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United States, bought and soldFolks sleeping out on the streets of goldWorking family debt piles highEconomic homicideClose the shelter, close the schoolBuild condos for the lucky fewInflate that real estate balloonRe-build the city for silver spoonsThey need a new hotelThey need a new convention centerAnd a stadiumUnelected suit and tiesIn the era of free enterpriseMaking record-profits from the finance boomWith the gold tax-payer parachutesThrowing money around the globeKnocking countries over with the heavy loadShock therapy, troops and tricksPredatory economicsIt's 2008And we're racing down to the bottomSongtexteOne trillion dollar bail-out dealThrow it all on the roulette wheelIn unrestricted greed we trustCome the bust, this country's fuckedBail out the bankers, not the single momsTake loans from China to pay for the bombsGive the rich bankers the bail-out fundsIt'll trickle-down like sewage doesIt's 2008And we're racing down to the bottomThe world's greatest debtor nationGot the planet locked in debt repaymentsProsecuting petty thievesWhile their companies do it all legallyThe first world elite's imperial dreamsMade the third world through investment schemesNow they're starving in a world of foodIt's no mistake it's an attitudeIt's 2008And we're racing down to the bottom Aus Songtexte Mania