying crocodile tears
pundits all wax poetic describing the vicious circle of need
two parties in power won't bury the hatchet, our fears
are nothing will ever be even steven whatever stimulus wins
the billions of dollars it costs just mad money schemes
nobody who isn't insane pretends knowledge of how to begin
the multiple zeros like knick knacks displayed while the dream
of middle-class citizens just keeps unraveling, blowing away like dust
disastrous mismanagements only revealing there's nobody now we can trust.