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5/16/2011

Numbers Racket: Why the Democratic Party is a Corporate Lickspittle and Cannot Be the People’s Party


Numbers Racket: Why the Democratic Party is a Corporate Lickspittle and Cannot Be the People’s Party by Dave Lindorff
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Now Tom said "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air
Look for me Mom I'll be there
Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand
Or decent job or a helpin' hand
Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free
Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me."

Well the highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
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With the ghost of old Tom Joad

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