House of Paine

the lost new deal

 
  braking the social contract
part 5 


some dared
call it 

“ defacto  social democracy ”

but they’re fools 
and pastors mostly
 
what we
  really are hangin on to here 
is this shady
shabby 
 fuckin old coat
 called 
“ the new deal two ”
no actually its the new deal 
part 2.2

the .2 being LBJ’s add ons
called the great society 

and its fucking
 in tatters complete functionless
tatters 
and has been
 for 25 years at least 



  
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now actually 
what it really was
was simple 
it was 
a nice way
for burger goo goos 
 to see things
of a social nature 
 and still  sleep at night
 
you know 
a bed time story 
for the followers 
of Eleanor Roosevelt 
particularly 
“ happily ever after ”part 
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but it did almost look like
 the real  game
  played down there on the field 
for almost 25 years 
yes indeed it did look so 
and it cheered the kold war heartz 
of  polite progressive folkz 
here in the mechanized world 
from oh  1950 or so 
to say 1975
  then boioioiing 
yep the springs popped 
and 
 basically since ford
lost to  carter 
the raw unfumigated
 wage rate  facts 
 started stinking so bad 
they weren’t
  the solice of  social progress lovers
   any longer
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but for the record
heres what it was
when it was the serenade of burgersweets 

first off 
 pretend society
our society 
america the bountiful 
 has only one class

a class of workers 
that lives off wages
earned on jobs 
when they can get jobs 
ofcourse 


now the object of the game 
is fix up the spontaneous holes
 in the fabric

thatz right 
stand a top this class
and 
Mcmaster mind
a  tax and transfer
highway that covers the gaps 
the spontaneous rough and ready 
set up generates

 take a piece of  pay roll here 
and  shoot it around 
to where its needed
say there at old lady buggle butts 
yes 
the old 
the sick
 the unemployed

mental slows and mental wrecks 
etc etc 
and especially 
kids with 
one off moms

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pretty simple 

and cool too
 if there weren’t
 another class out there

 yes 
they did good 
they made 
 the whole deal 
a new deal
 a better deal 

for a while anyway
the other class
 held they ‘re ground
sure as hell they did 
but didn’t really push back
as hard as they might have

the other class
said 
“ okay
we got rising per hour output
so we’ll let wageling wages 
rise along those lines
even let the unions survive 
we’ll just keep profit
rates  steady
and build our overseas holdings

it was a kinda defacto 
class to class social contract 

what all of the idiots 
on the wageling side 
didn’t grasp
was the fine print 
the fucking thing turned out 
to have a time limit 
it was 
a thirty year deal
thats it
 no options
 no extensions 
 
and 
well come the  70’s
when  the contract expired

yep ........!

 folks we bin 
 working without a contract
ever since 

right off 
the two class deal 
began to peel apart 
right off 

seeems to the shagrin of the dobees 
the corporate tower creeps
wanted 
the whole set up 
scrapped as pronto as possible 
and sure enough
they scrapped it 
chunk by chunk 
they  scrapped the set up 
and  without
 much hassle either 

by the skillful use of one wedge issue
 after another 
they mansaged to keep
 enough yahoos
  off the field
  or even better  playing
linemen
 for their own worsed enemies
long enough to
bust things up proper

so proper
when the vanwinkles 
woke up
 
dah
oyoyoying 

they found it was already 

 “ too late now hard onz “
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so we’re  in the   midst 
no 
we’re at the tail end 
of  a huge
multi decade   reshaping 

 ripping down
our transfer system 

 privatizing social nets 

 by the way gals 
this is just a  homey thing 

america ain’t alone 

by no means 

these same fucking 
casino  owners
are  changing
the odds
all  across the fucking board 

braking all the rules


and whats 
 kinda new 
they’re going 
more and more beyond 
modern management
kold war klass fuck stealth
going more and more beyond 
they’re old ways

 they ‘re really openning up

perhaps the recent 
wall street crash
has liberated them

liquidation of the suckers is an elixur 
for tower types 
and 
 all the revelations
 of their lewd juggles and jiggles 
its brung em 
a damn yer eyes 
go for broke high 

since  the bolder got rolled away 
they seem ethereally confident 

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yes liz 
 the crooks are giddy 

giddy with doomed bravura 
like satans angels 
on the third day of war 
 just before jesus 
stepped into the action 

look around 
 now 
more and more 
they’re 
  right up front 

“ we’re takin it back
  you mother fuckers
 takin it back 
all of it  ”

 yes
 without any compunction worth a shit 
they’re hitting 
 the wagelings
hittin em and hittin em hard 
with guilded age zest 

hittin wave after wave 
of white wagelings 
right over 
the fucking cabasa 
 right over 
the fucking head

its wild showy 
stuff for sure 
and it makes
 for strange spooky  times 

its almost 
like seeing
vampires  attack
 in broad daylite 

as if all of a sudden 
they came at uz
 at high noon shouting 

“ shit assholes
 we were never really 
afraid of the sun 
nothin but a fucking 
 hoax
 to keep you 
 believing ya had
 safety of sorts 
you assholes 
keepin  you believing 
 you had 
 places and times 
 we couldn’t
 reach ya ”
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 glory be

 but even thats 
only the first course 

not satisfied with 
ruiniing the one class illusion
not satisfied 
with bellowing
 for profits apon profits 
so loud 
no one can miss the chasm
btwixt them and humble wagery 

now more and more 
they’re 
 protruding  into
 former wageling territory

more and more like their 
splendid little mini me 
like  isreal itself 
 the profit klass too 
is building a moving  barrier
a flying wedge 
 one that protrudes
 deeper and deeper 
 beyond the 67 greenline
of americas class divide 

pushing and chiseling 
piece by piece
 section by section 
deeper and deeper 
 into the greater west bank
 of wagelingdom 

it  seems simple to me 
without really letting 
all us players in on it 
they’ve gone mad 

and where they’re headed
and trying to take this country
will make 
 the so oft falsely over praised
“ defacto social democracy  ”
 look like santas village

listen father sunday
heres the itinerary 
first we’re  
 headed into 
this state of the art 
 hot new  fast fuck 
forward  hussle
and believe me it’ll be so nasty 
talk about high handed ass kicks 
fuck 
 hell itself
will be sending up bus trips 
to  take lessons 
but  then
after too much fun 
and 
cause its planet earth
 we got to work with here 
and not krypton 
we’re in for
 a big mother fuck of a crash 
 like 
 29 all over again 
yep 
we’re in 
for a  blow down 
a real  ripe one 

 thanx to
Ms Social  Reality 
and her relentless
 love of slapstick 

before this show is over 
you’re goin to see 
 a whole pant load of
 silk hat klowns 
 ended up 
 mug down
 and  drawning 
in a puddle of 
their own   fraudulent slime 
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by the way 
don’t blaime 
just the local republadons 
for christ sake 
this is worldwide
all at once 
 every where
now its not reform and roll back
 now its
counterrevolution 

ditch the social market
entirely
ditch the social security
entirely
ditch  the social society
entirely 

“ now its total war !!!!! ’’

the profit mouses roar 

“ final solution
death to social democracy ”

from sweden
 its eden 
to hokaido
 its neighdido

from tasmania to alaska 
up
 around
 down and thru 

 if you live
anywhere worth calling
  a prime world
 setting 
the shit thats  been
 going down for decades
is about to hit warp speed 

( by the way 
some sparks like to point 
 to the fall of the german walls 
as the final big ass pinch

maybe  )


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who’s with us still ?

the defense is know conducted 
by the predefeated

its an Alamo mentality

take  union HQ 
there its all theatre 

dress up like its 1936

knowing it ain’t 
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the hands are coming across 
with less and less high cards
and there hasn’t been 
a face card
seen on this side of the table 
 since 68

the dons all brand new 
since the 96 revolution
 are dancing 
to the tunes
of their  lost victories 

every day brings a raft 
of surprising 
folds 
and silly hopeless
  go for broke 
sees and calls 
blood gorged 
contracts sweated out
obvious bridge moves by corporate sharpers

 not quite ready to pull the rug

the dons staggering out 
puffed by totally unsustainable
“ concessions  ”

even the victories
 all look like 
last time deals 

the union
dons  are like tics 
and 
like ticks
the dons  
iz 
about to burst 

the play
 is going against us
 faster and faster 
 boys and girls

and the sharpers
are uppin the ante
and flushing out all 
the cone heads  bluffs

the globe is 
 littered 
with caste offs
bust outs and croaks 

and 
 everyone still at the tables 
is  calling  madly for new cards

and whats  sliding out of the shoe 
has got the fools  agog 
   
dealer winners after dealer winners 
no matter 
what the old odds 
might have dictated 

the house keeps sweeping along 




bottom line brothers and sisters

old strategies
 in a new 
universe  of chances 
is insanity 

I say 
stop playing 

stand up 

and 
flip
the fuckers table over 
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