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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Love the song and love the singer, Oliver Anthony.

I don't know why you think this is "scary."  He is expressing what many middle and lower class people are thinking and feeling.

Here are the lyrics:
I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day
Overtime hours for bullshit pay
So I can sit out here and waste my life away
Drag back home and drown my troubles away

It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is

Livin' in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
And they don't think you know, but I know that you do
'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end
'Cause of rich men north of Richmond

I wish politicians would look out for miners
And not just minors on an island somewhere
Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat
And the obese milkin' welfare

Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds
Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds
Young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground
'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down

Lord, it's a damn shame what the world's gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is

I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day
Overtime hours for bullshit pay
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The scary part is that the song shows that the wealthy class has once again succeeded in getting the masses to fight amongst themselves:

"And the obese milkin' welfare
Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds
Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds"

This song paints the world as the "hard blue collar worker" verses "the overweight person using food stamps." As if that is where the majority of taxes are going. As if these same people are not as downtrodden as the "working man" lamented in the song. Guess who taught them that falsehood? The Republican "rich men North of Richmond," who themselves are not paying taxes, but are taking the tax dollars and making a profit, while using their $power$ to make sure the singer's audience gets bullsh!t pay forever. And yet, they will vote to keep those dudes in power. Why?

And the song clearly has a Vote Republican anti-tax bent, which ensures that these folks will end up voting for "the [Republican] rich men North of Richmond." As if the 'rich men North of Richmond' were actually paying their fair share of taxes: hint: if they were, the middle class wouldn't have to pay so much to keep our defense system running. What the song doesn't do is convey that Democrats, wealthy or not, want to tax the rich, not the poor, but have to talk about taxes to make it happen. Republicans talk about cutting taxes, but mean only for the wealthy aka "the rich men North of Richmond," which increases the burden on the working class; but they leave that out of their slogans and lies, and so the cycle repeats itself.[/quote]

The Democratic elites want to live in enclaves like Chevy Chase, send their kids to private schools and Ivies (just think of the Bidens pushing all their relatives into Penn and Yale), have nothing to do with MC or poor people, and suggest they get a pass as long as Elizabeth Warren periodically Tweets about forgiving college debt and breaking up Wells Fargo.  But meanwhile inflation is insane, housing is expensive, crime is rampant, and our public schools are falling apart yet obsessed with defending their right to have smutty books in their libraries.

Of course it’s a mess, and it’s the outrage and despair of this song that resonates, even if it is trash musically and the lyrics aren’t exactly coherent. [/quote]

Yes, Wells Fargo is for the working man.  :roll:  Do you know anything about Wells Fargo? Worse bank ever. Their recent scandal involves just removing money from customer’s accounts. Wells Fargo sucks and shut be closed.

As for student loan forgiveness, Biden is having the student loan servicing company meet the agreed upon terms of the original loan. It was always going to be forgiven after 20-25 years per the original agreement of the loan. Students sat through loan counseling and were told this only to discover 20 years later that the loan servicing companies had no method of tracking loans as they are commoditized. [/quote]

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