Monday, 06 July 2009

• Recession Rhymes to Get Your Kids To Sleep

  
  

  With the recession and the economy on everyone's minds, its a treat to find a light way to think about how bad things are right now, but to laugh about it as well. Milk Your Money featured an interesting article I found amusing called Recession Rhymes. Basically, silly poems in the format of a nursery rhyme to poke fun at the Recession. If you're looking for a funny way to explain the economy to your kids and they're begging for a new nursery rhyme, try these out for size.
  
  
  

  Humpty Dumpty
  Hedge fund managers sat on a wall
  The over leveraged risk takers had a great fall
  All the taxpayer dollars and President’s men
  Tried to put the wall street pieces together again

  Old King Cole
  Old Uncle Sam was a merry old soul and a merry old soul was he
  He called for his checkbook  in the middle of the night
  and he called for AIG
  Every hard working American believed the riddle, and a very fine riddle was he
  Oh there’s none so rare, your tax dollars can’t compare
  With Uncle Sam and his new best friend—AIG

  Jack be Nimble
  Rich be nimble
  CEO’s be quick
  Accredited Investors
  Jumped over the regulators stick

  This Little Piggy
  Rich little piggy went to the market
  Working little piggy stayed home
  Investing piggy stared in disbelief
  Because now he had none
  And all the little piggy’s went
  wee wee wee to their foreclosed homes

  Three Blind Mice
  Billions played nice
  A few rolled the dice
  Now they run and count their sum
  They pushed bad sales  and gave bad advice
  Did you ever see such a thing in your life
  When so few ruined it for all those playing nice?

  
  

  How do you poke fun at the economy?
  

  
  

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