Why has America fallen so low? What's the cause--We need to know!
Surely there's someone handy to blame, someone called Bush, or an African name.
It can't be our own insatiable greed, consuming more goodies than ever we need,
It can't be our wars, can't be our cars, can't be our refusal to tax what's "ours."
It must be those others--the government pols--who've run us amok, who've twisted our goals,
Who've made us a nation with no more to spend, borrowing madly, as if there's no end.
And yet, on occasion, it does give one pause to see, at its root, what--and who--is the cause.
It's we, the people, who've given them rein, and who now, if ever, must reign once again.
