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Help me lord, help me to see straight, help to see beauty. Help me to see the good, help me to see you.
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Frustration
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Saitama Nights
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Flight Of The Pigeon
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Arpeggio and Horns
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Rockaway Blues
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Down
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samples of "yeah" and "here I am with you" and "brand new life"
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Any Such Thing
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Clocks
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1099 (Sub Minimum Wage)
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Minimum wage, we've got a way around that...
You've heard me talk about the 1099 before
but here's why it's such a threat to the poor
For 1099, you're supposed to be a subcontractor
setting your own pay, setting your own hours
Getting commission on something that's supposed to pay a decent wage
It was never designed to be a way for employers to enslave and impoverish employees under the guise that they're just independent contractors
But that's what it's become in New York City
It's not working, get it right and fix it
$8 an hour might be too high to be the minimum
but for $5 an hour for twice as much work for overtime hours
with no overtime pay is too little
And it's not just the milkman messengers from Long Island City (Mitchells) that are doing this
How about some inedible fruit arrangements from Manhattan with a legal wage the reward after months of 5 an hour?
How about the big kahuna of messenger companies (Urban Express) that switched to low commission and no tax help after paying above the old minimum wage last year?
Nobody seems to know or care
and they think the ones getting paid a legal wage are the only ones getting screwed
Some think that more pay with benefits is too little
and some think that the taxpayers are their piggy bank
Why should they get one penny more
when there are people earning far less, working a lot more
And not getting a legal wage?
Fix the 1099 gap so those trapped in it can get a legal wage
fix the healthcare system
but not by forcing people to buy insurance and driving those premiums through the roof
fix poverty by helping the poor become not poor
instead of punishing them by making them or keeping them poor
The leftist ideas from before didn't work then and they are making stuff worse now
Quit making stuff too expensive
Quit overtaxing the rich when their money can alleviate some of the suffering
and they can move their money with them
Leaving those who cannot afford the bill the only ones who can pay for it.
Quit saying life and self defense and religion are part of the problem and not welcome
When they may be part of the solution
The 1099 perps aren't the only problem
the jackasses need to go too
get it right before the wrong type of revolution comes
and heads start rolling
and no one wins
it's not working, get it right and fix it
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Is there any such thing as joy anymore?
Help Me to find my way
From the burning mountains to the flooded shores
is there any such place as home anymore?
Trapped somewhere between Heaven, Hell, and Rockaway
between what's left of America and Europe
somewhere where the poor are getting poorer
the Faith is under attack
what used to be wrong is now right
and what used to be right is now not welcome
Somewhere in Rockaway
the pigeons, seagulls, and piping plovers are fighting over food at the shore
and the plovers are holding up the new Boardwalk until 2017! politicians are fighting over monetary food over how progressive they can be
when they're really regressive
who says someone being pro-life and wanting to defend oneself has no business being in New York?
Maybe Cuomo, DeBlasio, and their ACORN and jackass buddies should leave New York instead!
I'm to poor to live here comfortably............
Stuck somewhere between Heaven, Hell, and Rockaway
and maybe somewhere between Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Texas if things don't work out here......
Who said I had to stick to one style?
Who said I had to leave things the way they were?
It's a brave but messed up new world and I'm trying to adapt
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Thomas Clarke Colorado Springs, Colorado
Thomas Clarke was born in Abilene, TX, and raised in Colorado Springs. In the early 1990s, he first met producer Steve Peak (Speak Online), who introduced him to songwriting. He attended Brooklyn College in the late 1990s. He was one of the co-stars and contributed music to a 2014 art production about homelessness in Austin called “Am I Invisible”. ... more
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