{"id":120,"date":"2011-06-24T13:29:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T13:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stashreport.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2011-12-01T17:27:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T17:27:03","slug":"120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Smoke and Mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Snake Oil Merchant<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can the garden state really be broke?
\nHey… Mr. Christie… is this a bad joke?
\nHow on earth can this possibly be?
\nTen times a day, you run a lottery.
\nYou says funds are what our state lacks…
\nBut we\u2019re burdened with a sales and an income tax.
\nAtlantic City yields big time revenues…
\nTolls and E-Z Pass have increased their dues…
\nI wonder… where does all that money go?
\nWhy do we pay and have nothing to show?
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\n Teachers are the source of all of our trouble…
\n Fiscal mansions reduced to rubble.
\n Pension plans and retirement schemes…
\n That\u2019s what\u2019s burst our money dreams.
\n Greedy unions… all they do is take…
\n It\u2019s their contracts that we gotta break…
\n We all can have a happy Thanksgiving
\n If everyone\u2019s reduced to third world living.
\n (Forget that my children live in Mendham
\n And private schools are where I send them.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor.
\nWith Christie, the middle class gets skewered.
\nGovernors have long raided retirement pensions…
\n\u201cLoans\u201d<\/em> never<\/strong> paid back… that\u2019s rarely mentioned.
\nChristie bellows, \u201cThat was then and this is now.\u201d<\/em>
\nHe says, \u201cYou can\u2019t fault me for this barren cow.\u201d
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\nWhile politicians are really the ones to blame,
\nAs scapegoats, Christie needs teachers to cane.
\nThis diversion is just deceptive hocus pocus…
\nMerely slight of hand, so we lose our focus.
\nWhile Christie didn\u2019t cause the debt… that\u2019s true,
\nIt\u2019s shameful to take from folks, what\u2019s due.
\nAn unfortunate reality and a fact that\u2019s not nice:
\nTeachers are being served as a ritual sacrifice.<\/p>\n

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