A Song That's Running Through My Mind
A Song That's Running Through My Mind
Imagining what's soon going to be happening to those less well off than America's Middle Class, especially those who live paycheck to paycheck and those worse off than even that, I'm thinking back to the "Dustbowl" days depicted in the movie The Grapes of Wrath. I can't get this song to stop running through my mind.
TIMES A-GETTIN' HARD
(learned from Pete Seeger and at Teton Tea parties in the 1960s)
- traditional folk song with new words by Lee Hays)
Times a-gettin' hard, boys, money's gettin' scarce.
If times don't get no better, boys, goin' to leave this place.
Take my true love by the hand, lead her through the town,
Say good-bye to ev'ryone, good-bye to ev'ryone,
Take my bible from the bed, shotgun from the wall,
Take old Sal and hitch her up, the wagon for to haul.
Pile the chairs and beds up high, let nothing drag the ground,
Sal can pull, and we can push, we're bound to leave this town.
Made a crop a year ago, it withered to the ground,
Tried to get more credit, but the banker turned me down.
Goin' to Californi-ay, where ev'rything is green,
Goin' to have bestest farm that you have ever seen.
(from miriam berg's folksong collection)
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When I watched on TV Warren Buffet say, without mentioning Trump, that the tariffs were the wrong thing to do, I wondered how anyone could deny his opinion?
Buffet has made money for a lot of people, but he wasn't infallible either.
He will be missed.
Buzz
One of the great financial minds of the past half century (or more)
Barring actual divine intervention , the poor will always be at the mercy of the rich.