Submitted by Keith B.
Guest Post by Fred Reed
Great. Just ever-lovin’pea-pickin’ great. In LA some sixty thousand people–who really knows?–sleep on the sidewalks, in tents, cardboard boxes, sleeping bags, or not much of anything. Others live in their cars. The same in San Fran, Seattle, St. Louis. There being no bathrooms, they defecate as the urge hits, and where. What choice do they have? Some are junkies, others crazy, many just with no jobs or jobs that don’t pay enough for a room.
Meanwhile Biden sends billions to Ukraine, lots of billions, our billions, while America crumbles within. A corrupt, senescent, second-rate lawyer mysteriously empowered to bankrupt his own country to benefit a corrupt, dirtball country of no importance to America.
How is this possible? Why do Americans tolerate it?
Because they have no choice. Americans have no influence over their government except in things that do not matter to that government.
Recently my stepdaughter Natalia, Mexican, went to Austin to visit friends. She returned and pronounced America a truly odd country. All the houses were the same, so how could you find your way home at night? And there were lots of people, she said, living under bridges and on the sidewalks. This she thought strange. She had never seen such a thing in Mexico. In twenty years, neither have I.
Meanwhile Biden sends fortunes to Ukraine. How is this? Couldn’t we have an American President? Just once? Someone who cares about people in his own country? No prospect of this is in sight
In America there are people, lots of them, who don´t have enough to eat, or barely do. Appalachia, the Rust Belt, the rural Deep South. I wonder whether Biden has enough to eat. I wonder whether he cares that many of his citizens do not. No, come to think of it, I don’t wonder. But he cares, cares deeply, about Ukraine.
America crumbles, but Biden is going to rebuild Ukraine. Our trains look like something out of Turner Classic Movies. The passenger versions, across the continent, are nice, slow but appealing as period pieces. Chatanooga Choochoo, all that. They are also primitive and badly maintained. We have had four freight derailments in a month or so.
No, make that five. This morning we read of another, in Arizona. This is Third World, pushing Fourth. But Biden is going to do what it takes, for as long as it takes. For Ukraine.
I sometimes wonder whether Biden knows his own country, or anybody’s country. There is no evidence that he does. He wasn’t in the military, didn’t spend time hitchhiking through West Virginia, doesn’t know the blast of bigrig wind standing beside the highways of the Far West. He has never worked for a living, probably doesn’t know anyone who has. A political hack and second-rate lawyer, finishing seventy-sixth in a class of eighty-five in a mediocre law school after being caught cheating. But he will send as much of our money as it takes to Ukraine. Are you grateful yet?
The water is undrinkable in Flint, Michigan and Jackson, Mississippi and, I am told by my daughter who lives there, in New Orleans. What the hell kind of country allows this? Answer: A bushworld country, or one whose government is more interested in Ukraine than in its own people.
But, if I may, another word on trains. My wife and I were in China several years back, and rode their high-speed trains (180 miles per hour). They are startling, smooth, quiet, gorgeous. China has 24,000 miles of them. Their high-temperature superconducting maglev version, with carbon-composite body, at 360 miles per hour, is in late-stage development. America has not a nanometer, not an angstrom, of either. Coming back from Chengdu was like returning from a scifi movie.
But Biden sends billions to Ukraine, a little, little man eating prime rib in the White House while a couple of hundred thousand die for him in Ukraine. Anything for Ukraine. Anything at all.
Americans do not go to doctors because they cannot pay the bills. Unlike countries of the First World, America does not have decent national medical care. Do you suppose that Bident lacks medical care while he sends money, desperately needed by America, to Ukraine?
China–if I may again say that horrid word–has a for-profit economy. China spends its money on China. America spends its money on Ukraine. Go look at China. You will see highways going in, four-lane tunnels running twelve miles under mountains, brightly lighted. Airports, astonishing bridges. Phenomenal high-tension electrical lines. If you are interested in such things,China has a massive Five G installed base and, now, from Huawei, Five.five G.
Biden has just signed an $886 billion military bill. Add the VA, black programs of god-knows what size, and DOE, and you get well over a trillion. Most Americans, I read over and over, live maxed out on credit cards, don’t have five hundred dollars for an emergency. Biden, a draft-dodger during Vietnam and now a warrior President, probably is not maxed out on Visa. He probably has five hundred dollars, as his people do not. But he is not ignoring them. He is buying them aircraft carriers at thirteen billion per, and sending their money to Ukraine. Which do you need more, affordable dental care or an aircraft carrier?
Crime in America is at appalling levels. Tourists from normal countries must view visits as trips to a zoo. Education is abysmal and getting worse fast under Biden. Potholes come, bridges age, infrastructure rots. But Ukraine gets lots and lots of stuff free.
And now the banks collapse because of, well, backbreaking military giveaways to Lockheed-Martin, backbreaking national debt, backbreaking trade deficits, and unending wars. Now Ukraine demands fighter planes.
So let us thank the gods that we live in a democracy where the will of the people rules. Don’t ride the trains, drink the water, or need a doctor, and keep a comfortable pad handy because sidewalks are hard and get cold in winter. But we can be sure that Biden will send as much of our money to Ukraine as that dismal, trivial country wants. Are you grateful?
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Fuck Joe Biden,Fuck his disgusting fucking family and fuck this fucking country .
Great article. Except for the part about wishing we had socialist health care. Here’s a great article on that.
I plan on going on Medicare when I turn 65.
I wonder if that insolvent 1965 wonder of the US government, child of LBJ et al, that saved Blue Cross Blue Shield from impending bankruptcy, will exist in 5 years, when my 65th birthday arrives? I hope it is at least optional to sign up, the VA is my “healthcare provider” . . . and Ukraine IS hell!!!
I’ve been paying ~$150/month for my Medicare for 10 years and haven’t used it once.
I have been paying house insurance for years and have’t used it once either. Although my house is paid off I still continue to purchase house insurance. That is how insurance works. You share the risk, the risk of any one home burning down is low, but it is hard to recover from if you don’t have insurance. The difference with medicare or national health insurance is force. Though you haven’t used it in ten years, next year you could get cancer or need heart surgery and it would pay ten times what you ever paid in. Still it is force and the choice should be up to you. But also like fire insurance, you should not be allowed to purchase the insurance after your house burns down or after you get sick. If you die, that was your choice too.
Be thankful, that would mean you are seventy-five and healthy. The graveyards of the World are full of a lot of people younger than that.
I thought that was the idea……….
Have a backup plan.
That may be. I’m 62 and am already on it. You can retire at 62 and in my opinion, should. Advice from someone who would be dead right this minute (serious stroke), you don’t know when your number is getting called. I’d get as much of my money back as I could.
Fred has always been interesting and mostly spot on. Our smallish city has never had beggars at intersections – saw our 1st two the other day. I called 911. They were back the next day.
That’s what non-partisan elections give you.
you called 911 because of a beggar? what a f-in asshole… some people fall on hard times, but shitheads like you are the ones that call on govt to enforce your views even though you proclaim a freedom and liberty environment. For folks like you, I hope the crash shatters you
The only thing worse than panhandlers are people who call the pigs to handle problems they won’t take care of themselves.
The majority of these panhandlers choose it as their occupation, and I don’t write those annual property tax checks so the cops can ignor vagrancy laws.
You write those checks so the pigs don’t take your property, don’t pretend otherwise.
They were 100′ from a Waffle House that had a “We’re Hiring” sign in their window. Screw you, they’re losers.
You should have offered them $100 if they would accept being driven 2 hours away to the nearest large city.
many panhandlers are just one confrontation from committing massive violence —
you did good lamont —
Now THAT was an excellent article. Thank you, sir!
She had never seen such a thing in Mexico. In twenty years, neither have I.
That is because all the poor mexicans came to the US illegally, Fred.
We DO NOT NEED government provided medical care, we need a truly free market medical system with no government interference.
TN,
Saying we need a “truly free medical market” reminds me of those defenders of communism who -when confronted by the evils of communism in practice – always say “real communism has never been tried”. We’re never EVER going to get a truly free market medical system with no government interference. Of that I am certain. If I’m right in that, then – it seems to me – the choices are 1) some kind Single Payer like Canada 2) Outright nationalized healthcare like the UK or 3) the clusterfuck we have now (18% of GDP and mediocre care that requires a shit ton of effort to make sure claims are processed through insurance, etc.).
Theoretically we could have private insurance with a mandate and government subsidies, like Switzerland or Germany, but we’re not Switzerland. We probably have more psychotic people than they have people – to say nothing of our throngs of imbeciles.
The cost and complexity of our current clusterfuck has gotten so bad, that I’ve concluded that a Canadian plan couldn’t be any worse. Besides, how many people over 65 are NOT on Medicare? Because that’s government-provided.
Iska, I think about the system we had 50 years ago without so much interference from government, insurance & big pharma. I grew up in a small town of 2500 and we had 3 family doctors who all made house calls.
Today it is more of an assembly line production to churn out the bills to the insurance company for them to cut by 50-60% and the Dr. Just calls in the prescriptions.
I’m on Medicare and thank goodness do not go to the doctor very often.
Almost everything was better 50 years ago.
vote harder, bruh.
Idaho Senators Set To Vote In Favor Of Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants — “Dreamers” Could “Buy” Citizenship
Mar 13
Written By Samantha Collins
RINOs Want To Turn Idaho Into California, and They Aren’t Even Hiding It.
https://www.idahotribune.org/news/idaho-senators-set-to-vote-in-favor-of-amnesty-for-illegal-immigrants-dreamers-could-buy-citizenship
It’s not the cost that keeps me away from the US medical establishment! Wait – so Mexico, at the current time, is safer than the US? Apparently the cartels wield max control to implement the mass invasion of people & drugs into this country…
Quite simple really, the money goes to Ukraine and is parceled out to the elite around the world. 10% for the big guy! Ukraine, a criminal enterprise disguised as a European country.
Eloquently stated, Balb.
“Fred has always been interesting and mostly spot on.”
Agreed, Lamont….and thank you Fred!
Moar Fred Reed!
Calling a spade a shovel.
The looting of ‘Murka continues and increases in velocity by the day. EwCrane is the “service de blanchisserie” of the ages for the U.S.S.A.guv.; and by extension, KM; WEPH; NWO, and Beast System playas, serfs.
Biden as POTUS certainly does not help the state of the nation. But it took decades to get here. Bad leadership, corruption, wickedness, people living off of their fellow man – fundamentally it comes down to the corruption of the Amerikan people and their desire to get something for nothing. It is the cause of the bloody demise of all empires.
To hell with Greater Khazaria. There fixed it.
Zelensky stated he wanted to build a “… big Israel…” in EwCrane. Just saying it shouldn’t be a mystery what the fuck is going on there with the 100s of billions of dollars being funneled there. The will get their filthy lucre no matter how many EwCranyans or Russians, Europeans, Americans or people of any colour, race, religion die. Madaleine Albright told us so.
It’s just sport for the Evil Fuckers.
“Ukraine. We stand NOTHING to gain from this insanity. It is nothing more than the personal vindictiveness of the Neocons who have transformed Ukraine into an Anti-Russia spearhead and American foreign policy into the aggressor in the quest for World War III. All Neocons should be arrested for treason. ”
Start with Victoria Nuland!!!
Why do people just ‘take it’, are docile and do little or nothing about the disintegration of the US? Just venting and blogging online, speak in quiet tones with each other and wander aimlessly about major corruption? Being told they will have and own nothing because it will all be stolen and taken from them? And no anger or action is taken? Voting for Trump or DeSantis or Trump/DeSantis? Decisions, decisions.
Various reasons however here is just one biggie. For those knuckleheads who still cling to the official propaganda and lies. Especially the ‘it’s for the children ‘ crapola when all they have to do is research or just search for themselves.
Drugged since the 50’s.
Stupid people.
Stupid people everywhere.
You seem to have hit upon the problem. There’s TOO MANY problems.
You take 325 million people and present them with 100 different problems all at once. The one thing I can guarantee you is that you’ll not reach a general consensus once. And that’s the plan. That’s how they just keep rollin’ along down Klownworld Main Street in broad daylight and no one takes a shot at them.
As a society, we have become (or been made, as the case may be) incapable of universal outrage in a common cause.
TPTB intend to see that we never get that common cause. They’re hiding it from us in a field of ten thousand causes…and it’s working. They think that if you feel like no one has your back, they are safe from you.
God! I love other people’s assumptions!
As I have said many times and receive the look of astonished bewilderment from man “I love what was my country unfortunately the country I was born in no longer exists and what is left is nothing but a well financed group of self serving miscreants elected , appointed or hired that despises me and the ground I stand on and will do anything to harm , bankrupt and kill me !
Note : If Minimum Wage kept up with inflation and Wall Street bonuses it would be $85 bucks per hour !
As for infrastructure : power , water , sewage , railroads and highways when we sold our manufacturing base out to low wage third world and CHINA a minority of Americans did well while the majority lost significantly. The community tax base was wiped out .
Many still remember the union job that supported a family and bought a home 2 cars and educated children its gone now and it’s not coming back !
My mother-in-law God test her soul should have managed the federal budget !
She put 3 kids thru Catholic school took them to Florida several times for that Disney Vacation bought a nice trailer on a rental lot in a beach oriented community for the summers and their retirement play spot !
She did that on one GM assembly line workers salary !
It’s the Biden liars and leftist ilk that stole all of that American lifestyle from generations !
They deserve nothing from us but resolve !
Graduated technical school in 91′,the instruscters kept saying it will be a service economy in the future,I kept wondering how the hell the knew that ?!?…… Before the decade was out,I worked for a branch of a large,local conglomerate who owned manufacturing plants making hvac parts and units,screw,bearing and chemicals..while visiting a large “storage”facility with my boss,I observed all this heavy machinery being prepared for overseas shipment to……….China! Vertical lathes,Mills,punches,presses and brakes!two football fields worth!I couldn’t believe my eyes!
Oh,and guess who/is the conglomerate was “owned”by?……
Yup,tiny hat club!
Such loyal,giving and compassionate people they are!!
Literally shipped off American jobs for more pieces of silver!
Now they infect the government!
Nor may you talk about them………..
i will be grateful when that worthless criminal and his family are gone. i will take in jail, too, but want that pustule gone for certain.
I pick two things out of that. First, the majority of those sleepin, shittin and needlin’ on the streets all over every Democrat run cesspool would be doing that very thing no matter what.
Second, yes, 2000% Biden and gang are embezzling taxpayer money.
This country was founded not only by men of faith,but they had intimate knowledge of the Bible.”There’s nothing new under the sun”.When one is scrubbed of his faith,it touches everything in his life because his attitude is a negative one,always rent seeking.
The sooner man believes in nothing,the quicker he believes in anything.