Don't Say the "M" Word!
Trump Wants to Give 62 Cents of Every Dollar to the Military. That’s Immoral!
Whoever enters here honors me; whoever doesn’t- pleases me.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Live Yet Pre-recorded- Episode Eleven of:
Don’t Say the “M” Word!
A Silent Radio Hour!
“I understand people believe I'm just a statistic
I say to them I'm different”
10th grader, Antwon Rose
“De l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace!” [“Audacity, audacity, always audacity!”]
-Georges Danton
“The power of the powerless!”
-Vaclav Havel
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TheBecka: Welcome back cherished listeners! We’re terribly energized today! Hell! We’re actually animated if not wound up by the prospect of you “our” cherished listeners dropping in on “us” today!
J: Keep the sucking-up to a minimum Beck! To a minimum!
D&WAR: Becka! Becka! Becka! Show ‘em all some respective! But hey Beck! Show some perspective!
TheBecka! Whatever guys! Whatever! Right! Let’s get this sound machine going!
J: Silent radio TheBecka! Silent radio!
TheBecka: A little sarcasm first thing in the morning Jonathan! First thing in the morning!
J: How about a little bit of sound first thing “this” morning? Let’s get it going!
J&D&TheBecka&WAR: O eh, o eh, o eh, oo aah O eh, o eh, o eh, oo aah yah yey goh At night when you turn off all the lights There’s no place that you can hide Oh no, the rhythm is gonna get’cha In bed, throw the covers on your head You pretend like you are dead But I know it The rhythm is gonna get’cha Rhythm is gonna get ‘cha Rhythm is gonna get ‘cha Rhythm is gonna get you The rhythm is gonna get you tonight No way, you can fight it every day But no matter what you say You know it The rhythm is gonna get’cha No clue, of what’s happening to you And before this night is through Ooh baby The rhythm is gonna get’cha O eh, o eh, o eh, oo aah O eh, o eh, o eh, oo aah Yah yeh goh Rhythm is gonna get ‘cha Rhythm is gonna get ‘cha Rhythm is gonna get you The rhythm is gonna get you tonight Na na na na na na na na na na na Na na na na na na na na na na O eh, o eh, o eh, oo aah O eh, o eh, o eh, oo aah Yah yeh goh Na na na na na na na na na na na Na na na na na na na na na na!
D: Love that Miami Sound Machine!
TheBecka: As you should Drew! As you should! And with that! Let’s get “our” silent “sound” machine going! Warren! Front and center please!
Poorest Expected to Lose Food Stamps First Under New Rules!
WAR: Just in! The public comment period for the Trump administration’s proposal ended Tuesday! Researchers say “hunger will likely increase” if it takes effect.
D: Even the children Warren?
WAR: Especially the children Drew!
J: Teach those lazy peasants a lesson! Starve “their” children as motivation for getting out there and finding a job!
TheSASMO: Except Jonathan! Most of those people needing food stamps are working people who don’t earn enough because wages have been flat since the 70s!
D: Didn’t we do a story about TheAmazon and its employees needing food stamps because of low wages TheSASMO?
TheSASMO: We sure did Drew! We sure did!
WAR: Conservatives have long sought to make it harder for people to receive food stamps. Yes Drew! Even the children! They almost achieved that goal last year! But get this one! A proposal for stricter work requirements was ultimately removed from the final farm bill that passed in December.
J: A close call there!
WAR: Now! In light of that legislative loss for conservatives! The Trump administration’s revamping the food stamps program! Otherwise known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP! It’s going to reflect conservative values and ideas!
D: Starving children’s now a national value?
TheSASMO: In the demented mind of Donald “the” Chump? Yes Drew! It’s now “our” value system here in the United States of Get Those Grubby Little Hands Outta My Face You Teeny Tiny Little Dirty Street Urchins or USGTGLHOMFYTTLDSU!
TheBecka: Thank TheDonald children!
J&D&WAR&TheSASMO: Thank you Donald Trump!
J: Bad Donald! Bad dog! Bad dog!
WAR: The U.S. Department of Agriculture or USDA issued a rule in December! If enacted? It’ll cause 755,000 people to lose food stamp benefits! The proposed rules are currently undergoing a 60-day comment period which ends on Tuesday! The federal government will then weigh public comments before submitting a final rule.
D: What will happen Warren?
WAR: According to data released this month from the nonpartisan Mathematica Policy Research! The vast majority of those expected to lose their benefits currently live below the poverty line! 88% make $500 a month or less! Researchers also found that 164,000 of them are between the ages of 18 and 21! Furthermore!
J: Yes Warren?
WAR: ‘SNAP serves the poor, but the people likely impacted by this rule are disproportionately poor,’ says Giridhar Mallya senior policy officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation which worked on the report with Mathematica. ‘It’s shown to reduce hunger, so hunger will likely increase.’
D: But the children!
TheSASMO: Remember “our” brand “new” improved American values Drew! No more hand outs! We can’t afford it anymore!
J: But we can afford tax cuts for the rich! For corporations!
TheSASMO: And if we taxed those people? Who’d create all those good jobs?
J: Like your thinking there TheSASMO! Like your thinking!
WAR: Indeed! Now listen! SNAP’s current rules require non-disabled childless adults to work or participate in job training for at least 20 hours a week! That is! If they receive food assistance for more than three months in a three-year period. States can request exemptions from this rule if they are struggling with high unemployment and many have! The USDA’s new policy will make it harder for states to qualify for these exemptions!
J: Sounds fair to me!
TheSASMO: Like your thinking there Jonathan! Like your thinking!
WAR: Alaska! Louisiana! Nevada and New Mexico! These states currently exempt their childless population from work requirements! But! 29 states have a partial waiver! And 17 have no waiver at all! At least! According to Mathematica!
The New Rules
WAR: Under the current rules! States can receive waivers if they prove part of their state has an unemployment rate of 20% above the national average! States will often clump together certain areas that are struggling and have an unemployment rate! Once combined! 20% above the national average!
J: They do this because? Warren?
WAR: Taking an exemption was especially popular in the years following the Great Recession! In fact! Delaware’s the only state that hasn’t sought a waiver of this kind since 2010! Why? People were hurting and needing help!
D: Especially the children!
WAR: Yes Drew! Especially the children! But! The USDA’s new rules will restrict cities and counties from banding together for this purpose!
D: WHY?
TheSASMO: Because these republicans simply don’t care!
J: Greedy bastards all of ‘em!
WAR: Congressional Republicans want to reign in the $4 billion-a-month program which they say is prone to government waste!
TheSASMO: Besides! These Republicans truly! Sincerely! Believe that people have lost self-reliance! And if they keep receiving “hand-outs” they’re stay poor and hungry! And yes Drew! Even the children!
J: Those Get Those Grubby Little Hands Outta My Face You Teeny Tiny Little Dirty Street Urchins or GTGLHOMFYTTLDSU!
D: Feeding hungry children’s a waste?
TheSASMO: In the minds of these heartless Congressional Republicans? Yes Drew! Feeding hungry children’s a waste of governmental recourses!
J: But huge tax cuts for the rich and corporations aren’t a waste?
WAR: May TheBezos bless these Congressional Republicans!
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TheSASMO: I know I praise TheBezos all the time!
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WAR: Around 40 million Americans receive food assistance! Yes Drew! That’s a whole lotta people! Especially children! Clearly! The USDA expects the new rule to save $15 billion over a decade. And to these bureaucrats! These technocrats! Their spreadsheets are more important than yes! Even little children who these Congressional Republicans tell point-break: ‘Get Those Grubby Little Hands Outta My Face You Teeny Tiny Little Dirty Street Urchins or USGTGLHOMFYTTLDSU!’
J: And what do the Democrats have to say Warren?
WAR: Democrats? They say that these type of exemptions are necessary because counties within states have different employment prospects!
J: More info if you might Warren?
WAR: In New Mexico! Officials are debating the best way to prevent coverage losses in the event that it loses its statewide waiver! They are considering two paths! (1) Updating and expanding their employment and training programs, which would cost the state $6 million! (2) Partnering with community organizations that might be able to take on additional caseloads to help people secure jobs and/or job training!
D: Is it working Warren?
WAR: Kind of I believe? Either way! There’s “huge concern,” says Angela Medrano deputy director of the state’s human services department! “We provide services to 900,000 people, almost half of the state.”
J: Half the freakin’ state Warren?
WAR: Unfortunately Jonathan! New Mexico has the third-highest poverty rate in the nation! Whereas! Large swaths of rural area are making it difficult for many residents to comply with a work requirement!
TheSASMO: I guess they should drive hundreds of miles for a job?
J: Right! Spend all that “big” money on food for the children “or” gas for the car! Quite the choice!
WAR: Karmela Martinez, the acting director of the Income Support Division of the New Mexico Department of Human Services had this to say: ‘I worked on the county level, where people would hitchhike to their government appointments. There’s inadequate infrastructure. People lack access to phones and internet!’
J: Been there!
D: Done that!
J&D: Thank you Babe!
Changes to the Carryover Exemption
WAR: The USDA’s new proposal also modifies the carryover exemption! Right now! A state can exempt up to 15% of childless adults from the three-months-in-three-years time limit! If they don’t use up that 15%? They can roll over the remainder to the next year.
J&TheSASMO: May TheBezos bless these bureaucrats!
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TheSASMO: I know I praise TheBezos all the time!
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WAR: Agreed! Now! Based on that equation! States had a combined 7.4 million exemptions available during 2018 according to the USDA!
J&TheSASMO: May TheBezos bless these bureaucrats!
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TheSASMO: I know I praise TheBezos all the time!
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WAR: We all do! Everyday! Anyway! The proposed rule would subject states to a new calculation based on how many exemptions they used in the previous year before allotting them exemptions for the next year, making it harder to roll over.
TheSASMO: Human services advocates say it’s an unnecessary and harmful change.
WAR: Exactly! Ann Flagg, director of the Center for Child and Family Well-Being at the American Public Human Services Association states: ‘States feel very strongly to have that flexibility to respond to local needs. Also there is not evidence that states are misusing this power!’
Is There Enough Job Training?
WAR: At the heart of this debate! The goal’s “good” employment! And it’s harder to achieve in some places than others! This’ just a simple fact! How much the government spends on job training’s an enormous factor!
J: Explain Warren?
WAR: According to The Council of State Governments or TCSG! The federal government allocates around $10 billion to states for job training! Technical education and rehabilitative programs but some of that goes to larger programs that spend the money on other things!
J: Like?
WAR: State spending varies Jonathan! New Mexico spent around $12 million in 2017! But Washington state spent $59 million! That’s nearly five times as much!
D: Why the differences Warren?
WAR: Some states just don’t put in the effort as where other states do! ‘The success of a work requirement is contingent on the strength of these training programs,’ says Flagg. ‘It’s creating a work requirement that lacks adequate funding to create meaningful pathways to work.’
TheSASMO: If there isn’t the will to put people back to work with meaningful, well paying jobs! This action by the Trump White House and the Republican party! Is merely punitive! It’s as simple as that! They want to punish those who are poor!
WAR: But those people are still citizens deserving of support by “We The People” of WTP!
J: Been there!
D: Done that!
TheBecka: Thank you Warren! And now? TheSASMO and his report!
Trump Wants to Give 62 Cents of Every Dollar to the Military. That’s Immoral!
A budget shows our values more clearly than any tweet, campaign speech, or political slogan!
TheSASMO: Donald Trump recently unleashed his dark vision for our nation and our world! It arrived in the form of his budget request to Congress! It’s a budget which demonstrates our values more clearly than any tweet! Any campaign speech! Or stupid…
J: Ass Scratchingly Stupid or ASS TheSASMO!
TheSASMO: Any Donald Trump/Republican ASS political slogan! It’s what weds detailed! Dollar-and-cents policy decisions! Joined to deeper political and moral priorities!
J&WAR: What TheSASMO?
TheSASMO: These priorities are but not limited to! Our endless wars and use of the vast wealth of this nation to end poverty! To lead us towards true security for all! It should invest in healthcare! Well-paying jobs! Affordable higher education! Safe drinking water! And clean air for all of us!
J: I understand that the rich want all the clean air!
WAR: But they are willing to give us the polluted air so we have at least something to breathe!
J: Oh bless their hearts!
TheSASMO: All praise to TheBezos!
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TheSASMO: And than some! Look! Listen! And learn! The proposed Trump budget drops bombs on this vision! Almost literally! With this budget! TheDonald takes more than $1 trillion in taxpayer money and disperses fully $750 billion to the military! Out of every taxpayer dollar! In other words! 62 cents go to the military and our militarized Department of Homeland Security! With Veterans’ benefits taking another seven cents!
J&WAR: What TheSASMO?
TheSASMO: That leaves just 31 cents for all the rest! Education! Job training! Community economic development! Housing! Safe drinking water! Clean air! Health and science research! And the prevention of war through diplomacy and humanitarian aid!
J&WAR: Seems fair to us!
TheSASMO: And with all sarcasm aside! The budget also cuts billions from non-discretionary anti-poverty programs outside of this $1 trillion! Medicaid and food stamps would be cut and disfigured beyond recognition!
J&WAR: Seems fair to us!
TheSASMO: Again! With all sarcasm aside! At every turn! The Trump budget finds vast billions for militarization while cutting much smaller poverty and other programs! And his claim or justification? The goal’s to save money!
D: But can’t he just cut the military budget some TheSASMO?
TheSASMO: Doesn’t want to! Isn’t planning any such thing! Look! It includes $164 billion in war funding! But listen! It cuts $4.7 billion in economic development and food assistance to other nations!
J&WAR: Seems fair to us!
TheSASMO: And again! With all sarcasm aside! It finds $14 billion for a vanity project military branch called the space force!
J: Is TheBezos in on this one?
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TheSASMO: Now while it cuts $1.2 billion for a program that’s built and preserved more than 1million affordable homes! It includes $11 billion for contractor Lockheed Martin to build more F-35 jet fighters! And yes! It cuts $3.7 billion in heating and cooling assistance for 6 million poor households!
J: It’s their own fault!
D: Who’s fault’s that Jonathan?
J: Poor working people Drew!
D: What TheSASMO?
J: The poor and unfortunate of this world just want a-hand-out! They need to pull themselves up by the boat-straps!
TheSASMO: And again! With all sarcasm aside! It includes more than $12 billion for a wall at our border! One we really don’t need!
J: Have you seen the “ladder” video TheSASMO?
TheSASMO: Yeah! The wife showed it to me! Funny as hell!
WAR: I haven’t seen it yet! What’s it about?
J: The president of Mexico mocks Trump! Basically! He show how a Mexican merely has to take a ladder to the wall and climb right over into the Good Ole USofA!
J&D&TheBecka&WAR&TheSASMO: USA! USA! USA! Glad to be back in the Good Ole USofA! Johnny please!
J: Celebrating the late great Chuck Berry! High Volume or HV please!
J&D&TheBecka&WAR&TheSASMO: Oh well, oh well, I feel so good today We touched ground on an international runway Jet propelled back home, from over the seas to the U.S.A. New York, Los Angeles, oh, how I yearned for you Detroit, Chicago, Chattanooga, Baton Rouge Let alone just to be at my home back in ol’ St. Lou Did I miss the skyscrapers, did I miss the long freeway? From the coast of California to the shores of Delaware Bay You can bet your life I did, till I got back to the U.S.A. Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner café Where hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day Yeah, and a jukebox jumping with records like in the U.S.A.Well, I’m so glad I’m livin’ in the U.S.A. Yes, I’m so glad I’m livin’ in the U.S.A!
D: Could that café in the song be The Spank the Monkey Café here in the heart of downtown Seattle, Washington kitty corner to HQ1 of The Mighty Amazon?
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J: Most likely not Drew! Most likely not!
D: Why TheSASMO?
TheSASMO: The Spank the Monkey Café is 100% vegan Drew! No ‘hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day’ here!
W: But how about some Good Ole Fashioned Chinese Green Tea or GOFCGT sold by Mother Eu-funh or Playful Phoenix, a Mom and Pop Corner Tea Store in Hong Kong, China or MEPPMPCTSHKC and popcorn?
J&D&TheBecka&WAR: Yes please!
W: I’ll be right back with your Good Ole Fashioned Chinese Green Tea or GOFCGT sold by Mother Eu-funh or Playful Phoenix, a Mom and Pop Corner Tea Store in Hong Kong, China or MEPPMPCTSHKC and popcorn!
J&D&TheBecka&WAR: Thank you!
W: Never a problem my darlings!
TheBecka: Great day to be alive while enjoying Good Ole Fashioned Chinese Green Tea or GOFCGT sold by Mother Eu-funh or Playful Phoenix, a Mom and Pop Corner Tea Store in Hong Kong, China or MEPPMPCTSHKC and popcorn!
J&D&WAR: Good Ole Fashioned Chinese Green Tea or GOFCGT sold by Mother Eu-funh or Playful Phoenix, a Mom and Pop Corner Tea Store in Hong Kong, China or MEPPMPCTSHKC and popcorn! Good Ole Fashioned Chinese Green Tea or GOFCGT sold by Mother Eu-funh or Playful Phoenix, a Mom and Pop Corner Tea Store in Hong Kong, China or MEPPMPCTSHKC and popcorn! Give us more Good Ole Fashioned Chinese Green Tea or GOFCGT sold by Mother Eu-funh or Playful Phoenix, a Mom and Pop Corner Tea Store in Hong Kong, China or MEPPMPCTSHKC and popcorn!
W: My darlings! Be right back with your Good Ole Fashioned Chinese Green Tea or GOFCGT sold by Mother Eu-funh or Playful Phoenix, a Mom and Pop Corner Tea Store in Hong Kong, China or MEPPMPCTSHKC and popcorn!
J&D&TheBecka&WAR: Thank you!
W: Never a problem my darlings!
TheBecka: See! Things are bad! Horrible actually! But so long as we have “some” of the simple pleasures in life? We’ll endure!
J: I won’t!
D: Jonathan? Let Becka have her moment!
TheBecka: Thank you Drew!
W: He’s a good boy!
J: A good little suck-up boy you mean!
W: Jonathan! Apologize to your brother!
J: Sorry Drew!
D: Thank you Jonathan!
TheBecka: And let’s thank TheSASMO who will finally finish up today’s Episode or E!
TheSASMO: Now while it cuts $1 billion for Job Corps! Which’s the program that provides yearly training and work experience to 50,000 working poor and mostly black youths! The budget falsely claims to adhere to strict spending limits set by Congress for the military!
J: TheDonald wouldn’t lie to us TheSASMO? Would he?
TheSASMO: Again! With all sarcasm aside! It hides an extra $174 billion for the Pentagon in plain sight by adding it to a war spending account! And that’s despite the fact that the president has said he wants to bring back thousands of troops from Syria and Afghanistan!
J&WAR: What TheDonald?
TheSASMO: This gimmick brings total military spending all the way up to $750 billion! And this even while the administration claims to be cutting the base Pentagon budget!
J: Lair! Lair! TheDonald’s pants are on fire!
WAR: Doubt TheDonald cares in the lease!
J: He’d care if it Fried His Dinky Twinkie or FHDT!
WAR: Don’t stop TheDonald!
TheSASMO: I’ve got a headache Melania! Not tonight! Anyway! Most likely it would! Now! Saving money’s apparently the only goal when it’s spending on the working poor! On justice and equity! Saving the Earth! Saving money! Cutting the deficit! In other words! It’s all just a “HUGE” smokescreen!
J: Not “HUGE”! Dinky Twinkie!
TheSASMO: And looky here kinder! Unjust budgets and misplaced priorities? They’re not just a Trump problem! The United States has been addicted to excessive military spending at the expense of true security at home for decades!
J&WAR: What the Good Ole USofA?
TheSASMO: In our religious and moral traditions? We’ve learned the truth about how we treat the immigrant and the neighbor! How we treat God! In our view! This budget and it’s values show not only a deep disregard for human life! But a resounding contempt if not total disdain for the very notion of the divine! Something most call- “God!”
J&WAR: What the Good Ole USofA?
TheSASMO: The Good Ole USofA? Right! For too long now! We’ve had budgets that provide security for a wealthy and powerful few rather than the working poor and disenfranchised many! Real security means establishing peace! Justice for all! We The People or WTP! While promoting the material wellbeing up to and including future generations! HEY PEPOLE! Let’s bring our country back to these values! Principles and standards enshrined in the constitution! Our very moral traditions! Let’s NOW revive the heart and soul of our nation!
TheBecka: And with these words of wisdom! Let’s take a moment of silence…
J: Silent radio TheBecka! Silent radio!
W: Jonathan!
J: Sorry!
TheBecka: Take a moment of silence and reflect on who and what we are! Where we came from! And to where we’re headed!
J: Hopefully NOT off a cliff!
TheBecka: Agreed! And that’s Good Night Irene!
J&D: Bye now!
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To our cherished listeners out there hopefully believing that “our” ‘A Live Silent Radio Hour’ which’s live yet pre-recorded at The Spank the Monkey Café in the heart of downtown Seattle, Washington of the United States of Here’s Still Hoping for the Fifth Aeon to Finally Come and Save Us All Here or USHSHFAFCSUAH in: America which’s quickly Slipping Into Darkness or SID! Hopefully, we’ll be back next time! Who knows? Now listen! I’m Becka formerly known as Reject # 2 now known as TheBecka! I’m here in what’s known as The Spank the Monkey Café where we’re now broadcasting live yet pre-recorded and so many thanks once again to “our” cherished listeners who are anticipating another Episode or E of ‘A Live Silent Radio Hour’! We’re so sorry that you have to live through these nasty “happenings” taking place daily here in America! I mean to say! Really SORRY! But I wish to thank all of you for tuning in once more while again leaving Any Semblance of Rational Thought or ASRT at the door as for the sake of TheDonald: How in the hell can you listen to silent radio? Never understood that one but hey folks! We’re back! (Inspirational Pause!) And please cherished “LISTENERS” return once again next time to hopefully Find-Out-the-Facts or FOFs concerning the nature and cause of our Collective Delusion or CD as we Tell Our Tale or TOT of Misery or M here in a land formerly known as America! Please stay safe and always watch out for those Frenzied, Extremely Agitated Regrettables or FEAR “Neo-Liberals” who see their own reflection in the Mirrored Sunglasses or MSs of those who would Un-Naturally or UN ridicule our Blessed Way of Life here on Silent Radio or SR! And please! Make sure to thank TheDonald! And so I’m pretty certain! And Good Night Irene!
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D: Jonathan?
J: Yes Drew?
D: Do you think the Good Ole USofA will fall off a cliff?
J: In truth Drew?
D: Yes! In truth Jonathan!
J: I don’t believe we’ll be able to help ourselves!
D: So we’re doomed than?
J: YES! Doom-city’s our fate!
D: I’ll miss “our” Chuck Berry albums Jonathan!
J: As will I Drew! As will I!
The Post Meeting Social or PMS:
TheBecka: We’re not doomed yet Jonathan! Where there’s hope! There’s life!
J: Even in TheAmazon? Becka?
TheBecka: Especially in TheAmazon Jonathan!
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J: And we’re takin’ it to the streets! Let TheAmazon and all those other worthless corporations know who you are! And what you stand for! Everybody!
J&D&TheBecka&WAR&Any One Who Cares About “OUR” Democracy! Cares about finding out who were are? Where we come from? Where we’re headed? What we desire to be or not to be which’s quite the question: ‘You don’t know me but I’m your brother I was raised here in this living hell You don’t know my kind in your world Fairly soon the time will tell You, telling me the things you’re gonna do for me I ain’t blind and I don’t like what I think I see Takin’ it to the streets, takin’ it to the streets Takin’ it to the streets, takin’ it to the streets Take this message to my brother You will find him everywhere Wherever people live together Tied in poverty’s despair Oh, you, telling me the things you’re gonna do for me I ain’t blind and I don’t like what I think I see Takin’ it to the streets, takin’ it to the streets Takin’ it to the streets, takin’ it to the Oh, you, telling me the things you’re gonna do for me, yeah I ain’t blind and I don’t like what I think I see Takin’ it to the streets takin’ it to the streets Takin’ it to the streets, takin’ it to the streets Takin’ it to the streets, takin’ it to the streets Takin’ it to the streets, takin’ it to the streets Takin’ it to the streets, takin’ it to the streets Takin’ it to the streets, takin’ it to the streets Takin’ it to the streets, takin’ it to the streets Takin’ it to the streets, takin’ it to the streets Takin’ it to the streets, takin’ it to the streets!’
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