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Attention Wal​-​mart Shoppers

from My Kingdom for a Song by mike skliar

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This was co written by my friend Patrick Madden and myself as a bit o consciousness-raising political protest.

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There's a dog fight down at Wal-Mart for all to see
The job creators finding out who'll work for less
Is it the flat broke retiree with a disability?
Or the widowed mom with three kids and the Goodwill dress?

And the winner gets to scrape by for seven bucks an hour
And the loser learns the lessons of economic defeat
For both life has gone sour cause they don't have the power
You know the poor will work for less when they've got nothing to eat

You read it on every right wings manifesto page
You'll only hurt the poor if you raise the minimum wage
But the profits have gotten larger look where it all went
While the stock prices climb and the money flows to the top half percent

Working minimum wage you’re still below the poverty line
And several million miles from the middle class
In real money in these times, that wage’s value has declined
While the pay has quadrupled to the very top brass


So when you go to Wal-Mart for something cheap to buy
Make sure you look the cashier straight in the eye
She works her ass off for starvation pay
And the ten cents you save will keep it that way

There's a dog fight down at Wal-Mart for all to see
The job creators finding out who'll work for less
Is it the flat broke retiree with a disability?
Or the widowed mom with three kids and the Goodwill dress?

© P. Madden and M. Skliar 2013

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from My Kingdom for a Song, released March 3, 2013

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