We
want America
back!
We
want America
to follow the American Dream.
No
more poor fighting rich men’s wars.
If
someone really must go, send the big CEO’s.
Then
leave them there. They’ll find someone
to bring them coffee.
We
don’t care about the Iranian bomb.
Too
many have died in the crusade
against
weapons of mass destruction.
We
are not worried about a terrorist
following
us home like a rabid dog.
We
are not afraid of your boogie man bombers.
We
fear only our mistakes,
we’re
afraid the bombs we have dropped on babies
will
hail back down on us like smoking guns.
We
need to change it all around.
We
need to fight the good war,
the
war against ignorance and cruelty,
the
war against torture and racism,
one
that won’t bankrupt us financially or morally.
We
want America
back!
We
want gays to run the military
and
a lesbian marriage on the White House lawn.
We
want to build homes for the homeless
help
the hungry, take care of the sick,
and
educate the curious,
we
want government to start earning its keep.
Don’t
tell me 47% of America is unwilling to take “personal responsibility”
for
their lives. When is Romney going take
responsibility for his lies?
We
don’t want to hear someone talking about “legitimate” rape.
We
know who is really getting screwed.
We
want America
back! (We want it all back.)
We
not only want decent jobs
but
our jobs to realize
we
work to live not live to work.
We
need time to play with our kids.
We
need schools that are not
brain
numbing factories
where
our kids can learn
what
they care about
and
still have time to be kids.
We
want to make it hard to get married
and
easy to get divorced.
We
want to make blind patriotism illegal
and
to legalize marijuana.
We
want good music in the groceries stores
and
art on the walls of Walmart.
We
want a national holiday for Allen
Ginsberg’s birthday.
We
want to see Obama face off Romney
in
a nationally televised slam.
We
want to silence all politicians
unless
they can speak with rhyme and reason.
We
want to hear about your solutions not
their problems.
We
want to pay our teachers like baseball players.
We
want to give awards to parents
who
listen to their teenagers
and
love them no matter what.
We
want free college,
free
daycare and free healthcare.
We
want doctors to treat humans
not
just disease.
We
want to retire early and securely.
We
want Jimi Hendrix music
in
our Senior Centers.
We
want America
back!
We
want to live in community.
We
want to understand and respect
our
neighbors across the street
and
all across the globe.
We
believe in human rights
for
all people and all nations
even
if they don’t have oil.
We
want to tear down the walls on our border
and
welcome the hard working immigrants
that
have always made America
great.
We
want to learn new languages,
to
embrace new cultures,
to
be a partner not a bully.
We
want to be part of the human
mandala
that will heal the earth.
We
want America back!
We
want Exxon executives to have to walk to work,
Clear
Channel to never play the same song twice,
Procter
& Gamble to care more about cancer than profit,
General
Mills to start making their food sacred.
Take
the money we pay farmers not to plant
and
use it to learn sustainable farming
with
respect for our planet.
We
want to let the trees grow
and
give land back to the animals.
We
want our Native Americans
to
manage our national forests.
We
want one rider SUVs banned
from
all public highways.
We
don’t want to drill
the
last of our wilderness,
not
now, not ever.
We
want the oil companies to give back
the
money they are stealing from us.
We
want electric cars not tax breaks for the rich.
We
want the power of the wind
and
the sun and the oceans,
we
want to plan now to stop
global
warming before it is too late.
We
want America back!
We
want rivers we can drink out of
and
cities we can walk in.
We
want a real democracy,
where
voters pick the candidates.
We
want to elect our president
by
national popular vote.
Ban
all campaign ads.
Use
the money to register more voters,
to
run more candidates.
We
want to reserve the rights of free speech
for
real people, not big corporations.
Make
the corporate donors admit what that
are
trying to buy for all that money.
We
need a president who cares
for
all Americans, who speaks for the people
not
the corporations, and a congress that will
work
together and do what is best for the country
no
matter whether or not
they
think it will benefit their party.
In
fact, ban all political parties!
We
need a no party system,
with
no corporate personage,
with
politicians jailed for lying,
and
the media paid by how thoughtful,
balanced
and complete they report
what
is really happening.
We need
Americans to understand we are taking America back!
