WBZ's Carl Stevens Journal

Bailing out A.I.G.: A Poem

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Play from 0:20[0:20] ..." were bad but they don't have to how my government will simply bail them out. My savings are melting like the springtime smell but guess were all my taxes go. To pay for mistakes made by millionaires they'll keep their -- they don't care. They don't need decried it only dish out my government will simply bail them out. But where will that government be when the thermostat is set at 53. When somebody's grandmother tries not to get ill while she's dodging the next utility bill. When some sick kid doesn't go anywhere because mom and dad have gotten ill health care. Or somebody's house gets taken away because somebody couldn't pay the mortgage today. They Washington Jefferson. This is -- the government you made bails out the rich. If we have less than a million bucks and follow the red were out of luck. If you lose your car luge your home there's no bail out there on your own. We can't pay our bills. It's too bad it's tough but no bail out for us we're not big enough. -- Stevens WBZ news radio I'm thirty."...

Play from 0:00[0:00]" AG is BE IG is bigger thing -- shall oversee the feds will send them a check in the mail because they're just too big to fail. They were stupid but it doesn't matter because they just got fatter than fat. If you're asking me the whole thing's a joke these well dressed men are too rich to go broke. They're decisions were bad but they don't have to how my government will simply bail them out. My savings are melting like the springtime smell but guess were all my taxes go. To pay for mistakes made by millionaires they'll keep their -- they don't care. They don't need decried it only dish out my government will simply bail them out. But where will that government be when the thermostat is set at 53. When somebody's grandmother tries not to get ill while she's dodging the next utility bill. When some sick kid doesn't go anywhere because mom and dad have gotten ill health care. Or somebody's house gets taken away because somebody couldn't pay the mortgage today. They Washington Jefferson. This is -- the government you made bails out the rich. If we have less than a million bucks and follow the red were out of luck. If you lose your car luge your home there's no bail out there on your own. We can't pay our bills. It's too bad it's tough but no bail out for us we're not big enough. -- Stevens WBZ news radio I'm thirty."

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[0:20]..." were bad but they don't have to how my government will simply bail them out. My savings are melting like the springtime smell but guess were all my taxes go. To pay for mistakes made by millionaires they'll keep their -- they don't care. They don't need decried it only dish out my government will simply bail them out. But where will that government be when the thermostat is set at 53. When somebody's grandmother tries not to get ill while she's dodging the next utility bill. When some sick kid doesn't go anywhere because mom and dad have gotten ill health care. Or somebody's house gets taken away because somebody couldn't pay the mortgage today. They Washington Jefferson. This is -- the government you made bails out the rich. If we have less than a million bucks and follow the red were out of luck. If you lose your car luge your home there's no bail out there on your own. We can't pay our bills. It's too bad it's tough but no bail out for us we're not big enough. -- Stevens WBZ news radio I'm thirty. "...

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