The Latest American Dream

[Sunstone]

("The World Trade Organization proposes to privatize all the world's water...[to]...promote trade." --- news article)

Me, I want to own Lake Michigan
And sell its tears to Chicago,
Or ship it to replenish the Oglala
And make the American desert bloom

Or maybe by aqueducts
Drain it into Texas
Where the world's six billion will come
Invited by Rush Limbaugh, host,
To live on a half-acre each
(Or is it a quarter now?)
In Tex-Utopia:
A suburb of Dallas
With splendid bluegrass lawns.

I know where to get
The concrete for the channels
But I haven't figured out
What to do with the Michigan fish:
They stink without water, you see.
And the problem is,
When I get to Texas
Will I still smell them?

 

[Valjean]

I like it, but Oglala and Limbaugh need their spelling fixed.

 

[Sunstone]

I like it, but Oglala and Limbaugh need their spelling fixed.

Thank you, Sey! Done. And done.

Have you heard anything recently about the WTO's plans? Are they still trying to privatize the world's water? If I had to guess, I'd say "yes", but I haven't heard anyting about it lately.

 

[Valjean]

I've heard of some South American communities where water was privatized and the poor had to resort to drinking from puddles, &c, but I don't know about the machinations of the WTO.

 

[Sunstone]

I've heard of some South American communities where water was privatized and the poor had to resort to drinking from puddles, &c, but I don't know about the machinations of the WTO.

Thanks! I've heard the same about some South American communities. I think I'm going to start keeping an eye on the WTO again. I used to casually follow what it was up to, but then lost track of it.