October 19, 2003

private rippers 1


defined screwing 

private rippers
public plunder 


FRINGE FUCK 
part TWELVE
 
the Dodo’s Dodo

 corporate
defined benefit 
pension scams 




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SURE IVE BEEN AT THIS A WHILE HERE 
 BUT 
want to watch 
a flock of 
 flightless fowl 
go thru the processor?

 check out
private
defined benefit 
  pension plans 


 if like me 
the smell
of  mass 
 extinctions 
GETS YOU SOLID 

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I think all this
fringe fucking’s
 worth a post or two 
more

cause brothers and sisters 
these  gonzo bird’s  carcasses
 are really  starting
 to stink up the place


 
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today 
i think 
we might try 
 swimming thru 
 the mud beclouded
undersea
 demimonde 
of 
korporate 
defined benefit plans
in a little detail


facto one 

thanx to the bubble burst
back there a couple years now 
today 
as i/ve yammered be4

the real play in
defined pensions 
is  strictly 
Uncle
 come 
 bail my boat 

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the bailer’s 
 got a name too
 
the Pension Guarantee Corporation
 or something like that 

its Uncle's
mandated rescue outfit
when 
 private  corporations'
pension obligations 
 thru no fault of management
or thru total fault of management 
 suddenly
 start lookin  
 ass end up  
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when 
as a for instance

say 
some wayward profiteer 
outfit
after “  fond goodbye roast ”
scamper off 
leaving
 their     pensioneers
 and potential pensioneers
stranded at or near
 careers' end 
  hanging 
with no one
 to keep the promised flow 
of payments comin
 their way 

well then 
bing !!!

 here comes
 Uncle samuel 

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the back story here
is the usual tower boy bank shot 
bounce off the courts
 and drop the object ball 
in uncle's pocket 
 keep it up till   
all  or  enough of all
their real employee
obligations
are off the table

 and then
" gentlemen lets restart the motors"

get it 
  a promise shuck 

get the shit off the books 
thru
one recast
 or 
legal outfit morph
 or
 maybe 
 a very 
specially created  suicide setup  

just go ahead and 
throw the old bags of shit in there  
 
get the gist ? 

make old uncle 
buy everyone caught inside 
one of these rigged up gizmos 
a one way ticket to
the pet cemetery 
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then again enter Uncle 
has its saving graces too

i mean for the tower toddlers of course

thank god 
there are a zillion doorways 
with uncle on the otherside of em 

the pride of the old socialized markets  
corporately speaking
 
  Uncle like the holy ghost 
 everywhere 
ready and able to
hold a barff bag for
the dark  towers'
 each and every   puke out   


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even more back fill


the bigs were far sighted here 
in the benefit defining game 

from way back 
thirty years even 
they saw it all 
clear as glass puppies 

1974 or so 
this super fund of uncle’s 
went into effect
and god love the fucker 
its  been there 
ever since 
day and night 
ready to  kick in
when some 
corporate pygmy
decides or
 has it decided
 for him 

that
"  well  hoss
   guess 
 it's time 
to   give it all up" 
 


hey hey

think its a big joke ?

listen up here
Manual
 show some respect 
you  may need to kiss this
 fund's ass 
yourself some day 
 
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ok fine 
uncles on the job 
ready to roger 
but 
 as the gal sez 

" sure mister  
but are ya  big enough ?"

good question 

can uncle's fund 
cover all the action ?

same old aria isn’t it 

no matter 
which one of Uncle’s pockets
 you  look into 

there's  
 some fucking tiny 
 green eye shaded
 guy  screaming 
at the top of his pipes

“ that fund's goin bust
watch out that fund's
 goin bust ”

yep folks
 this one too 

they ‘re screamin it 

 “dangerously low 
a little more bed shitting 
by the corporate dandys 
 and .............”

I remember reading 
 a number like 7 bills left
inside 
and a potential exposure of 250 bills 


well who knows

and frankly  
who cares 

the hackademic Panglossians et al 
 hate like hell to admit this 
but 
AS A PRACTICAL MATTER 
uncle can borrow 
his way out of ANYTHING 

look at the S& L scuffle 

you saw numbers flying around there
in the  gobble gobble press
 like 800 bills 

qwack qwack qwack 

ended up costing 
 after all was said and done 
what maybe 
100 Bills 

CHICKEN FEED

sports fans 
uncle needn’t blink 

pure 
chicken  feed 

the lib fairies
always always
always 
just can’t get enough 
of  waving their arms on high
 and dance down low 
about this 
 but believe old pinkadink
 on this one 

it always  pays 
to over play your hand
where uncle's concerned 
 
so  don’t sweat 
and please please
try to 
keep your shirt on

 korporate meister
would love to panic you 
into a rush thru door number three 
 the one marked
self reliance 

hold your water folks 
there's other doors 
way better for all of us to go thru 
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so worse case 

SAY IT DOES BLOW 
 I SAY 
 HO HUM 

uncle will refund it 
he funded it he’ll 
refund it 
no private plans left to pinch it from
he’ll just issue  some t bills 

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actually i wish a blow out
 would scorch 
a few of you
suplicaters  out there 

it would 
serve you bums right


if you were 
STUPID AND UNLUKY ENOUGH 
TO GET CAUGHT OUT 
BY an okay doaky corporate flim flam 
 i say too fucking bad  

after all 
who can feel sorry
 for some nubbly knuckled old soak 
  who can’t hold a job 
anymore anyway 

where's
 the fast flowing away 
 ice cake 
when ya need one 

face facts bozo 
to the rest of us 
you’re  fucking scrap 
 
and let me advize you here 
if you're not
right now 
making a  pit stop
 if you're not really trying 
to get
 yourself rerigged
for another run down the job ramp
then 
take the gas pipe pal
we can use the supplies 

you’re dead weight 
 so 
box yourself
and  pronto 
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neeexxxxxxxxtttttttt !
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ps 
ok ok ok ok 
that comes off a little cold 
  
but 
I mean really 
who cares
or at least who should care 

I bet guys boo hooing about
a pension welsh 
prolly can’t 
 piss standing up either 

tough luck 
so you got screwed 

we all do eventually 
that's gods plan 

next life 
pick a better boss 

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 glad thats out of the way 
now 
 aside from 
displaying 
my crisp and sleek 
lack of compassion 

here's what interests me 

IT WAS ALL
IN THE FINE PRINT FROM 
DAY ONE  
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dropping the burden of their promises 
 all 
 on uncle 
i mean 

dropping it 
on  ole Sam’s  head

from the beginning 

seen
like i said 
 clear as glass 

by board room  rooks 
everywhere 

lost the thread here ?

ok i’ll go slow 


scene one 

anywhere you’d like to be 
in 
lower  manhattan 
its 
circa 1972

korporate 
tower boys are  in conclave 
working
 on the double over
 reflexive level
i.e.  
 game plans
 for
game plans 

having waited his turn 
one fat young shit sez
“ what if 
per  chance 
we all get to
 a  4th and long
some day

you know
what if 
 some day 

 down the road 

what if 
 all these
 stacks and stacks of
 I PROMISE
 YOU DUBS 
this
 and
 i promise 
you dubs
  that

what if they all  
start to creak 
the floor boards 
i mean really creak em
like pre busto creak em

you know 
what if some day 
 WE NEED TO 
to to to 
UNPROMISE THEM dubs 
all these promises 
to keep from falling thru the floor 
 
YOU KNOW 
WHAT IF WE NEED
 TO PUNT the PROMISES
DOWN FIELD  ”

then 
mr Big's 
top ass wipe 
 suited to a T
and chucklingly 
oh so ready
 with a 
 quick and obvious retort 
sez  
  “ dimples for god sake
have you not heard 
of the new deal revolution
 
my dear fellow 
please think here 

these dubs you mention
why they have a friend 
down in the district
of columbia these days 

  this isn't
 silent Cals  america anymore  

today
 its elementary 

we over play our hand 
 get ourselves in a pinch  

WE JUST  CALL IN 
OLD  UNCLE SAMBO 

HELL FIRE 
UNC’S OUR GUY
DIMPLES

 HE ALWAYS CARRIES OUT 
the HEAVY trunks for us

DON’T HE  BOYS ”
 
LAFFS ALL AROUND

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 and as luck and MEPHISTO
would have it 
all these years later 
when the market popped 
in 01 
time had come around full

IT IS INDEED 4TH AND LONG 
all over corporate amerika 

AND TIME TO PUNT 
 
and punt they all have 

or soon will 

punt  on all their fucking
fool hardy light headed 
 promises 

promises 
they signed on to 
way back when  

“ well nothing's for ever boys
and these 
  wind mills 
 kep' em cool
thru a few bumps didn’t ithey"
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ponzi on gents ponzi on

long be4 01 they knew 
where it would end but anyway..

take a jump
 BACK AGAIN

this time 
only as far as 1990  or so 

board room chatter simmers down

" OK guys
    ok ok 
so what's the loud music for
 i say 
so what 

so fucking what 
promises promises whos counting
till its cash 
so what if a few  bene rafts
 are drifting towards the falls 
thats what uncle and his funds for 

lets move on
 boys 
to more  important things  
 we gotta 
 get cracking 
keep adding new tiers to the tower 

get me ?

 come up with  a few new 
  floats each day
and 
big smeer if
 one our two sink 
long as we keep floatin more 


 aren’t you up for it ?
   
shit stuff like this
is  supposed to be 
the   specialty
 of the house
around here  isn’t it ” 

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ok so now's uncles turn

uncle and his fund 

lets hear the  tower guys again 

 1974 

“ perfect a fund a fucking federal fund 
no sweat  
long as we keep the pool rate low 
  no sense over filling the fuck

  so what if it runs dry some day 
 if and when it does
   the smart money gets
 to   blame
 the federal  bureaucrats ”
 
get it ?
make Uncle look like
the real  Welsher 

thats always  smart policy 
  cause uncle
 don’t give a shit anyway

why should he care
Uncle  knows he's safe 

why ?
cause
uncle's really 
 no body 
after all

 no body permanent
 anyway 
 
when it comes 
time to blame uncle 
it's always too late 
he's morphed 
into some other uncle 

new folks is
uncle by then 

" long as those
 taxable
wage  klowns 
 out there under us keep 
producing enough 
we can 
get it all 
borrowed
 on their credit anyhow" 

the great one waxes whistful
" ain't   this set up 
 beautiful gentlemen  

each one of them 
little wagered farts 
ain’t worth a kopek 
all alone 
but start put em 
 in 100 million units
and you got 
some serious borrowing capacity
 thru their  uncle's
 right of extraction

and boyz think

 it's all ours
 to lever 
our deals off 

any
fucking way we want 

aaahhhh

 glory be 

we kill em
 and then we
  bill em 

you gotta love 
those  frikkin donkeys 

no one of em 
really thinks he's  payin anything
specific
just everything in general ”

this gets  a round of 

laff laff laff 

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 (now i know this post 
is going well past A.D.D. limits here) 



but 

  tower titans demand 
to   get
a double pay out


first
get uncle to foot the bill 
and 
second 
blame the pointy heads 
down in the district 
for creating the problem 

sorta
 like  blaming 
THE GERMAN DEFEAT 
in the Great  War 
 on
 the Jewish
marxist home front 
 back stabbers 

see how well  that worked

at least 
iN the right QUARTERS 
( i e the lower middle quarters 
where the dickheads 
  hang out )

 lets hope in the end 
THIS BACK STAB MYTH
  spills
less blood 

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the fine print
 part 
ain’t  all folks 

there’s another shoe to drop 

now its 1983
and still now 
the defined screw private part
is humming along swell 

but  suddenly
god damn 
UNCLE'S OWN PENSION PLAN
SETS OFF AN ALARM BELL 

THE NEW DEAL GEM 
OUR NATIONAL TREASURE 
THE FUCKING 
 SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM 
IS IN TROUBLE 

WELL NOT RIGHT NOW 
BUT IT WILL BE  IN 2013

THAT IS   IT WILL BE 
IF WE DON’T STOP
JUST PAYING AS WE GO 
 
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what a master stroke of
 miss direction

just when
 it was way too obvious
TO ANY ONE 
THIS  SIDE 
 OF A BELLE VIEW TUXEDO 
 
that the private plans 
of corporate america
 had prolly  over promised their wagelings 
and 
that their own corporate pension and health plans 
were headed for serious trouble 
bam bam 
its not   these fucking
ponzi  dinosaurs
NOT
 these rigged up 
corporate pension plans
that get
 the spot light 

no sireee

the tower titans instead 
 manage 
to spark off  
 their double domed 
lick spiddle flunkys 
 down in wash town 

all of a sudden the pointy heads 
are in a frenzy 
of  fat finger pointing 
at the one 
sure bet
 safe pension plan 

all of a sudden 
the sky is falling 
just where it can't

the one plan 
that come hell or high water 
can keep its promises 

is in danger  of future default

FDR'S PLAN ?

Uncle Sams PLAN ?

 default ?

what a fucking joke 

christ Uncle 
default 
no fucking way 

he hasn’t defaulted
since Al Hamilton
rigged the redemption deal
 in 1791

Uncle’s  got tax power 

as i wrote earlier
the right of extraction

sure uncle could welsh 
but folks 
he won't 

( now 
 he could weasel
if he so chooses 
but thats another post ) 
 

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so why the false alarm 
from the wally boys stooges?

 why 
 the bum's rush ?
why 
 a blue ribbon panel ?
(including that prize
 gay tuna the original new demo 
Patrick butt pilot Moynihan) 

and most off 
why did they 
pushed thru 
a rate   hike
in the  payroll taxes
right then and there ?

well  here's
 the two balls in one 
man jack of it 

this hike 
took  wagelings
 earned dough
and used it to 
cover  cuts
in uncle's take
off  of  Richy Rich’s 
 unearned dough
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heres a stat 
for back ground 

1950 
corporate
profit  tax share
  33%
payroll tax share 10%

fifty years later  

corporate profits tax 
share 10 %

patyroll share 33%
 

  see this boys and girls 

       profit tax    wage tax
  50     33%         10% 

  99    10%         33%       
 
    thats fifty years of progress for ya 
           a little gig 
          i like to call
           TRICKLE DOWN TAXATION 
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well fellas 
didn’t it 
 keep
 the fiscal  deficit
from running into even 
higher   digits

and who knows
maybe the fast shuffle 
gave uncle just enough added hot air 
to blow down  
the evil empire’s 
 fortress of feathers 
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thusly was 
  one more 
 otherishly lovely 
and  bold chapter
  inked 
in the 50 year
   saga 
  now called 

“ the great burden shift ”

the shift of taxes 
 off the heroic shoulders 
of america's enterprising elite
and 
onto  
the sloping shoulders 
of the amorphic wage slobs 

and oh
SINCE ITS TODAYS TOPIC
 while you’re at it
 SHOW YOUR LEVERAGE ACTION
SHOW HOW YOU LEARNED HOW
TO MAKE THE NEW DEAL WORK FOR YOU

WATCH UZ  
throw OUR  pensions on 
 JOE AND ETHELS TAX TAB
 CREDIT LOCK 
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at any rate 
we got to stay focused
HERE  
cause I got
 a POLICY CHANGE 
TO RECOMMEND
 FOR YOYO CONTEMPLATION

THAT IS IF 
 YOU ARE UNABLE
 TO WATCH FOX NEWS  

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SET UP 

 for 20 plus years 
now 
we’ve heard
 how uncle
 LEFT TO HIS USUAL DEVICES 
will sure as hell 
blow his OWN 
retirement promise 
 some day 
RIGHT 

AND 
just so
 it don’t all seem like hot air 
 at irregular intervals
our ever fuck friendly
corporate occupation congress 
 whacks  wages
at a higher rate 
and ups the cut off point  
so we can get a sense of
 the far far bigger sting 
  to come

now remembering

 what i wrote here above 

here's our
answer scouts

"  fuck you 
fuck fuck 
you "

 " cut back our earners rate by 4 points 
and
since  its so fucking high now 
 up the cut off  limit to no limit "

next 
take the reserve fund
disolve it and distribute it 
 into special iras for all of us inpayers 
and do it  now 


i say 
  cut SSI back to pre 83 
and take it all out 
on the earners tax side 
not the employers payroll side

fuck the booby twins act 

from now fuck on 
basically 
we should pay in 
 as uncle pays out

 pay as we go
   not as we blow 

and while your up 

get the med tax 
the fuck 
out of the payeroll stream 
all together 

(but that too is another post)  
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ps 

remember
 the tower boys  story never changes

cause its working 

the fucking tax  burden 
keeps shifting 
from them to you 

for twenty years now 
its been the same 
 old  horror story 
 UNC TO WELSH
IN 2020

mean while 
corporate america has 
punted and punted and punted

yes madam 
the  real  welshers
never find the pillary awaiting them 

cause uncle's
taking on their fucking
 bilge for them 

 put it on  uncle's tab 
will you Ruggles


“ they’re billin you
for screwing you 
you nit wits ”


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Posted by pinky at October 19, 2003 05:23 PM

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