Is that the government's interests are not
Necessarily the same as ours in fact
Are rarely the same as ours because if you
Think the government's interests are
Then you think - "Well if something
Is going wrong it must be
That they made a mistake 'cause
They really care about us"
They don't care about us!
The greatest beneficiary of Reagan
Wealthy businessmen and ministers
Bush promised that he would
Signed the Clean Air Act and
Two years after that, we see it as imprudence
The EPA allowed tons of hazardous pollutants
Little money was allocated
Contaminated drinkin' water
But business worries override the
Ecological breakdowns and nobody
Would publish when Reagan got elected and he
He spent a quarter million dollars
He built the military even more
And paid for it with cuts
And benefit's for the poor
He made 140 billion cuts in social programs
Human consequences wasn't justified
He said that he still balanced the budget
Wassily Leontief guaranteed that he wouldn't
The 80's were the triumph
The poor he would bury ya
The gap between the rich and
The poor grew dramatically
Black families were hit the hardest
Lack of resources, and racial discrimination
Broken homes, drug addiction, incarceration
Instead of trying to help the
People out of this position
Politicians called for the building
Reagan lied about Iran, lied to Nicaragua
Lied about the Soviets and
Lied about the Contras he sold arms to Iran
All of it was cited but plausible denial
Is why he ain't get indicted
The jury found him guilty but he ain't
Do no time because the motherfucker's filthy
Reagan sent Marines into a crazy situation
Two hundred died in Lebanon
After that he sent forces into Grenada
Congress was notified but not consulted
What good's a show of force
That's the way that Reagan's mind
Why do people die in countries
We invading? So we can make it clear that
Reagan's raid on Libya, that was terrorist
Bombs fell on a crowded city
The Cold War? Let me relay you the facts
The foreign policy just delayed the collapse
The US policy motivated by Fed
To justify the suppression
The military budget was 280 billion
Colin Powell said he wanna
Scare the world's civilians
In order to boost his popularity with voters
Bush went to war with Iraq
He abandoned sanctions and said
He only chose war because
The presidential elections
Who believed that we would liberate Kuwait?
When we invaded other countries
Every single week you think that they could
Build a nuclear bomb? They was 10 years away
From having nuclear bombs
Less than half of us favored military action
No blood for oil was the citizen's reaction
Officials lied about small bombs
American reporters were kept from
Clinton got in and appointed people of color
But he abandoned them when
They started working together
He spoke of a new government
For a new century invoked Dr king's name
Compared their philosophy
Recalled Dr king's dream of racial equality
But put more blacks in prison
Continued the military budget in
It doesn't matter the party, homie
Approved the FBI attack on Koresh
Fire swept through the whole
His crime bill got a lot of
Attention but it emphasized punishment
Persuaded voters he was tough on crime
But tougher is dumber when you
Clinton removed welfare benefit's
From immigrants legal or illegal
Most of y'all don't know the difference
Agreement really preserve?
Why the number of prisoners
Doubled when Clinton served?
Domination of the media was
If god intended us to vote
He would've gave us candidates
Bush verse Gore, that was your decision
Both support the death penalty
Nader ran too but the media denyin' it
Half the country didn't even vote
Appealin' to class warfare that
Gore received hundreds of thousands
Proof the electoral process is a joke
Bush took office and pushed tax
Opposed environmental regulations for
The money nine months into his presidency, 9
11 immediately declared a war on terrorism
He said that they were Saudi
Then he ordered the bombing of Afghanistan
How the fuck that make sense
Wartime presidents do wartime shit
That's why wartime presidents can
Suck my dick there were minority voices that
You can't match violence or violence
We stationed troops in Saudi on
Military aid for occupying Palestine
Killing innocents Arabs would come
And stupid motherfuckers sit and wonder
You have a lot of friends who are depressed
A lot of friends who go around very gloomy
Think the world is coming to an end
You can understand people feeling depressed
You can understand people feeling desperate
Because the truth is, we're faced with evil
There's an enormous number of
About the world and about the country
Wanna do something about it
And those numbers are going to grow
So long as people persist and don't give up