Twas the night before Christmas and the bailed out bankers were all smug in their bonuses

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LISTEN TO A READING BY RON DZWONKOWSKI
A Christmas poem: 'Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry bailouts'
DECEMBER 24, 2008
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Listen as Free Press Editorial Page Editor Ron Dzwonkowski reads the following poem:

Twas the night before Christmas with the world in recession,
And Michigan buried ’neath a one-state Depression.
The factories were closed by the car companies in fear
That no money from Washington would arrive ’til next year.

On Wall Street the brokers were packing briefcases
And shuffling to subways with very long faces.
The Dow Jones had fallen to another record low,
And three banks were in ’ruptcy, where else could they go?

Of course Freddie and Fannie were snug in their bed,
And not by coincidence their quilt was bright red.
A third shape, between them, was watching the two.
’Twas their Uncle Sam, to tell them what they could — and could not — do.

The insurers and bankers had all written their lists
But weren’t too excited since they’d already got gifts.
The Treasury money that bailed out their firms
Had come back in October, pretty much without terms.

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— With best wishes for ’09 from Free Press Editorial Page Editor Ron Dzwonkowski.

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1. So sadly fitting on this eve