Thiry thousand auto workers have gone to work to find
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That they've been downsized form the assembly to the unemployment line
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The employed seeking job security content with what employers give
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Thinning out the job market keeps the workers competitive
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The upper one percent receive the tax breaks, social program cut's commence
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Educational funds take a back seat to America's defense
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These education cuts are an investment in the prison industry
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An occupational restructuring towards a slave labor economy
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The chance of survival on death row disappears,theirright to appeal is deprived
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Worker strength and solidarity depletes with union officials bribed
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Raising taxes to build sports stadiums while the homeless are ignored
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Refusing to supply the health care benefits most people can't afford
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The newly founded citizen review boards' members are all police
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The gap widens between the cost of living and the inflation increase
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Those in power own the media machine it's the vehicle to their views
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They bury all of their corruption under fluff reported news
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They bombard us with statistics to influence public opinion
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The more ridiculous the lie the more people seem to listen
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It's the people with no money that are responsible for the rest of us being poor
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We'll just eliminate the welfare system to even up the score
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Our conditions never imporve no matter how many programs we stop
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The money always seems to circulate back to the people at the top
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The occasionl whining criticisms keep the public satisfied
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The rest are busy escaping reality with drugs the CIA supplied
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It's always the most oppressed who easily fall victim to ignorance
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Even with all that they've been through they still pledge allegiance
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To their country and flag that has caused all of their grievous pain
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Patriotism leads to natonalism which in turn proceeds to fascism
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Poor and working class people are the tools of sick corporate perseverance
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Shit on little puppets exploited in the trials of human dominance
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But still the pride goes on blindly and in so-called freedom they gloat
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Waving the flag but cursing the politicians they think they elect when they vote
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Behind the trails of our peacekeepers lie the dying and the dead
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There are millions of starving chilren that are waiting to be fed
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Because executive orders demand that economic sanctions are applied
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If they'd have bowed down to our pressure, relief may have just arrived
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As the worlds only super power we rule without regret
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We don't let these children survive and grow up to be a threat
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Love of this country is based on nothing but the fear of living somewhere worse
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And gratitude shouldn't be the reaction to someone else being slaughtered first
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The Dying And The Dead
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