from Steven Vincent Benet:

 

This general in British garb is Oliver de Lancey

He's from a famous family 

and really very fahncy,

very fahncy,

 

They owned large portions of New York, New York

and quite a lot of Jersey, 

but when the revolution came

They all cried out Oh Mercy!

 

Oh Mercy!

 

etc. etc. 

 

 

The Tory way doesn't work.   It didn't 200 years ago and it still doesn't
today.  Oh dear!   The only reason they believe it works is because they
could walk into indigenous cities from here to China and within a couple of
weeks everyone would be dead from their breath and then the Tories would
claim God on their side and move in.   But now they have to live in their
own sewage and the wealthy have constipated the system.   Oh mercy!

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/opinion/europes-failed-course-on-the-econo
my.html?hp

 

Seems the Jewish scholar from Princeton was right.    What's next, a Chinese
Basketball player for the NY Knicks?   A Venezuelan voice teacher's kid
conducting the Philharmonic?   Do I hear someone saying:  

 

"Better to keep those serfs in their place!    Before you know it WE will be
on the road to serfdom!!  Don't stimulate!    Punish those Irish, Spaniards
and Greeks for being uppity.   They threw their money away on Art!    Where
CAN you find a good factory these days to keep them busy and dirty up their
landscape?  Now that would be a REAL political economy!" 

 

:>))

REH

 

PS don't worry, I'm really not prejudiced against the Tories.   I'm just
kidding them.  They know I love Churchill.    He declared war for art.

 

 

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