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Who will tell the children?

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Who will tell the children that we have allowed the water they need to live to be poisoned by fracking?

Who will tell the children that the beaches on which we used to loll and get sun-tanned were wiped out by the oceans rising because we would not control carbon emissions?

Who will tell the children that they cannot expect a decent job because we allowed transnational corporations to ship them overseas?

Who will tell the children that their votes mean nothing when corporations can buy politicians, elections, policies and anything else that enriches the few at the expense of the rest of us?

Who will tell the children that once upon a time we had schools and teachers that actually taught, not just doing test prep, and that they were paid for by the taxes of all of us?

Who will tell the children that they or their friends or their family might be placed in a fr-profit prison far from home for failure to pay court fees for trumped up charges, a way of enriching those who run those prisons?

Who will tell the children that the tolls they pay to drive on the highways used to go to maintain the highways, not to the profits of foreign corporations, not answerable to our government or our citizens?

Who will tell the children that the government is no longer there to protect and support them, but to enrich the few?

Who will tell the children that what they are taught about American government in textbooks produced by a British Corporation (which also produces the tests that are used to find them wanting in their education) describe a government that no longer exists, no longer works for them?

Who will tell the children that for them there is no longer an American dream, but rather an American nightmare?


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