Behind Enemy Lines - The Growing Wealth Gap lyrics

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Despite the wage stagnation the economy still has the illusion of growth

Because people are now deeper in debt,

spending more than what they're worth

Working more jobs and hours for less pay in an effort to get by

Enticed with the buy now, pay later pitfall you gladly just comply

Maxing out on credit cards burying yourselves deeper in debt

Owing thousands of dollars to creditors you haven't worked for yet

Our credit enables you to purchase instant gratification

And material possessions alleviate feelings of indignation

You'll spend your entire life trying to escape from our economic cage

Living off of unemployment or trying to survive on a starvation wage

We'll gladly pay for your education encouraging careers

Then we'll capitalize on the interest you'll be paying for twenty years

We've gone through all of the trouble of trapping you

in jobs with pay reduced

And if after all of our efforts you're still reluctant to produce

We'll take your job security elsewhere, we'll ship it overseas

Where people will happily line up to do whatever we please

They'll work for practically nothing and never threaten us with strikes

So stay in line or your place of employment will be

your former company site

We've lobbied for all of this leverage that we hold above your head

We'd rather not pay the worker so we'll pay the politicians instead

Who in turn push through the â#128##156#trade lawsâ#128##157#

under a mask of America 's best interest

Cutting out the work force due to corporate reassessment

With no worldwide exploitation laws the world is for the taking

Our CEO's are making billions off the products that the workers are making

Are you tired of working for nothing?

Are you tired of working just to get by?

Are you tired of working to line others pockets,

so they can get rich while you barely survive?

By making slave labor more accessible to the American corporations

We don't have to worry about health benefits or safety regulations

NAFTA was the biggest scam we ever sold to the American public

Convincing all of you suckers that it really was for your benefit

The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and you always wonder why

As you pay for your oppression with every product that you buy

We refuse to pay the world a living wage, the companies wouldn't collapse

But you'd simply gain a little ground in the growing wealth gap

The boss who rides you everyday, is also the one who signs your pay

Do you stay and deal with all the shit or quit and find another way

To feed your family, keep them warm and make the best with what you get

Let them threaten you with loss of job and be thankful

that it hasn't happened yet