I apologize for the swears in this song. But when Mitch Benn penned it at the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis and I heard it on the BBC, it really stuck with me.
Hoping its message doesn't become more pertinent to us as 2023 goes on.
Hoping its message doesn't become more pertinent to us as 2023 goes on.
We might be the wealthiest nation that ever existed, we might dominate the world in lots of things and because we are richer than all our neighbors or that anybody else, that dont necessarily mean that we are happier or really better off. The difference between our rich and poor grows greater every year. Our distribution of wealth is getting more uneven all the time. We are always reading "How many men paid over a million dollar income tax," but we never read about "how many there are that are not eating regular."
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