The week before Christmas
Friday, December 21st, 2007
By Chris Fitzsimon
(The Fitzsimon File will be on hiatus for the holiday until January 2, but check in during the holiday break for reprints of some of this year’s columns.)
‘Twas the week before Christmas and throughout the state’s towns,
There’s not enough water for a field mouse to drown.
Don’t water, no sprinklers, less time in the shower,
Easley’s become water Czar his last year in power.
Mental health’s finally made it to the Govs line of sight,
Maybe now he’ll understand so many families plight.
Some places the services are tough to come by,
As profits now determine the who, where and why.
The hospitals are in crisis, the feds have said so,
The new one’s not open, and there’s already overflow.
Easley’s reign in the mansion is just about through,
The best bet to take his place is Moore or Perdue.
They’re fighting about diplomas, degrees and a birth date,
Mental health, child care and housing will just have to wait.
The GOP has Graham and Smith and Bob Orr
Maybe McCrory will join and make it one more.
They’re mostly mad about taxes and the waste they claim to see,
They’re quick with the soundbites, but the specifics are slipp-ery.
Orr’s against all incentives, which seems like a good plan,
And he’s now talking housing, who is this man.
He wants to help teachers stop stressing about tests,
He’s in the wrong primary, but then he is from the West
The loony right is still yelling, straining the veins in their necks,
To keep spanking our children but not teach them about sex.
They’d rather put kids in adult prison and let school bullies run free,
Than admit that gay people have the right to even be.
Find a problem and they’ll twist and distort all the facts,
And then lay all the blame on immigrants’ backs.
They want kids who were brought here cut off from more learning,
To help demagogues divide us for the votes they are yearning.
“Send them home,” yelled George Cleveland, “On the bus,” cried Larry Brown.
We don’t want too many folks that look different in our towns.
Higher education is in flux as new leaders abound,
So far at least willing to keep admission policies sound.
Lancaster’s left, Rawls is here and Moeser’s soon gone,
The committee’s appointed, the big search is now on.
One way to save money and cut through all the fluff
Let Butch Davis do two jobs, he now makes enough.
Black’s gone, Wright’s wrong, and none of that is fun,
Beason quit lobbying and started waving his gun.
Children can’t see a doc if the parents can’t pay
Bush doesn’t give a SCHIP that kids live that way.
Realtors and homebuilders are smiling ear to ear
They bought local votes to protect their billions this year.
Not even saving lives can make homebuilders blink twice,
No sprinklers in homes, it might raise the price.
The lottery’s still lagging, that’s good news not bad,
It means the people here are too smart to be had
By holiday games, scratch offs and powerballs,
Let’s hope for a lot more lottery shortfalls.
The number two job is also up for election next year,
A long line has formed, exactly why is not clear.
There’s Hampton and Dalton and Smathers and Besse
And Pittenger on the right, trying to be another Jesse.
2007 is almost over, the New Year’s been sighted,
Let’s hope in next one, nobody else is indicted.
Last 5 posts in Fitzsimon File
- The Follies - August 29th, 2008
- Big money and absurd claims in Clay County - August 28th, 2008
- The short and telling special interest session - August 27th, 2008
- New numbers about struggling families - August 26th, 2008
- The top of the influence list - August 25th, 2008
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