Dreams Are Made of Money - Sam Carter

Budget day 2013; the nations economy is stagnant, peoples wages are falling in real terms and many businesses have an uncertain future. Will anything change for the millions of people struggling to get by? I very much doubt it. This Chancellor is an ideologue acting on very little personal knowledge and taking advice from people who have their own interests at heart. David Blanchflower, among other leading economists, has been frank in his assessment of the Chancellor and what is required from this budget:

Over the last year the deficit has increased, the economy has flatlined and the AAA credit rating has been lost. Animal spirits remain worryingly low and it looks like we are headed into triple-dip recession. Osborne is directly responsible for the slowest recovery since the nineteenth century and needs to apologise to the British people for his abject failure.
Reckless and misguided austerity has failed miserably as many of us predicted it would. A fiddling at the edges Budget won't do.
The basic rate of income tax should be cut by 2% along with a 5% cut in VAT alongside a major boost spending on the infrastructure, primarily on housebuilding. But he won't do it.

Major corporations and banks continue to increase their profits and hoard their cash while the majority of people are treading water. If you’re broke and you know it, wave your P45; Dreams are made of money.

Dreams Are Made of Money
from No Testament by Sam Carter

You can tell yourself anything you like
Dreams are made of money
From your mortage down to your kid’s first bike
Dreams are made of money
When you’re in the red and you long for black
Dreams are made of money
When your head’s full of worry as you hit the sack
Dreams are made of money

Here’s the rainy day we’ve been spending for
Dreams are made of money
Now we’ve blown the loan and we still need more
Dreams are made of money
And we’re bailing out as the markets crash
Dreams are made of money
When we’re strapped to a parachute that’s made of cash
Dreams are made of money

Condemned, condemned, you can hear the cry
Dreams are made of money
While the placards wave and the banners fly
Dreams are made of money
Keep your CV handy and your hopes alive
Dreams are made of money
If you’re broke and you know it, wave your P45
Dreams are made of money

You can tell yourself anything you like
Dreams are made of money
From your mortage down to your kid’s first bike
Dreams are made of money
When you’re in the red and you long for black
Dreams are made of money
When your heads full of worry as you hit the sack
Dreams are made of money