Credit card misuse A popular confusion The Maquiladora Superbrand A transnational intrusion Sweatshops in a free trade zone Shantytown profusion The splendor of the spender A conspicuous illusion
The marketing of cool In bedazzling proportions The rule against smiling One of prosperity's misfortunes The stodgy homeland censor Cleans our dirty laundry He speaks in elegant deletions With advice for every quandary
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The Christmas advertiser Accommodates the miser A charity extortioner Pampers his subscribers
Profligates conceal party faces From their salary revisers A contest for the unemployed Stirs obsolescent prizers
Velvet pickings lure the trader Gossip lulls the masses An average Joe Millionaire Moves beyond the toiling classes Toward the wholesale cornucopia A billionaire amasses
An immortal name and number Spurning peace and slumber Avarice, dear friend Entrusts the unencumbered
