America The Selfish and Greedy-By Susan Thomas

America, a country where all are created equal.
That's the lie,
we tell ourselves, to sleep at night.
Affordable Care Act.
A saving grace for many,
giving the right for all,
to have health insurance.
But hoards of angry citizens
scream of injustice.
The thought of paying
a mere five dollars more
is offensive.
How dare the poor
want health care!
Don't they know,
insurance is for the rich and healthy.
The hoards say:
Screw the cancer survivor,
epliptec
and diabetic.
Who cares that before this act
every insurance company told them no.
The only yes
was for a price
only the 1 percent could afford.

People now demand a livable wage.
Minimum wage,
no longer what it used to be.
The low wage forcing families,
in an unforgiveable
unbreakable cycle of poverty.
The same angry mob screams,
they earn what they deserve.
Never mind the steadily growing
number of college graduates
unable to find a job.
Forced to work a degrading job.
Never mind the single mom,
working three jobs
and still unable to make ends meet.
The angry mob screams
They won't pay the extra nickel.
These workers are lazy,
and deserve what they get.

The angry mob yells again.
To many people getting a hand out.
Take away social security
food stamps
and affordable housing.
Screw the old.
Let them sleep on the street.
How dare they ask,
for the money they earned.
Let the families starve.
Kids don't need to eat.
All should pay for that 2 percent
that abuses the system.
Let that apple
spoil the bunch.
Homeless deserve the street.
Their less than human anyway.
Who cares that one state,
is on track to eliminate homelessness.

We need our guns
the mob screams.
New restrictions rob us of that right.
Never mind the news
that keeps reporting  a new shooting
every week.
We need those assualt weapons.
Our god given right.
We don't care
that a psychopath
can buy a gun
with no problems at all.
Just because they can't see reality.
Just because they have no moral compass.
Doesn't mean they'll kill someone.

Every where I turn,
the mob is screaming and protesting.
Fighting
to keep this country unfair.
Fighting
to keep the poor man in his place.
Fighting
to keep guns in the hands of sociopaths.
Helping the 1 percent
rob the poor
and stuff their piggy banks.
We all speak the lie of equality.
Our actions tell another story.
America
the country where only the rich
healthy and privileged matter.