We're living in a country that's the finest place of earth
But some folks don't appreciate this land that gave them birth
I hear that up in Washington they're having an awful fuss
'Cause Communists and spies are making monkeys out of us
The bureaus and departments have been busy night and day
They're figuring out just how we gave our secrets all away
And Congress has appointed a committee so they said
To find out who's American and who's a low-down Red.
They call them up to Washington to speak for Uncle Sam
But when they ask them what they are, they shut up like a clam
I wish they'd take and put me on the witness stand today
I'd yell so loud old Stalin could hear me all the way
Refrain: I'm no Communist, and I'll you that right now
I believe a man should own his own house and car and cow
I like this private ownership, and I want to be left alone
Let the government run its business and let me run my own
Our government is bigger than it ever was today
The more they hire to work for it, the more they have to pay
Our public servants should be proud and honest you would think
Instead of taking bribes and dressing up their wives in mink
The taxes keep on going up of that there is no doubt
But still they just can't take it in as fast as they dish it out
Our national debt is monster size and growin' every day
Our children's children, still unborn are gonna have to pay
Our dollar used be the soundest money on this earth
But now two bucks won't even buy a good old dollar's worth
Unless we stop inflation and take care of what we've got
The Communists may win the fight and never fire a shot
He wrote this song with 1950's dollars in mind. Just imagine what he'd think if he saw what was going on in the country today. The government has taken over private industries (GM) and the banking system. They've worked towards socializing our health care in an effort to remove the insurance industry from the picture all together. President Obama has said many times that the Bush tax cuts that helped to grow the economy in the early part of the 2000's will not be renewed. They've outlawed incandescent light bulbs and have mandated that everyone will use compact fluorescent bulbs by 2012.
The government continues to hire workers and they're setting up new positions all the time. The IRS is growing in size to help deal with the healthcare issue. New positions are set up that circumvent the traditional procedures. The media calls them "czars" but they're not officially called that. They oversee a department of the government and report directly to the president. During the term of Ronald Reagan there was one person with that title. Currently there are 36 people under President Barack Obama referred as such.
The United States was designed with the rights of the individual in mind. Private Property, the right to run business as they saw fit. The right to own that business. That's all slowly being taken away, and the government is no longer trying to hide the fact that they're socializing everything. They're out in the open. The general public in America is starting to wake up to that fact and they're not liking it very much.
So make sure you stay informed. Keep current with everything going on and make sure you let your representatives know how you feel. Make sure your neighbors know as well. God told us to help out our fellow man and the environment. It's not up to the government to tell us how to do that.
