Where Did All The Money Go

The Stone Age of Economic
Rationalism is dead, long live
the New Age! Alas cerebral
embarrassment is why we
have to change, not an agreed
choice I concede, not a course
we’d have needed but for the
intransigence of the last
dinosaurs clinging to power.
And we have no easy
choices left to us now.

They have to go to make
way for new ideas, for plans
and policies that take the
future as a real constituency,
not effects of dolorous thoughts
of financiers – they have to go
too because they’re entrenched
in yesteryear. There is no room
for toadying comfort seekers,
acceptors of bribes and gaudy
promises. Hear ye, gather
ye, and get thee gone.

There will be hard years,
hot years and years of
drought to endure. But we
knew of them before this
economic miracle made us
less aware of a World gone to
wrack and ruin on the back of
rampant fiscal growth and a few
profit sharers’ extraordinary
largesse. And where did all the
money go? Can’t you guess!
© 9 May 2007, I.D. Carswell