Biofuels 102
Archer Daniels Midland

How'd we get to be the biggest
    beggar on the block?
It wasn't just by lying with our
    climate changing talk.

Investing in the Congress is
    our secret for success:
A favor here, a dollar there,
    a button we can press.

Ev'rybody has a price and
    we know what theirs is.
Just as ev'ry Mrs. knows
    or she'd still be a Ms.

With us it isn't always sex,
    just something hard to get:
Two tickets to a Super bowl,
    the flight there on our jet.

Subsidies intended for a
    farmer mom and pop –
Increase by tens of thousands
    and our profits never stop.

So we keep acquiring farms
    with subsidies to match.
They're Golden Eggs for ADM
    our Congress lets us hatch.

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

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