[alecqss]

James Lileks, the bard of Minnesota, once offered this trenchant analysis of Pete Seeger:
‘If I Had A Hammer’? Well, what’s stopping you? Go to the hardware store; they’re about a buck-ninety, tops.
Mark Steyn quoting Lileks - love it!

"Buck-ninety" - that's the whole problem, they want hammer for free, just to "have it" miraculously.

[Zman516]

"Buck-ninety" - that's the whole problem, they want hammer for free, just to "have it" miraculously.

True. But since communists are forbidden to actually "own" anything, said hammer would have to be property of the State.

Pete was probably waiting in a line at a commie hammer store (without hammers, as usual) when he composed the song.