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Can't Make It Here Anymore *

There’s a Vietnam Vet with a cardboard sign

Sitting there by the left turn line

Flag on his wheelchair flapping in the breeze

One leg missing and both hands free

No one’s paying much mind to him

The V.A. budget’s just stretched so thin

And now there’s more coming back from the Mideast war

We can’t make it here anymore

That big ol’ building was the textile mill that fed our kids and it paid our bills

But they turned us out and they closed the doors

We can’t make it here anymore

 

 

See those pallets piled up on the loading dock

They’re just gonna sit there ‘til they rot

‘Cause there’s nothing to ship, nothing to pack

Just busted concrete and rusted tracks

Now I’m stocking shirts in the Wal-Mart store

Just like the ones we made before

‘ Cept this one came from Singapore

I guess we can’t make it here anymore

 

Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin

Or the shape of their eyes or the shape I’m in

Should I hate ‘em for having our jobs today

No I hate the men sent the jobs away

I can see them all now, they haunt my dreams

All lily white and squeaky clean

They’ve never known want, they’ll never know need

Their shit don’t stink and their kids won’t bleed

Their kids won’t bleed in their damn little war

And we can’t make it here anymore!!!

 

~by James McMurtry
COMMENTS
Queenanneslace0724 said at 2:19 p.m. on Oct 17, 2008:
I'd just like to add that these Free Trade Agreements seem to be mainly for the BIG Corporations - as workers rights - both countries - and the environment seem to loose out!
Jantass said at 2:16 a.m. on Oct 21, 2008:
Excellent images and shots
Chilla said at 3:24 p.m. on Nov 11, 2008:
Kimberley this is such an excellent tabblo, but so very sad.
Moabjeeper said at 4:12 p.m. on Nov 11, 2008:
Very sad.
YorkJodi said at 5:27 p.m. on Nov 11, 2008:
Yes... very good... such a big problem... what's the answer?? Sad!!!
Babooshka said at 1:31 p.m. on Nov 12, 2008:
guess the lyric is true how sad..... Whatever war is good for.... But as long there are people there will be hatred & war, and poorness and so on.... It'll only stop if people start loving each other, even the ones not loving them, but that's pretty hard..... Ok I'll stop philosophing.....

Hope you won't be hit too hard by the crisis at the moment...
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