"There ain't no money in poetry.  That's what sets the poet free.
I've had all the freedom I can stand."
Guy Clark, Cold Dog Soup

In the beginning, there was the stretch for yield that led to subprime, best described in a Japanese Haiku:

If regular loans
Don't earn enough to suit us
Maybe bad loans will.

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Finding my way
To the NCPA

Thinking part time
For part-time pay

But my little plan has one big flaw
It fails to account for Parkinson's Law

It's sometimes hard to pay your dues
When you spend your time waiting for the muse

But one big advantage is important to me
A location outside of Washington, D. C.

Its traditions are richest outside my field
But that just gives me more room to build

Medicine, social security and other pensions
Have received John's main attentions

Aligning incentives for health care users
Removing incentives for potential abusers

Helping the customers of the health care industry
Avoid Hillary's health care ministry

Creating Health Savings Accounts
In increasing amounts

It's alledged

Making payers of users
Avoiding a third-party wedge

Making the patient and payor one and the same
Removing moral hazard from the health-care game

Sounding the alarm on social security
Offering solutions closer to purity

Promoting personal accounts with a higher gain
Giving their owners some skin in the game

Designing and promoting Roth IRAs
Following up with Roth 401Ks

Helping employers give their workers more clout
By changing opt in provisions to opt out

Working for taxes, lower and flatter
Making the supply side really matter

Lowering tax rates with no revenue crunch
Is as close as it gets to the proverbial free lunch

Keeping the capital in capitalism, we have a hunch
Means taxing it less and only once.

Nearly 25 years of private sector solutions
Now is no time to permit dilutions

So, come to our aide, help us contend
We depend entirely on the help of our friends