{"id":249,"date":"2011-11-22T16:22:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T16:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2011-11-22T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T16:39:25","slug":"the-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/11\/the-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">Fat Cat top executives<br \/>\n<!--more-->Their salaries<br \/>\nhave gone up 4000%<br \/>\nin 30 years<br \/>\nGreed and pure self interest<br \/>\nHas driven it<br \/>\nBut the workers in that period<br \/>\ntheir fears<br \/>\nHave been justified<br \/>\nfor actually,that same period<br \/>\nTheir wages only rose<br \/>\n300%<br \/>\nNo wonder it is hard to<br \/>\nkeep that old wolf from the door<br \/>\nAnd why the rich and powerful<br \/>\nare contentThe Bankers really have carved out<br \/>\ntheir monumental rise<br \/>\nBanksters is a<br \/>\nbrilliant term<br \/>\nFor it heralds our demise<br \/>\nPiss takers and the Govenment<br \/>\nunderestimates<br \/>\nHow angry it has made us feel<br \/>\nand how it abrogates<br \/>\nAny feeling we had had for them<br \/>\nRespect its disappeared<br \/>\nDiscordance in abundance<br \/>\nWhich might be seen as weird<br \/>\nBut of course our living standards<br \/>\nHave been coming under fire<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve had to bail the bastards out<br \/>\nAnd now some just retire<br \/>\nOn astronomic pay out&#8217;s and bonuses<br \/>\nso great<br \/>\nThese Cognac swigging pocket filling<br \/>\narse oles we don&#8217;t rate<br \/>\nInflation, extra taxes<br \/>\nour pensions, knocked sideways<br \/>\nScraping by on cherry pie<br \/>\nNo wonder Britain&#8217;s going down the tubes<br \/>\nWe know now why<br \/>\nAusterity is for the working classes<br \/>\nWhilst the 1% are raking in the dough<br \/>\nChauffeur driven limousines and bullion in their safes<br \/>\nUp to our eyes in debit as well you know<br \/>\nTheir arrogance apparently is massive<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re their serfs they bark at us and we<br \/>\nMust run around like blue arsed flies<br \/>\nWinking at them with both eyes<br \/>\nAnd working till we drop down on our knee<br \/>\nOnce upon a time Britian was known as great<br \/>\nNow \u00a0Obama shouts and we are there<br \/>\nWe went into Libya and bombed it back to the stone age<br \/>\nAnd of course that action it was seen as fair<br \/>\nthousands on the bread line,roads like the 3rd world<br \/>\nPeople living in the streets, our cluster bombs were hurled<br \/>\nInto streets in Libya and Afghanistan oh! we<br \/>\ncan kill innocent civilians thats done so easily<br \/>\nEach shell, each missile costs the earth<br \/>\nbut thats okay, no sweat<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re up to our eyes in overdrafts the bankers yea their set<br \/>\nTo cream off all the profits and us well we can go<br \/>\nAnd get ourselves a flu jab or fall over in the snow<br \/>\nCos the pavements won&#8217;t get salted, no money in the pot<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s enough to pay the Bankers Oh yea that much they&#8217;ve got<br \/>\nEnough to tear down buildings miles and miles away<br \/>\nBut back here extra money for the servants<br \/>\nthey won&#8217;t pay<br \/>\nA New World Order occupies their thoughts<br \/>\nso what we \u00a0do<br \/>\nIs occupy their minds and let them know their clueless too.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The frustration and the anger building up in people watching these rich leaders helping themselves to the wealth of millions of hard worked people who have strived to make Britain great for 50 years with sweat and blood and now we see wars started in our names and people killed in our names whilst we watch our Bankers steal what little we have accrued.The 1% had better watch out its not all plain sailing   <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/11\/the-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-poems","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}