Where have all the money gone? Ministers have stolen them every coin

 Remembering the song Pete Seeger's lyrics 'Where have all the flowers gone?' how war and suffering can be cyclical in nature: girls pick flowers, men pick girls, men go to war and fill graves with their dead which get covered with flowers.

The same cyclical nature speaks today in a new verse ' Where have all the money gone? Ministers have stolen them, every coin'


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