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The gap keeps getting bigger.

he rich ad poor on opposite sides of the world

The poor are too lazy to get off their behinds,

They are having children like chickens

 

The rich are working and the poor are eating

They cannot read or write their names

But they want all the good things in life

 

We spend 14 years in school,

And we come out to no jobs

Because Uncle Sam is taking care of

some people, and we are in debt.

We need jobs, we need a means to live, 

we earned it.

 

For the people, of the people, by the people

it is not for some people

Give us a reason to smile and be happy again.

 

 

 
 
 
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