The Growing Wealth Gap Lyrics - Behind Enemy Lines

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 "trade laws" 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