Where have all the protest songs gone?

I aint gonna work on Georgie's farm no more.
No, I aint gonna work on Georgie's farm no more.
He throws you a nickel and he'll throw you a dime,
he calls it a tax break, it's just his pimpimg line.
It's a shame they way he treats us like his whores.
Oh, I aint gonna work for Georgie's farm no more!

Brucegel, your post has made me feel so much better: we are stuck with Ashcroft's police state, but it's all OK, coz Nader gets self respect & gets to look at himself in the mirror.

John Ashcroft, our gift from Nader

Thanks, Ralph!

Twl,You seem to be confusing a Seeger with a Aguilera and as usual the first thing anyone mentions when the topic of compassion comes up in America is socialism and big governments taking your precious money away...cmon man get out of that little box and yes Marvin Gaye was/is the man.

Twl,
You may want to recheck your numbers. The Great Society programs barely got off the ground before the majority of the funding began to be siphoned off to finance the war in Viet Nam. In any case, total funding for all of Johnson's "Great Society" programs was far less than that which was spent on the war effort.

I suspect that you, just as I am, are highly critical of the big, expensive social welfare programs common to European countries. What a lot of people do not realize is that right here in the good ole' US of A, we have a social welfare program that is bigger, and far more expensive than any in Europe. It is called prison.

The number of people incarcerated for drug offences in the US is now greater than what the total prison population of the US was just 15 years ago.

But at least we won the "War on Drugs", by golly.

I live right next to the notorious Cabrini-Green housing project, so I get to see the effects of this social policy first hand. The young men who are imprisoned often leave single mothers behind, to raise their children in poverty. By the time their boys are eleven or twelve, their young mothers can no longer control them. These adolescents get into petty crime, dealing, gangbanging, and killing each other.

Oh well, I suppose we just have to build more prisons.

good one rosstaman!