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Poetry
Simple Subtractions
The latest blitz of taxpayer-funded advertising has revealed a crisis of arithmetic in government ranks has moved resident bard David Peetz to prose.
While the official statistics show that non-managerial workers on AWAs earn $23.40 an hour, 50 cents an hour less than the $23.90 an hour earned by the average non-managerial worker on a registered collective agreement, the ads that you paid for nonetheless proclaimed that "Workers on AWAs currently earn 13% more (!) than workers on certified agreements." This mathematical mayhem caused Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to kick off their world tour early, joining resident bard David Peetz to proclaim "We can't get no Satisfaction" from Minister Kevin Andrews' inability to use his fingers and toes correctly when asked to compare two numbers...
SIMPLE SUBTRACTIONS
I can't get simple subtraction
I can't do those tricky fractions
Cause I've tried, and I've tried
And I've tried, and I've tried
I can't get no, I can't get no
When I'm driving in my car
And there's Combet on the radio
He's telling us more and more
Of some deadly information
'Bout the impact on the nation
I can't get no, oh no no no,
Hey hey hey, that's what I say
I can't get no straight subtraction
Though I've tried to make distractions
Yes I've tried, and I've tried
And I've tried, and I've tried
I can't get no, I can't get no
When I'm watchin' my TV
And someone comes on to tell me
How wrong my sums have been
But he shouldn't be there, 'cause he doesn't belong
To the same party as me
I can't get no, oh no no no
Hey hey hey, that's what I say
I can't get simple subtraction
There's too much dissatisfaction
Cause I've tried, and I've tried
And I've lied, and I've lied
I can't no, I can't get no
I can't get no straight subtraction,
There's bad reactions, they want retractions, it's getting fractious...
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