{"id":1111,"date":"2013-01-28T18:22:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T02:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:22:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:22:59","slug":"whose-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/whose-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Welfare?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><em>by Kay Thode <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>tune: She\u2019ll Be Coming Round the Mountain<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re rich and ask for welfare, they will come.<br>\nIf you\u2019re rich and ask for welfare, they will come.<br>\nThey will grant a new exemption<br>\nFrom state and local taxes,<br>\nThey will grant a new exemption when they come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re poor and ask for welfare, they will come.<br> If you\u2019re poor and ask for welfare, they will come.<br> They will tell you there\u2019s a limit,<br> And YOU have reached that limit,<br> They will tell you there\u2019s NO welfare, when they come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re poor and cold and homeless, they will come.<br>\nIf you\u2019re poor and cold and homeless, they will come.<br>\nThey will kick you off the sidewalk<br>\nAnd say (speak)\u201cYou\u2019re bad for business\u201d<br>\nThey will kick you off the sidewalk when they come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it\u2019s time to build a movement, yes it is.<br>\nOh, it\u2019s time to build a movement, yes it is.<br>\nThat will help the poor and needy\u2014<br>\n<em>(speak)<\/em> NOT the corporate greedy!<br>\nOh, it\u2019s time to build a movement that helps all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re rich and ask for welfare, they will come. If you\u2019re rich and ask for welfare, they will come. They will grant a new exemption From state and local taxes, They will grant a new exemption when they come. If you\u2019re poor and ask for welfare, they will come. If you\u2019re poor and ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,36],"tags":[57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}