Here's your problem. Here's why the big, well-connected companies and individuals on Wall Street and elsewhere are being bailed out by Uncle Sam and you're not. Your problem is that they are too big to fail, while you are too small not to fail.

Too Small Not To Fail

You'd think that Wall Street failures, when their schemes go rank and stale
Would be driven to the poor house, maybe do a stretch in jail.

You'd think these schemers' victims would wrest justice from this tale
That their interests would get precedence, their just needs would prevail.

Think again, the painful truth folks is though victims rant and wail
They will get no help from Washington, they're too small not to fail.

On the Beltway's long-rigged scale, fat cat bunglers get the bail
Congress is no holy grail for those not too small to fail.
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