House of Paine

more klap a doom BS

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“ and yet 
every where ya look  Ralf 
seems some guy's
 workin hizself up into 
 a regular
 clap-a-doom frenzy 

 a   clap a dooooom
Ralfy boy 
a clap a doooooooooooooooom ”

    “ alright alright alright 
    norton 
I hear ya 
I hear ya ”



butfuck
HOW DID IT ALL
GET SO URGENT 

what's up ?



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 we’re told 
its all part of the great demographic 
hic up 
 the boomer gens  
retirement
party  
 planned for the middle 
of the next decade 

well lets look a little closer 

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cohorts cohorts cohorts 


as time marches on 
theres a constant 
reshaping of the cohort silhouette

say we got 113 cohorts

the raw tikes that came out last year 
all say 4 million of em 
form one end of the march line 

and 
the oldest gal in the 50 states
at 113 is the last guy standing of
the birth cohort of 1890 

she  forms 
 a solitary point man
  for the present 
earthly 
march by america the bountiful
 down times endless  
 hallway 



now 
the relative  size
 of each one of these cohorts 
 as one passes
the mind's eye 
 up the line 
  has a gentle wave like shape 

up there between say
cohort 42 
and cohort58
theres a bulge 

thanx to the truman birth boom 
and the ike baby  celebration 

there have been 
various check outs of course
 along the way 
sidedoor check outs
 so to speak
and on the other side 
thanx to border crossing 
     some check ins too 

but at any rate 
this bulge
betwixt c42 and c 58
 is the basis for all 
the buglin’
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the object of 
  all this scrutiny 
is
something revealed 
by this cohort silhouette 
something  called 
the  dependency ratio
 
the quantitative relationship
 between 
the young/the job aged/ and the old 

its a 
dependency 
ratio
 cause the  middle group
the job group 
" carries "
 the two sections
on either side of it 
  the non job groups

scare ?

what if the burden 
gets too heavy ?

---------------------------------


next decade we’re told 
its going to start
getting too heavy

that is 
 if we don’t make
 some changes
soon 

the front end of 
that bulge

now jobbled like hell
is actually only 
 8 short years 
 from retire age
 8 short years from 
flopping down 
 onto social security system

and as these old scrap heaps 
start piling up 
over the subsequent 16 years 
the dependency ratio
is slated
 to  shifting dangerously 

and guess what 
little polly 

 the danger is elsewhere too
in fact its
  lurking out ahead
to various degrees of gravity

in all the  advanced  societies
on earth
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 so  the dependency ratio thing
 looks big 
as it looms up towards 
  higher and higher  burden
  levels 
on the job forces of civilization

out there 
in the teens of this century
dependency ratios await uz all

dependency rates 
nasty enough to cause rebellion
 
and scouts this has  wonks
afrighted 
cause they’re
the shaft birds here 

 its wonks we pay   
to study
 these not so distant 
social motions

“ something
 and i mean
 something bigs
 got to give here 
and soon ”
they're tellin uz
and with  flushed faces 
and 
sticking
up neck hair

------------------l 

like so much else
that seemed to work so well
 for the 30 years 
between 1950 and 1980
and 
at least
more or less 
 kept on keeping on
for the last 20 or so 

like all the other
washington  plans 
for
average bears 

 like all our other 
     governmental 
tax   and transfer systems 
 
the wonks see
for  social security   
a dark  tunnel
at the end of this lightness

social security 
 a system that lifted
 2 generations 
of  working class americans 
out of old age destitution
 is now about to eat its own 
stomach
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 call it 
the ponzi factor 
the chain letter effect 
call it what you will
the nice part 
of the ride’s
almost over 

and thats been in the cards
 from day one 

what scares 
is the all  at once
 and every where
confoundedness of it all


fuck sailors 
 social democracy
worldwide is acting like
 an aging tap dancer
lookin into bypass surgery 
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well you may ask me 

whats really goin on here pinky ?


 its simple to understand
once you 
look behind
 the corporate curtain with me 

 see it ?
 in  one word

the profiteers are into 
 acceleration-exploitation mode
  
     translation

the man want ya ta sell im 
 mo hours
 mo hours
 mo hours 

after all sissy 
thats how he gets his blood 
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a little back ground 


focus if you will 
for a moment 
on the worldwide forces of enterprise 
 and  their  thirty year  war
 on  the advanced nations 
 wagelings 
  yes 
 thats right 
not world threes wagery
world ones wagery 
the bribed guyz
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the war 
 started
in 1971
when we yanks 
went off the gold dollar
and it  end the latest  phase 
with the wall street smasher of 2001

here are 
 their main objectives
 at the outset 
and 
their results
so far 

first  objective
stop  over paying the help 

result 
 done deal 

the tower titans
  actually  managed 
not only to stop the the century long
insanity of ever higher and higher 
 overpay
butfuck
 even better 
 for the bulk of wagelings
they’ve  managed
to cut
yes cut 
 first world
 wage rates

 in fact cut it 
so down to size
 wages now trail
their own  productivity 
by a growing margin
 
well done sports 

second objective
make em work
 longer 
make em work 
more hours
 in a week 
in a year 
in a life time 
i.e.
 start
 job working  younger 
and  
 end it later

results 
again done deal 

the 100 year 
down trend
 in hours
job sold per week 
 has been reversed

today 
as an example 
the ave job week
 is higher in poisonville
then it was in 1972 !


wagelings work longer job weeks
now then 
the year Nixon’s reelection 
saved decency from freedom
or was it freedom from decency ?

objectives
three and four 
are really 
 wonky wonk ones

you can skip them

I almost did 

but here they are
for the drunken and 
otherwise unabashed

three
the burns-miller-volcker act 

set off a  raging inflation 
and then after its done its dirty deeds
snuff it 

result
bingo 

the oil and gold spirals
a rerevved real estate and security world 
and by far the most important 
the whole rock and sock 
boobsy twin act 
 wide open imports
and right down the throat 
overthere investments

mission accomplished
all of it by 84

done done deal

objective 3 side action 

 while on this monetary bull ride 
make damn sure you 
bust and abuse the unions

hang  em out over the rails 
  let em bash agin all that 
the overseas stuff
comin in here at hurricane force 
drop em over the side and out the back 
knock em down 
and  
drag like hector

 drag em around troy
 like them good old boys
drug that darky around east texas 

result
the trades unions
got so bad ass  busted
 up
 every bone in their torsos 
 in 6's and 9's 

 shit much more 
and they'll be 
 a bag of slaw

“ fuck hole 
we drug em over  trade 
rocks so big and mean 
they bounced the membership  
higher’n kangaroos ”

objective four
  greenspan-rubin 

whilst damping 
 the inflation wave
of part three 
lower
 the structural rate of unemployment 
 
result belatedly 
done by late 90s 
too wonky even for wonks 
i guess 

lesson 
don’t believe your
press releases on
inflations nasty bite 
anymore then 
 ones on how fattening
fiscal  deficits are

 
theres more 
much more

LIKE
 INCREASE 
THE  25-65
 PARTICIPATION RATE
IE SUCK THE HOUSE WIVES
 OUT INTO THE JOB WORLD 


------------------------------------------------


suffice it to point out
when it comes to profits 
no matter how well
the kapshow 
dealers do their mechanics 
no matter 
whether the cards
come off 
the top middle or 
  bottom of the deck 
or up the sleeve 

no matter the precooking 
and post shifting 
no matter 
the endless spin out
 of bets on bets on bets 
the dog false  reshuffles and redeals 
the discards and mirrored look sees
 no matter how
complicated up 
they make  appearances

no matter how much 
they even surprise 
and confuse themselves
 
if its profit production your talking
not profit pocketing 

one simple process
creates all the pots
their pissing over 

hiring hours 

hiring
hours to be spent producing 
for wages 

wages that are less 
then the market price 
 of the  products produced 

its that simple
 
keep that  in your nose
and you can’t lose the stink 
no matter how they perfume 

couldn’t be easier
more hired  hours worked
more profits made

and like anything else
offered on markets

the more hired hours for sale 
the cheaper the selling price 


thats the real story

the whole kapshow
rests on grabbing
 more and more hours 
and paying
 as little as possible for them

the last 30 years 
have been 
a new morning
in the first world 
for these kap rudiments

the basics have 
reasserted  themselves

and in the process 
the old class dynamics 
have  broken too

 the cold war 
first world  class peace 
is today  smashed to pieces 

today 
the following laws of motion
are no
longer the stylized
klass  facts of our first world systems

and they looked
 like they were
 in 1972
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one 
 constant income shares
 between profit and work income 

ie constant rate of exploitation 

two
 wages rising as fast as productivity
  follows from one 

three
 profit rates remaining level 
     follows from constant wage /cap ratio 

four 
 work
week hours going down 

five 
THE “dependence ratio ”
 going slowly up 

( hear the sound  track 
 going 
  DEN DEN DEHHH )


five 
wagelings  entitlements going up 

six
 wealth distribution flattening

seven
 unions if not orging
an ever larger share
of the work force
 at least holding their own 
more or less


that was the kold war contract
or at least social dems and gliberal dems alike
could get away with claiming that was the contract 

until 
the tower kaps 
struck back 
unilaterally scrapping
the deal 
along about the 1970s

now after 30 years 
of pounding away 
that bargains
not only  history
its a dangerous fairy land
for wouldn’t it be nice types

don’t wish it back cause
thats like 

the dork what  sez
after a ride that by the end near killed him
“ well the first part
 was nice
 lets do it again 
for the first part ”

“ ass hole
 what about the second part
want another dose a that 
you can’t get off in the middle 
once you start off
you’re up for the full tour 
they got ya strapped in ”
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the essence 
of peaceful coexistence
 betwixt
wagelings and profiteers 
is now so clear 

its a fucking 
 silver winged
 fucking  illusion 
that flies you into a plate glass window 
 thicker then 
 your fucking head

sow it again
fellow critters 
 and again after a few good seasons
 you will reap poison ivy

one must be
square chinned here
and face the facts 

that gorgeous swedish blond
we call labor democracy 
like the CIO 
shes gone
 and not coming back 


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back to our thread 
every 
demographic 
trend line has  changed

now today and tomorrow 
 unlike the recent past 
 if you’re under 30 
and figure on 
 living off 
wage work alone 

the chattering classes are 
making your  path 
into retirement 
look like a  gauntlet 

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 enter
 Doc Kapshow 


and heres his RX
straight off 
 wall street

“ patented ”



 “ yes boys and gals
  I’ll tell ya the secret 
for free 
I’ll tell ya 
whats best for ya 
try it 
and see what comes of it 
you’ll look back 
and smile from ear to ear 
just try one thing thats all 
try working more hours
more hours
 on the job now 
and
figure on houring
 well into
 your active and productive 70s
do it and you’ll die smilin ”
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after a swallow of water
doc recommences

“ for  christ sake 
whatever else
 you do or don’t do 
please kids 
take responsibility 
for your selves
 
don’t end up like 
your GD parents 

what an ever lovin 
  bunch of babies
those boomers are

 am I right guys 
sure I am
course I’m right 
you know it and 
I know it 
and 
the whole  world
 knows it 

 don’t pull down this country 
like they have 
 don’t
 wreck our institutions 
like they have 
don’t look down on
an honest days work 
they way they tried to 
don’t swamp the ship
don’t bash the corporations
like they have 
or at least used to 
before they  came crawling back 
to us
 and  to their senses ”
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another swig 

“ see where you ‘re 
wiser then them
you guys know 
its  corporations 
make us tick 
that after all 
gets  said and done
its bidnezz
 that gets it done 
 big or small
 its bidnezz
actually  feeds
your family

“my young friends”

little sip here 

“ I FEEL i can call you friends
 cause I feel a kinship
with ya 
I never could call
 your parents friends

I DON’T KNOW 
there was always a gap

 well friends 
all I CAN SAY TO YOU 
is don’t 
be like them 

in a world 
as dangerous as this 
don't expect 
 the institutions
of  this country 
 to devote 
the time and resources 
necessary 
to spoon feed ya 
like we do 
your ma and dad 


shit they feel so entitled 
they want you 
their own children 
to carry them 
  after they retire
at 58 or 62 
 
  they haven’t saved a dime
sure too many of em
 won a lottery
thats right a lottery 
 by hittin 
the stock and real estate markets
like they did blundering into 
 a once in a  century 
time of growth and appreciation 
that was pure luck

but their spending
it all  just the same 

squandering their blessings their gifts 
yep why not 
while their still spry and ful of juice 
besides like
I said 
they figure you owe em
about 1/3 of your pay check 
EVENTUALLY 
that oughta 
 keep em
in silk draws 
for the duration 
come what may 
you’ll carry em

they’re countin
on that kidz  ”

long pull on the water bottle 

“ listen
 i’ll be straight with ya 
if you wanta
 cut back your
job  hours 
when you hit 70
or 75 
then guys for god sake 
 start putting 
 something away now

 we built ya a 401 k plan
pump somethin in it 

and what ever
 you do 
don’t trust uncle Sambo
CAUSE 
uncle sambo is
A WELSHER ”

FINISHES OFF 
THE SPRING WATER 
 BOTTLE 
AND DEFTLY
HURLS DIRECTLY
 INTO
A DISTANT TRASH CAN 


“ NOW 
   LET ME BE CANDID 
I’VE DONE ALL I CAN
TO TRY KEEPING
UNCLE SAMBO HONEST
THESE MANY YEARS 
 but folks 
no matter what he sez 
Sambo  ain’t about to
  bail you out
anything like 
the way he
PLANS ON
BAILING OUT YOUR POP 

listen Up 

when its your turn 
to dance 
the rest of your life away 
 well 
trust your good old boss
when I tell ya
 
 uncles not likely  
to  play
 fiddle for ya ”

ain’t gonna happen pard 
no way
 no how 
no sir 
no madam 

why ?

cause whos runnin SAMBOS
TABLES 
now 
I mean not in my day
BUT NOWWWWW

BOOMERS
ladies and gentlemen of the future 
 BOOMERS 
BOOMERS
BOOMERS 

TODAY AND TOMORROW
AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW 
AND TOMORROW 
WE GOT YOU GOT 
AROUND HERE 
GOVERNMENT OF THE BOOMERS 
FOR THE BOOMERS
AND BY THE BOOMERS 

AND LISTEN STRAIGHT 
IT SHALL NOT 
PERSHISES FROM THIS EARTH
UNTIL THEY DO 

GET ME KIDZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

I’l say no more
the rest is up to 

YOU 
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