Teach everybody economics
Old young men women straight gay
Religious irreligious disabled blind etc
Leave out the comatose for now
Until we determine if they can learn
In their sleep then we’d have some
Good policies because everyone
Would understand what’s at stake
How while there’s no free lunch
Likewise nobody could confuse us
About where money comes from
Or why some have more
And others much much less
We could decide what’s the most
Efficient use nobody could claim
They didn’t understand risk
People would take arithmetic seriously
To know what they have what
They spend what they owe
Nobody could flim-flam us to say
We’ve got money for war but not schools
Or health care or birth leave we’ll
Teach people what’s bought when we
Pay for crops not grown to distinguish
Welfare for the rich from welfare for the poor
How government services earn their pay
That without taxes of some kind
Nothing governmental gets done
Because you don’t want
Self-appointed volunteers
Making crucial decisions for you
They would owe you clear explanations
Of what they did with the money
Not cover up spy services with
Open-ended question marks or
Disguise influence payments with an
Invoice for six-hundred-dollar hammers
Just like you should know what
See E Ohs get who decides
How that’s decided get a report of
What your congressman’s
Earning in salary plus perks of
Lunches vacations hookers plane trips
In company jets promises of retiree
Employment we’ve got computers
It’s possible now just enter
The facts and their votes don’t
Forget their wives and relatives
To keep them honest every night
There could be an evening news brief
To keep you up to date or an app
On your Personal Assistant Device
That would buzz to clue you in
When something goes awry like
Investing unspent campaign funds
Or sales of votes in committees
At least that might keep the reps
At an equitable price since they’d
All know how much the chair was getting
Teach everyone economics first
Then let them vote
c. J.S.Manista, 2015
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