Drive Down Wages

Another political poem, with the vague idea of creating a protest song.

The current squeeze on the low paid is becoming intolerable, with energy prices creating vast profits whilst more and more people are having to choose between eating or heating their homes. Government seem more interested in placating the donors that finance their party rather than caring for the populace. The fuel price increases affect everything else including food.

All material for a protest song.

Drive Down Wages

Drive down wages as the profits soar

Shareholder dividends are at the core

Funds to a government - their corporate whore

Mutual benefit, and they want more.

Shift blame to those whose lives are on the floor

Paid media outlets will take on this chore

Front page scapegoats we can all abhor

Distract the masses - glitz and glam galore.

If things get tight then blame a foreign war

Cut back on services already raw

Private consultancies will then ensure

Tax payer monies go to banks offshore.

When prices rise and rise and rise some more

When people starve because they're made too poor

We can't protest because it's 'gainst the law

Don't fret - be happy that the profits soar.