Aus-Rotten - The Dying and the Dead lyrics

Thiry thousand auto workers have gone
To work to find
That they've been downsized form the
Assembly to the unemployment line
The employed seeking job security content
With what employers give
Thinning out the job market
Keeps the workers competitive

The upper one percent receive the tax breaks
Social program cut's commence
Educational funds take a back
Seat to America's defense
These education cuts are an investment
In the prison industry
An occupational restructuring towards a
Slave labor economy
The chance of survival on
Death row disappears
Their right to appeal is deprived
Worker strength and solidarity depletes
With union officials bribed
Raising taxes to build sports stadiums
While the homeless are ignored
Refusing to supply the health care
Benefit's most people can't afford
The newly founded citizen review boards'
Members are all police
The gap widens between the cost of
Living and the inflation increase

Those in power own the media machine
It's the vehicle to their views
They bury all of their corruption
Under fluff reported news
They bombard us with statistics
To influence public opinion
The more ridiculous the lie the
More people seem to listen
It's the people with no
Money that are responsible
For the rest of us being poor
We'll just eliminate the welfare system
To even up the score
Our conditions never imporve no matter
How many programs we stop
The money always seems to circulate back
To the people at the top

The occasionl whining criticisms keep
The public satisfied
The rest are busy escaping reality
With drugs the CIA supplied

It's always the most oppressed who
Easily fall victim to ignorance
Even with all that they've been
Through they still pledge allegiance
To their country and flag that has
Caused all of their grievous pain
Patriotism leads to natonalism which in
Turn proceeds to fascism

Poor and working class people are the
Tools of sick corporate perseverance
Shit on little puppets exploited in
The trials of human dominance
But still the pride goes on blindly
And in so-called freedom they gloat
Waving the flag but cursing
The politicians they
Think they elect when they vote

Welfare Recipients aus-Rotten
The Promise Keepers aus-Rotten
The System Works for Them aus-Rotten

Behind the trails of our peacekeepers lie
The dying and the dead
There are millions of starving chilren that
Are waiting to be fed
Because executive orders demand that
Economic sanctions are applied
If they'd have bowed down to our pressure
Relief may have just arrived
As the worlds only super power
We rule without regret
We don't let these children survive and
Grow up to be a threat

Love of this country is based on nothing
But the fear of living somewhere worse
And gratitude shouldn't be the reaction to
Someone else being slaughtered first