The Financial Crisis That Wouldn't Go Away

So every now and then I actually try to like

Pretend that this political system is real or substantial

And then some major coonery like this stuff that's going on

With the financial system right now happens

So this is to Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke

Your boy Alan Greenspan does the best that he can

To walk away from this mess with clean hands

He cut interest rates to the floor and shit

Supported the lending of sub-prime mortgages

To people far too poor to afford this shit

Yeah, on the surface sure it seems great

Giving poor folks a road into real estate

But don't get comfortable, wait

The payments start to rise, it's adjustable rate

Lenders flip em like they hustling weight

And sell the debt from your apartment on foreign markets

This predatory mortgage started without the hint of a down payment

Flipping it sounds dangerous

And greedy investors flipping promissory notes

On the hopes of future interest when the borrower is broke

This was the housing bubble, now

Hundreds of thousands struggle to fight foreclosure

And moreover, the big banks take a spanking

They came from kinked up to bankrupt tanking

Institutions the world bank depends on

Gone like the companies WorldCom and Enron

Now here comes the crazy part

The feds starts to bail em out days apart

Instead of folding em or scolding em

The U.S. government bank takes control of em

The same folks that insisted to keep the rates low on the interest

And told the banks to go rape folks

And pillage and make those millions

Knowing it would fail

Now they sliding though controlled with the bailouts

They should go under the jailhouse

For economic devastating, calculating

Lehman, Stearns and Merril's failing

But they out parasailing with Sarah Palin

The computer model is called the financial accelerator

I went to see it at the office of Mark Cutler

A professor of economics at New York University