Elites will always have their way,
What with leadership or talent
Meritocracy, Confucianism
Asian values, giving good account
Of themselves and always looking good,
Never short of ideas like how to sway
Elites always have their way,
How to charge double on lands
Citizens already owned,
On roads that citizens paved,
Only to build 30 years' reserves,
And claim leadership and talent,
To justify their highest pays,
Then came Asian crisis, Asset collapses,
Despite Deepened recessions, and endless problems,
Endless double and triple charges,
Seem to be the rule of the day,
Businesses cannot survive,
Citizens out of jobs and sicken without pay,
Thousands of educated unemployed,
Put the elites to their true test,
Sorry to say that elites fall flat without an idea
How to save the day,
Except to push away every problem,
Blame them on peasants for lack of training,
Or paying peanut that gets the monkey,
Leaving the citizens fuming mad,
In the NKF case especially over the CEO highest pay,
That is how the elites fare,
Get themselves all the reserve and highest pay,
That ceremoniously hold sway for another day.
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