"Big Government"

Can be sung to "That's what I get" by NIN
"The rich try to whittle away something from the pitiful wages of the poor by private fraud and even by public laws.
To pay so little to men who deserve the best from the state is in itself unjust, yet it is made "just" legally by passing a law."

"When I weigh in my mind all the other states which flourish today, so God help me, I can discover nothing but a conspiracy of the rich,
who pursue their own agrandizement under the name and title of the government. They devise all ways and means to keep safely
what they have unjustly acquired, and to buy up the toil and labor of the poor as cheaply as possible and oppress them.
When these schemes of the rich become established by the government, which is meant to protect the poor as well as the rich, they become law."

"With insatiable greed these wicked men divide among themselves the goods which would have been enough for all." -- St. Thomas More's Utopia, 1516 

	How come politicians claim to be
	Defending civil rights and liberties
	But then invoke divine authority
	When they want to steal some property

		But that's what you get
		With big government
		That's full of [it] and won't represent
		People's consent

	Instead of "Equal Justice Under Law"
	It's cheaper just to buy out City Hall  
	While soldiers fight for freedom overseas
	Our own judges run a Communist regime

		But that's what we get
		When we submit
		To false government that won't respect
		Anyone's consent

			Democracy is not a sport
			Human rights are not some game
			That we can stand to lose in court
			Playing with eminent domain
	
	I don't consent
	To big government
	That's overspent and won't respect
	Laws they were meant to represent

	I can't submit
	To hypocrites
	Who don't respect all citizens'
	Right to elect self-government
	Based on consent

"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter
or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers
in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
-- Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence

"All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority,
and instituted for their benefit. The faith of the people of Texas stands pledged to the preservation of
a republican form of government, and, subject to this limitation only, they have at all times the inalienable right
to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient."
-- Article I, Section 2, Bill of Rights, Texas Constitution

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