“LOPPING THE LARGESSE”
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The more the wealth, the more the greed,
Millionaires wish to be billionaires with speed !
Proliferating are they with profiteering force,
Creating uncalled for inflation in due course !
There are also a number of trillionaires,
Cherishing largesse in all their spheres !
To lower their largess they shower donations,
C.A.’s and taxation experts exact appropriations !
Main beneficiary are our liberal Governments,
From whom they expect reciprocal commitments !
All the Government machinery operates as puppets
Of such financiers who thus achieve their targets !
Top ten rich men dominate competitive global hold,
Enumerated below ad seriatim as somebody told !
(1) William Gates III-”$ 40.0 bil.”—Self-made.
(2) Warren Buffet-”$ 37.0 bil.”—Self-made.
(3) Carlos Slim Helu & Family-”$ 35.0 bil.”—Self-made.
(4) Lawrence Ellison-”$ 22.5 bil.”—Self-made.
(5) Ingvar Kamprad & Family-”$ 22.0 bil.”—Self-made.
(6) Karl Albrecht-”$ 21.5 bil.”—Self-made.
(7) Mukesh Ambani-”$ 19.5 bil.”—Inherited & growing.
(8) Laxmi Mittal-”$ 19.3 bil.”—Inherited & growing.
(9) Theo Albrecht-”$ 18.8 bil.”—Self-made.
(10) Amancio Ortega-”$ 18.3 bil.”—Self-made.
Next to these toppers are so many men,
Also growing fast to figure among them !
Wealth of the world has thus been centralized
Which needs to be unanimously criticized !
The group of quite numbered such toppers
Consists of solely biggest buyers and shoppers !
They are undeniably the creators of disparities
Between the rich and the poor communities !
World population of approximately 7-billion
Is innocently watching their game from the pavilion !
It’s now high time to create impactful renaissance,
To urge upon all the Governments without patience,
To enforce logical laws imposing fiscal stipulation
So as to bring about financial decentralization !
Subsequently then to eradicate peoples’ poverty,
Providing each sector with fundamental property !
This is apt to be achieved on humanitarian ground,
By creating renaissance among hoi polloi around !
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10 Comments
Yet another brilliant assesment of this sorry state of affairs, of this great need for greed.
ashwini kumar goswami Reply:
November 28th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
@Ray, Many a great thank, Dear
Mr. Ray for your endorsement !
Brilliant & meaningful poem and a nice lateral view of looking at this phenomenon of riches.
I may sound foolish, but I am beginning to feel that in spite of whatever philanthropic activities known and advertised about the very rich people, in the situation rampant today where people are simply chasing money by hook or crook and making all other activities in life as superfluous, amassing & hoarding wealth beyond a particular limit should be considered as legal crime against society and world at large. I don’t know why this is not possible to be implemented and why not considered as possible or prudent. This would in my opinion make most people live more purposeful lives in all its aspects and afford things needed with better distribution of wealth and affordability, rather than hankering for money all their lives. I know the subject is very involved.
Hats off to you for the idea of a poem on the subject & the poem proper.
ashwini kumar goswami Reply:
November 28th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
@Vishvnand, Your comments on such
topics always seem more emphatical than even the gist of the poem
and whenever I happen to post such poems your observations are very
anxiously awaited to exalt the girth of my endeavours ! So many great
thanks !
yes!This is a great poem on the farce made fact ,that these people and the number against their names are coz of solely their own honest,indepenent, intellectual hardship .If everyone even from the lowest level of hierarcial order is given their rightful due and yet they manage these numbers then this farce can be considered for tolerance.Yes I sncerely believe in your words that decentralised finance.
ashwini kumar goswami Reply:
November 29th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
@kanchana, Thanks kanchan for
your witty observations. Please try to understand the gist of the poem, which focuses
upon the indirectly implied and assessed aftereffects of the centralized largessy
vis-a-vis the wide-spreading inflation and poverty over a major part of 7.o bil. of the
world population !
Economic Poetry…
Brilliantly written….
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Ashwini,
very powerful indictment of rampant capitalism. Reads well
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ashwini kumar goswami Reply:
November 28th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
@Gion Gion, Thanks Dear Gion
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