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Spare Change
We the people with money
 In order to form a nation better for us
 Have set forth a standard of rules
 That please only the writers, but benefit America
 
 We the Greedy pledge allegiance 
 To the needs of the people 
 Of the united states of politicians
 In which money is life, and life is power
 
 Four score and a few memories ago
 Our frugal founding fathers set forth a nation
 For the wealthy to destroy and overrun
 Democracy to disguise the evil face of gluttony
 
 For the people, by the people
 But controlled by the paper faces of presidents
 That exists in the budgets of our nation
 But not in the pockets of average Joe
 
 The right to life, liberty
 And the pursuit of affluence
 Is all that really matters in the end
 To the selected insatiable rulers with the only real power
 
 All men are created equal
 But only if the politicians give the okay
 Equality before the law coming
 With the price tag of a thousand dollar lawyer
 
 What do Americans want?
 Change
 But only if it's change for a million
  In the form of nickels and dimes

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I totally agree with this poem.  Loved how you made the Pledge of Alligence and Preable a little different.  I loved the message of the poem too.
I think if I might have done something with the Star Spangled Banner too.
"Oh say can you see?
By the fading light
What so proudly we hailed
When the world was once right
Ok that accidentally rhymed so that wasn't supposed to happen but you get the point
Thanks! I agree with you completely. We need more people to think like you. That's why I wrote this poem. Thank you again!
 
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