The World Bank (Live)
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[Verse 1] The third world is plagued by poverty and the World Bank is the cause It's an instrument of transnational companies to overrule domestic laws Serving merely as a weapon for American foreign policy leverage Starvation is considered an effective repayment incentive The initiating step in US planned destabilization Is extorting money by economic manipulation With World Bank interference, development is prevented Their actions differ greatly from the compassionate image projected [Chorus] Restructuring the world economy is the World Bank and the IMF Benefitting the richest countries while developing nations are bled to death [Verse 2] The third world is descended so deeply into debt that their economies can't function The demand for outrageous interest forces these countries to increase production Ecuador is forced to produce more oil to repay all its debt This strain upon the ecosystem's an environmental threat Rainforests have been ravished for iron smelting in Brazil Ten million people have been forced from the lands the World Bank steals While structural adjustment programs have pushed Peru into poverty Many African nations suffer from extreme austerity [Chorus] Restructuring the world economy is the World Bank and the IMF Benefitting the richest countries while developing nations are bled to death [Verse 3] Establishing puppet dictators whose actions are devastating The world economists line their pockets with the regimes that they're creating They're the power watchdog security guarding where first world interests lie They've sold their farmlands to cash crop companies and let their populations die They slash and burn the rainforests or build another dam They systematically drive the indigenous people off their land They've paved the way for industry to legally seize resources By imposing the political policies their leashed tyrant enforces [Chorus] Restructuring the world economy is the World Bank and the IMF Benefitting the richest countries while developing nations are bled to death
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- Dave Trenga