The Senate’s spending trillions
But the House would like some more
They want it to be five
But they could compromise at four
Soon they’ll reach agreement
But Joe’s signature won’t end it
For once they’ve gone and passed it
It will be a job to spend it.
For if you stack them one by one
Cause dollars are so thinnish…
Forget it—that’s not a job that
You would ever finish
I’ve done the mathematics
For my number-challenged peers
Assuming they spend evenly
Across the next four years
Let’s say it’s just 4 trillion
Then they’ll have to find a way
To pay out 2 point 7 billion
Each and every day
In the DC Universe
Who needs a super power
To drop a hundred million dollars
Each and every hour
To act with such audacity
I give them my respects
But no one has the stamina
To write out all those checks
And like the seeds from cottonwoods
When summer winds are blowing
No one has the auditors
To track where it’s all going
Margaret Thatcher said it
And I used to think it funny
That government could reach the end
Of other people’s money
Budgets kept increasing
And the government survived
But the day that she envisioned
I think, sadly, has arrived
So welcome to the Green New Deal
Inflation that’s unending
All brought to you in the disguise
Of Infrastructure spending
