By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO
Cut, the bloated budget, cut it everywhere.
Cut essential services that don’t help billionaires.
Lazy Donald J. Trump defers to Elon M.
As he guts the government and creates mayhem.
Cut USAID, who needs foreign friends?
Some children will surely starve, but what’s the dividend?
Cut the FAA, its funding you must slash.
Does it really matter if airliners will crash?
Cut research for cancer, vaccines, and bird flu.
RFK distrusts science. Elon follows through.
Cut IRS and Medicare with Elon’s stunt chainsaw.
Though Congress approved both, and you’ll break the law.
Cut out Inspector Generals who expose what is not right.
You are unaccountable when there’s no oversight.
Cut Education aid so voters won’t be smart.
Cut NPR and CDC, and don’t forget Head Start.
Cut out these agencies you plan to privatize.
Saving lots of money with what you have downsized.
This frees up the funding for tax breaks for the rich.
Claim you’re cutting waste when it’s bait and switch.
Cut, the bloated budget, cut it everywhere.
Cut essential services that don’t help billionaires.
Cut out all the programs you think nobody needs.
Don’t be so surprised when the country bleeds.
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Laurie Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University.
Brilliant and unfortunately also true.