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Wall Street Poet
Michael Silverstein's
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"Nowadays, you can't turn on the TV without some talking head telling you about the economy. Yet, in a world overrun by 'analysts,' only one man has the guts, the brains, and, quite frankly, the poetry to put it all in perspective.That man is Michael Silverstein... Silverstein is a true intellectual." — Gersh Kuntzman, The New York Post
"Few people have found much to laugh about in the stock market this year. Michael Silverstein is the exception. The Bard of the Bourse can find humor in losing money, globalization and stock options." — USA Today
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This past week Chairman Greenspan favored us with his latest thinking about how to save the Social Security system...
Greenspan And Social Security
Alan Greenspan had a great plan
Back in nineteen eighty-three;
He said his plan would surely save
Social Security.
Folks would kick in something extra
From their weekly sal’ry check;
Send the dough into a Trust Fund
To prevent a system wreck.
But instead the Trust’s been rifled
Bit by bit by Beltway slicks,
The money used to help disguise
Yearly budget deficits.
Now this Trust’s become a bad joke,
One that makes the slickers nervous;
Just an IOU collection
That more taxes soon must service.
So the Chairman has a new plan
That he says will make things right:
"We’ll cut the bennies of the old
To help ease our fiscal plight."
I must say it occurs to me,
Given Greenspan’s history,
Instead of a new recipe,
He owes us an apology.
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