Who Needs Bank Reforms?
Don't they have sufficient rope?

Forget most forms of bank reform;
    who says they'll need more rope
Before they're all in such a mess
    there's no way they can cope?

Let them continue doing
    what Blythe Masters does so well.
Next time they'll find it's them not us
    that gets to go through hell.

Will they end up like Bernie?
    In two or three more years
They'll owe each other so much that
    they'll fall on their own spears.

But retroactive bonus taxes
    plus the Internal Revenue
Will trigger banker window-jumping
    from ev'ry office with a view.

Undertaker overtime?
    Their prospects look so good
That Wall Street's gamblers will have wagered
    ev'ry credit swap they could.

Each believes we'll bail him out –
    "Think again, you Greedy Bastard!
Sure, we like a drink or two, but
    seldom get that plastered."

For those without a window view
    there'll always be Blackwater,
And mass assisted suicides –
    Their specialty is slaughter.

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
1/15/10

To 'Bush League Bankers'
To 'No Good Deed Goes Unpunished'