The working class through the nose pay <br />For rising prices prices every day <br />Their savings diminished bit by bit <br />Need a consumer's advocate <br /> <br />The dollar now is worth a cent <br />It's sunk as low as drowned cement <br />The cost of butter has gone sky high <br />So now their toast is eaten dry <br /> <br />How do parents explain to kids <br />Why their goodies they must forbid <br />Children of our once proud nation <br />Can't quite reckon this thing, inflation <br /> <br />Whatever happened to the American scheme <br />Of working hard for the American dream <br />To the working guy who's missed the boat <br />The American dream now seems remote<br /><br />Stanley Cooper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-american-dream/
