They say it’s class warfare, they say the rich have won

They don’t understand the hurly burly’s not done

Their smug sense of victory will be somewhat misplaced

It’s hard to be elite when the planet’s laid to waste

 

They plunder and they pillage and they take more than they need

They’re selling all our futures just to feed their selfish greed

They think they’re sitting pretty, up there above us all

Those highest in the burning tree will have farthest to fall

 

We’re pennies in their pockets, we’re pawns in their great game

Then they try to say the losers only have themselves to blame

Their master plan for dominance will have one major glitch

The day the poor have nothing left to eat but the rich

 

"There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning."

Warren Buffet

Interview with CNN, 25 May 2005, quoted by the New York Times 26 November 2006

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