The Big Crunch

©RichardBarnabé2012, revised 2018

 

Threatened by income polarization

The middle class fears obliteration

Politicians respond with bromides

Any ploy to lure voters to their side

 

Agents of the financial markets

Concentrate upon lining their pockets

Union leaders fret about their powers

Does anyone care about real workers

 

We can all feel the crunch

We know there’s no free lunch

Can’t escape the hard facts

High time to clean up our act

 

Corporations love globalization

Convenient escape from regulations

Few needs for social considerations

Transfer pricing to deal with taxation

 

Unless they need you working right next door

You may find your job being shipped offshore

Shrinking benefits for the working mass

For CEO’s, everything first class

 

We can all feel the crunch

We know there’s no free lunch

Can’t escape the hard facts

High time to clean up our act

 

We all incurred far too much debt

Perhaps gave prosperity the kiss of death

We never applied Keynes on the upside

For rainy days didn’t put enough aside

 

Trade balances are seen as off kilter

Some countries want to close their borders

We can’t remain paralysed by fear

Let’s blaze a trail to get us in the clear

 

Yes we can beat the crunch

Throw a real counter punch

Let’s agree to a pact

That we shall clean up our act

 

Let’s aim for better wealth distribution

But we must embrace with strong conviction

Productivity and innovation

As key components of the solution

 

Productivity and innovation

As key components of the solution