Inside Job
Akira the Don, Paul Harvey
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See ours is not the first by George good Government to arise on the world stage There have been several Rome, Spain, and Greece, and China And each enjoyed about a hundred and Fifty years at it's zenith And that’s just about our time In the new world and then each decayed away Not one of them was ever destroyed By anybody else’s marching legions Each rotted away morally Socially, culturally Economically simultaneously You know one of the most cruel Paradoxes’ of history is this Because each was a good government It bore bountiful fruit and When it bore bountiful fruit The people got fat And when they got fat they got lazy When they got lazy they began to want to Absolve themselves of personal responsibility And turn over To government to do for them things which Traditionally they had been Doing for themselves At first there appears to Be nothing wrong asking Government to perform some extra Service for you but if you ask government For extra services government, in order To perform it's increasing function Has to get bigger, right? And as government gets bigger, in order to Support it's increasing size it has to What? Tax the individual more So the individual gets littler And to collect the increased taxes requires More tax collectors so the government Gets bigger and in order to Pay the additional tax collectors, it has To tax the individual more so the Government gets bigger and the individual Get littler and the government gets bigger And the individual gets littler Until the government is all powerful and the Individual is hardly anything at all Good government it bore bountiful Fruit and when it Bore bountiful fruit the people got fat And when they got fat they got lazy When they got lazy they began to want to Absolve themselves of personal responsibility And turn over To government to do for them things which Traditionally they had been Doing for themselves Some believe that the need is for a vigorous Strong man to rise on the scene To regulate and regiment the affairs of men (REGULATORS) yet, history tells us there Have been several such Once upon a time there was a Nation great and powerful and good Few were suffering from the aftermath of war From a depression And then came upon the scene a Leader, an idealist, self confident Intolerant to criticism A wise lady limited his early Activities to combating the financial Depression, nobody could argue with that But in a while he began To regulate business and Establish new rules to govern Commerce and finance Some of them in diametrical Disagreement with the God-Made laws of supply and demand But anybody who disagreed with those New rules was promptly fired The new leader saw that under the old System of free enterprise Landlords prospered So he levied new taxes to Take away their profit's And destroy what he called Then "Monopoly of Capital" To please laborers, he controlled prices To win the favor of the farmers, he Gave them loans and subsidies The National Debt mounted, alarmingly Whenever anybody tried to tell him "that governments, even as people Can go broke, when they Spend beyond their incomes" He said "They just didn’t Understand deficit finance" Well, what do you say? Did he build on Rock or on sand? I say on sand For you see this was the story Of Emperor Tsu Tong Phao who Led China to it's doom more Than a Thousand Years Ago Because each was a good government It bore bountiful fruit and When it bore bountiful fruit The people got fat And when they got fat they got lazy And when they got lazy they began to want To absolve themselves of personal Responsibility and turn Over to government to do For them things which Traditionally they had been Doing for themselves Because each was a good government It bore bountiful fruit and When it bore bountiful fruit The people got fat And when they got fat they got lazy And when they got lazy they began to want To absolve themselves of personal Responsibility and turn Over to government to do For them things which Traditionally they had been Doing for themselves I am satisfied with all my heart that if Uncle Sam ever does get whipped, here too It will have been an Inside Job It was internal decay It was not external attack that Destroyed the Roman Empire Starting about 146 BC internal conditions in Rome were characterized by a Welter of class wars and conflicts Street brawls, corrupt governors Lack of personal integrity And moral responsibility Street brawls, corrupt governors Lack of personal integrity And moral responsibility Street brawls, corrupt governors Lack of personal integrity And moral responsibility Street brawls, corrupt governors Lack of personal integrity And moral responsibility Street brawls, corrupt governors Lack of personal integrity And moral responsibility Street brawls, corrupt governors Lack of personal integrity And moral responsibility
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