{"id":366,"date":"2013-01-01T19:32:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T03:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=366"},"modified":"2025-10-01T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:32:10","slug":"free-market-trot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/free-market-trot\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Market Trot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2022<em> by Kay Thode<br>\u2022 tune: Put Your Arms around Me, Honey<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Market shares have risen, honey\u2014ain\u2019t it great!<br>Ten thousand million were laid off, but\u2014 that\u2019s their fate.<br>Oh, free markets are so nice,<br>But the workers pay the price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jobs have been exported to a\u2014cross the seas.<br>Wages there are so much lower\u2014if you please.<br>Who cares if wages are down,<br>In your old home town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, when the workers lose, the markets\u2014 rise and rise.<br>Profits are the only thing to\u2014maximize.<br>Oh, oh, don\u2019t you agree<br>That this shouldn\u2019t be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wake up, workers, now it\u2019s time to\u2014rise and fight<br>NAFTA and FTAA with all your might.<br>Oh, free markets are so nice.<br>But the workers pay the price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if you want the workers to have\u2014 their fair share,<br>Join exploited workers here and\u2014everywhere.<br>Fight for what is your due\u2014<br>It is up to you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 by Kay Thode\u2022 tune: Put Your Arms around Me, Honey Market shares have risen, honey\u2014ain\u2019t it great!Ten thousand million were laid off, but\u2014 that\u2019s their fate.Oh, free markets are so nice,But the workers pay the price. Jobs have been exported to a\u2014cross the seas.Wages there are so much lower\u2014if you please.Who cares if wages [&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],"tags":[57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"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=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}