FUNNY MONEY
Whoever invented our legal tender
Must have done so
On a weekend bender.
Our money, you see,
Rests on debt, not equity.
Thus our money’s worth less
Whenever the U.S. Mint
Fires up the printing press.
They say that money
Won’t grow on trees,
But Fed Governors create it
Whenever they please.
The government promises to repay the Fed.
By the time it does so,
We’ll all be dead.
So our purchasing power
Drops by the hour,
An inflationary tax
Hurting the poor to the max.
Once our money was backed by gold,
But they had to put a stop to that
So the government would not fold.
Now they mint money like there’s no tomorrow —
Why bother building wealth
When it’s so easy to borrow?
