House of Paine

Why we're always over there

why has 
corporate america 
got us  over there?

 not to  buy and  sell goods
 that's trade 
our troops are over there 
cause 
the big and easy profit prospects
 are
 over there  

and that's why we’ve
been living under 
 a national security state 
and forcing lots of other folks 
to live under threat 
of every flavor of 
 hyper power  terror treats 
from 
carpet bombing
to house to house
strip  searches 

I GUESS IT'S NO NEWS TO YOU 

WE’RE not 
RUNNING 
a  PEACIBLE 
democratic republic
AROUND HERE 



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WHY ?

the basics tell all 

and theres nothing complex here 

 we used to trade
 now we invest 

SHIT 

 for nations to  trade 
with nations 
 WHAT DOES THAT TAKE 
a willing 
 pair of  markets
throw in safe passage between them 
and some text book panglosianna 
 called comparative advantage 
and what do ya know 
there’s always something 
on both sides worth the swap 

it's voluntary it's easy 
and it's  mutually beneficial 
 
left alone 
trade happens 
all by itself 
call it  
spontaneous generation 

(of course trade is  
 never left alone 
but thats another post) 

simple 
long as you don't give credit 

as long as you stick to the rule    
in god we trust 
everyone else pays cash 

but loosen that up 
allow yourself to give credit  
and 
here's where 
 the rubsky comes in 

go beyond trade 
 give credit
or buy foreign  companies 
or foreign mineral rights
build foreign railroads  
or foreign this or foreign that 
and you ‘re going to need 
 gunboats 
and  armed  landing parties 
faster then  crabs
bite a pink crotch 
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yes 
trade happens of itself 

and accordingly 

 for 110 years in time of peace 

America the trader 
the pure and simple trader 

 got by with  small s security 
 and her majesty'a navy 

we had  talk about 
a big navy of our own 
 to protect our trading lanes
from euro bullies 

 the builders of ships 
and the merchants themselves 
 had visions of such high doings 

they saw old europe's hog fests 
and wanted their own trough 
but that's it
 VISIONS no action 
 for 
100 years until 1881 or so

fuck we had a frontier
 to steel track and strip bare 
a frontier as big as Most Empires 
 
so 
  we got big railrads 
but 
no big navy 


then suddenly 
  all that big navy
 hugger mugger
 comes out 
one fine morning 

 in a new tight top 
and
cinched waist

and 
baby 
she  hit us 
like ten tons of perpetual 
 erection  

all we  needed was someone 
to blow up   the Maine 
 
and the hugger mugger turned 
into a
 GREAT WHITE FRENZY 

 in a flash we  had 
our own  toy empire 
to play with 

 and well 
the rest is wall street 

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 fast forward thru all this 
from 1898 
to 1946

 thru a spate of dirty little 
banana wars 
and 
 two great ones 
 
and arrive at 1946

   and here we are 
 
 CAPTAIN AMERICA
 
liberator to the world 

 crusader for 
FREEDOM
AND FORTUNE 

now trying out for
every single   Mr Issimo part 
on the planet 

AND since then 
 guess what 

we’ve 
  
 won  all
 THE  ISSIMO  PARTS
 
 and the worlds our oyster l 
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