The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #19398   Message #198251
Posted By: Bert
20-Mar-00 - 05:35 PM
Thread Name: Folk Music and Politics
Subject: RE: Folk Music and Politics
Hey Tony, do you have any songs about - higher taxes, "equal opportunity" quotas, the federal departments of Education and Housing & Urban Development, and most social welfare programs?
Us Lefties often find things to criticize in the same list.
Also, many of can see that there are two sides to the hunting issue. Many's the time I've eaten 'Bambi-burgers' and as a meat eater I can't criticize killing animals for food. Now killing just for 'trophies' that's waste, and I think it's wrong.

But I found that 'the virtues of hard work, self-reliance and entrepreneurship' didn't help a whole lot when I was out of work.

There are political songwriters out there today, though; Tom Paxton pokes fun at politicians of both sides. And he even gives workshops on the subject of political songwriting.

Bert.