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VIDEO: No summer break for bad credit
Coconut tree. Don't sit under it.
While the average Joe is hurtin',
3M, Xerox, Halliburton,
Coca-Cola, Caterpillar --
all their bottom lines were killer.
American Express, UPS,
and their success is great, I guess.
But over at the central bankee,
Ben Bernanke
sounded cranky.
Sales are drowsy.
Credit's lousy.
Housing pain
is up again.
So clearly there's this wide divide.
Will these global firms provide
the jobs to stop the slide
and turn the tide?
I just, I can't decide.
Democrats
faced the facts
about the so-called carbon tax.
There's no Republican that backs it.
Since it lacks the votes,
they axed it.
And a study of summer vacation
shows it's not a relaxation.
Either we spend it working a lot
or we fret about unanswered e-mails we've got.
If you're sitting under a coconut tree,
I hate to say this --
Do not go to marketplace.org.
Marketplace is a pretty good show except for these juvenile and ego-masturbatory poems. I can't imagine anyone other than the show host finding this silliness a meaningful part of their day. The underlying message is that it is all a big joke, which it may be, but that's a story on the cosmic level. Maybe when the economy collapses and Bill Radke is out of work he won't think our economic woes are so funny. He could still write silly poems. Subway stations are good places to recite them. He could learn a lot from other performers there.
