Budget Balancing Act (or How I Shifted from a Leaner to a Lifter)

Joe Hockey tells us

With great authority

And a certain amount of regret

That apparently some of us “lean”

As opposed to the “lifters”

Now most of us are quite familiar

With the idea of Archimedes' Fulcrum

(at least those of us who were

educated under that sweet system

of state funded schools where science

was taught by people who are passionate

about it and not trying to cosy paying

Students through to a certification

That allows them to be just as dumb

And antisocial at University as they were

At High School and eventually seek

A career in politics because they are

Bored and shit at everything else...)

Back to Archimedes' Fulcrum

The idea that with a big enough

Lever you could lift the world

Provided you had a solid ground

To
Lift
It
From

Thus the conundrum

What holds the world up?

Given the shortage of tortoises

It would seem

To the untrained

And unpolitical eye

That holding the world up

And having a base to press against

Are the poor, disenfranchised, the weak

The homeless, the drug addicted

The disabled, the unemployed

We are your fulcrum

Your balancing act

We know that “Lifting” And “Leaning”

Are the same thing

Given the laws of thermodynamics
But like Galileo

It is against our religion to admit it

© shaun patrick green 2014