THE BOOK OF DAMN
YANKEES
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF MANIFEST DESTINY
Franklin Roosevelt gets elected
Chapter 97
But Roosevelt was really great anyway,
2dBecause he offered the Yanks a new deal,
3Based on the idea that what democracy was all about was equality,
4eAnd how nobody was really any better than anybody else,
5Which meant that it was up to the government to kind of even things out,
6fAnd take money away from the people who had too much of it,
7gAnd give it to the people who didn’t have enough of it,
8Because that was only fair,
9hAnd besides, there was a tremendous majority of Yanks who didn’t have enough money,
10iAnd really liked the idea of getting even with the ones who did,
11jWhich is the American Way,
12kSince Yanks weren’t allowed to go off and start their own country anytime they felt like it,
13Anymore.
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