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Get 'er Done

We need better leaders.

I was talking with a friend yesterday about the high cost of gas these days, and I started to think about how our elected officials promise everything during their campaigns but then deliver nothing once they get in. 

It is not a Democrat or Republican thing, it is just a politician thing.  When they are running for office they come out and shake hands, kiss babies, eat at local restaurants and go on and on about how they will change things if we just elect them.  And as you can see, it has worked!  The changes are all around us: higher gas prices, higher food prices, less jobs, more anger, more disappointment, more scandals and more rhetoric.  So I came up with a message for the folks in Washington and Illinois that I put in the form of a song called, "Get Er Done or Quit". 


Get 'Er Done or Quit
by Annivar Salgado (c) 2012

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V-1

Well the politicians always say

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Everything will be alright

Just blindly put your faith in us

And we will lead you to the light

But I guess that I just don’t believe

Cause there’s just too much strife

And it seems to me, and you might agree

They can’t seem to get it right

Ch:

Hey you! Up there in Washington

Sitting up on Capitol Hill

Why can’t you all just compromise

Before more blood is spilled

Bring back those kids you sent to war

This country you must fix

So get to the things you said you’d do

And get 'er done or quit

V-2

Now maybe if the President

Would come down to my town

He could meet the folks that he represents

And see what we’re about

You see we don’t need the congress

Telling us the way to live

We’ve given all we have and more

We’ve got no more to give

Bridge:

We’ve lost our jobs, we’ve lost our homes

We’re struggling to survive

But we still love this land of ours

And you need to make things right

 

Maybe someone will see this and get the message to those in charge that what we need now more than ever is real "leadership."  You run for office as a Democrat or Republican, but once you are elected you are supposed to act and vote in the best interest of the people you represent, not the party you are in. 

Senators, congressmen and the president are elected to serve all of us and they need to be reminded often of that fact.  We have to change the way politicians especially in Washington think so that the DC in Washington, DC, no longer stands for Don't Care! 

So get 'er done guys and let's make a better America. 

 

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