ADM Buys Congress
On the cheap

A quarter million bought the Congress in 2008,
A Triple A investment Moodys wasn't paid to rate.
The subsidies they gave us in return for what we paid
Proved how inexpensively those idiots are swayed.
For pennies on the dollar we'll make billions free and clear,
A bargain at ten times the price of Harry Reid's career.

Andreas, our ex-CEO, talked tithing ten percent.
What Congress won't admit is where that tithing went,
Or that for Dwayne Andreas church has always been the state
Where pliant politicians are the ones who pass the plate,
That the friendly benefactor and benefactee's ADM –
A little quid for mucho quo remains our stratagem.

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
1/23/09

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