Someone Needs to Throw a Punch

Modern ghost towns now are cities,

Thousands of houses falling down…

Once homes of the rising middle class

Now in abandoned factory towns.

The depression baffles congressmen

This growth of poverty, shore to shore…

Is simply the fact the union men

Have no income to share anymore.

They don’t pay for clarinet lessons,

Can’t afford a brand new car…

Even the farmers are not supported,

Food stamp allotments don’t go far.

The corporate government’s solution,

Is to freeze the minimum wage…

Tricking the young to be soldiers,

Securing the locks on the worker’s cage.