Is It Asking Too Much?

 

Is it asking too much

To have an explanation

Into some of the goings-on

Of activities in this Nation?

 

Is it asking too much

To request an account

Into the millions borrowed?

Such an enormous amount!

 

Is it asking too much

Considering we pay taxes

And government has a responsibility

To report on its practices?

An account of the tax

Collected at the petrol pumps

And the disbursing

Of the entire amount.

An explanation of recovery

In terms of the economy

In a matter of months

Given COVID-19’s ferocity.

An account of loans engaged

And how disbursed

Re: this excessive borrowing

As a matter of course.

Why NIS is added to pension

To increase taxable income,

For old age pensioners

Whose work days are done.

 

Pensioners have paid their dues-

Some for over forty years,

Is it asking too much

That they be allowed to enjoy

Their retirement years?

 

Morning and evening words

Are invariably different

And we the tax payers deserve to know

How come we buy the house

And still must pay rent?

 

Is it asking too much

To have some light shed

On this darkness that engulfs us?

Enough said!

 

Stewart Russell © May 4, 2023