Too much of nothing...

Thanx to 2Truthy for the inspiration:

Nothing is free, so far, which is why we have so much of it lately, mostly given to us by those in the Government. They feel generous toward us so much so that they are willing to give us nothing by the truckload. It makes them feel good to give us all this nothing. Yet to them, we're greedy to take all the nothing they want to give us and ask for something in return.

For years we’ve asked for help with the environment, jobs, education and healthcare and other necessities of life and our Government and business has actively responded by giving us record amounts of nothing, but for a price. It does take a lot of money to allow Congress to see that we get nothing. But you have to give them credit. For the money they get, they really do go out of their way to give us nothing. Our Congress passes lots of laws to give more and more of us nothing, which some on the right side of the aisle say is more than we deserve. They even have people lobbying to see if we can get more nothing.

Too much of nothing may cause inflation and our Government doesn’t want that. Prices for nothing business is providing us are going up too fast. People seem to be accumulating nothing at an increasing rate. We are spending more to buy nothing. More and more people are working for nothing, especially student’s with summer jobs. And employees are earning more nothing for longer work hours. Senior citizens get so much more nothing from social security now than they did years ago. Our homes are filling with nothing. Our gas tanks are filling with nothing. Our stomachs are filling with more nothing than we can hold. Some people have so much nothing to eat that their stomachs can’t handle it. Even our brains are filling with as much nothing as the Media can give us. Our students get a great deal of nothing for their education; not like the immigrant students that have to struggle with something provided by their own governments and sometimes by ours. Our president and Congress now graciously give nothing for Bush’s monumental idea of NCLB. Disaster victims get a lot of nothing from the government..

It’s not even possible to judge the amount of nothing we all get from the healthcare industry. Seems nothing’s too good for us when business needs to diagnose us with any problems. That must be why they do everything they can to provide us with as much nothing as they can give us.

Business still hasn’t learned, though. They still make us pay for nothing. Their price for nothing keeps rising.

The poor are the most fortunate ones. They’ve been given nothing by the Government and upper class for so long that they need nothing and have come to depend on getting it.

It seems Congress wants to make sure that every sector of our society gets nothing. Soon we'll have more nothing than we could ever have in a lifetime.

Nothing's quite as sure as change. And change is needed...at any cost.
Sometimes the only thing that will make a person see the light is to keep him in the dark for a while; either that or a 2x4 to the back of the head. A friend suggested that the less there is at the top, the more there is for the bottom.
We must remember the lesson of the French resistance in the 1940s before we have too much of nothing.

Too Much of Nothing by Peter, Paul and Mary
Words by Robert Dylan

Now, too much of nothing
Can make a man feel ill at ease.
One man's temper might rise
While another man's temper might freeze.
In the day of long confession
We cannot mock a soul.
Oh, when there's too much of nothing,
No one has control.

Say hello to Valerie
Say hello to Marian
Send them all my salary
On the waters of oblivion

Too much of nothing
Can make a man abuse a king.
He can walk the streets and boast like most
But he wouldn't know a thing.
Now, it's all been done before,
It's all been written in the book,
But when there's too much of nothing,
Nobody should look.

Say hello to Valerie
Say hello to Marian
Send them all my salary
On the waters of oblivion

Too much of nothing
Can turn a man into a liar,
It can cause one man to sleep on nails
And another man to eat fire.
Ev'rybody's doin' somethin',
I heard it in a dream,
But when there's too much of nothing,
It just makes a fella mean.

Say hello to Valerie
Say hello to Marian
Send them all my salary
On the waters of oblivion