Full Employment?

China and India now handle
Our clerical jobs and production
Resulting in our skilled
Labor force reduction
And Republicans claim
With great enjoyment
That our country
Has full employment,
But the former
Highly paid labor force
Is a new minimum wage
Sales clerk source,
Thus, Walmart gets its perks,
The supermarkets get their clerks
And others work as soda jerks
In a land where only
The rich and poor can last
While the middle class
Perishes fast.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2006 Alfred Charasz