Despite the wage stagnation the economy still has the illusion of growth
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Because people are now deeper in debt, spending more than what they¡¯re worth
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Working more jobs and hours for less pay in an effort to get by
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Enticed with the buy now, pay later pitfall you gladly just comply
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Maxing out on credit cards burying yourselves deeper in debt
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Owing thousands of dollars to creditors you haven¡¯t worked for yet
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Our credit enables you to purchase instant gratification
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And material possessions alleviate feelings of indignation
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You¡¯ll spend your entire life trying to escape from our economic cage
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Living off of unemployment or trying to survive on a starvation wage
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We¡¯ll gladly pay for your education encouraging careers
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Then we¡¯ll capitalize on the interest you¡¯ll be paying for twenty years
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We¡¯ve gone through all of the trouble of trapping you in jobs with pay reduced
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And if after all of our efforts you¡¯re still reluctant to produce
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We¡¯ll take your job security elsewhere, we¡¯ll ship it overseas
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Where people will happily line up to do whatever we please
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They¡¯ll work for practically nothing and never threaten us with strikes
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So stay in line or your place of employment will be your former company site
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We¡¯ve lobbied for all of this leverage that we hold above your head
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We¡¯d rather not pay the worker so we¡¯ll pay the politicians instead
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Who in turn push through the ¡°trade laws¡± under a mask of America ¡¯s best interest
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Cutting out the work force due to corporate reassessment
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With no worldwide exploitation laws the world is for the taking
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Our CEO¡¯s are making billions off the products that the workers are making
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Are you tired of working for nothing?
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Are you tired of working just to get by?
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Are you tired of working to line others pockets, so they can get rich while you barely survive?
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By making slave labor more accessible to the American corporations
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We don¡¯t have to worry about health benefits or safety regulations
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NAFTA was the biggest scam we ever sold to the American public
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Convincing all of you suckers that it really was for your benefit
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The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and you always wonder why
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As you pay for your oppression with every product that you buy
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We refuse to pay the world a living wage, the companies wouldn¡¯t collapse
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But you¡¯d simply gain a little ground in the growing wealth gap
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The boss who rides you everyday, is also the one who signs your pay
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Do you stay and deal with all the shit or quit and find another way
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To feed your family, keep them warm and make the best with what you get
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Let them threaten you with loss of job and be thankful that it hasn¡¯t happened yet
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The Growing Wealth Gap
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