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My fellow father-in-law chastised me recently…but only slightly…wondering why I had not published something of critical insistence from the body politic. El Gringo Viejo pleads guilty. It would be my preference to publish three or four brilliant broadsides per week in my on-going effort to bring redemption to the culture, but the mundane rushes in with trivial matters such as life and death, and of course, rich or broke.
These are truly the times that try men's souls. Women are having a bit of a tussle as well. We are enduring at this time a profound plague that it harvesting souls from the American and the Planet's population without much discrimination. We lament each passing. But it should be pointed out, for instance, that your humble servant survived the hideous poliomyelitis (polio) that burdened so many during the late 1940s through the first part of the decade of the 1950s.
During those times a sullen, somewhat frightened, population had to deal with a silent, secret epidemic that was killing and crippling children, seemingly at every other home. The good Doctors Salk and Sabin each developed a cure in the 1950s…both of which were effective, and those injections were provided all around the nation fairly quickly. My records were lost somehow, so I had to have two extra shots…or what turned out to be five, total. Yes, I did survive.
To put things into proper perspective, it should be noted that the Spanish Flu affected approximately one-third of the population of Planet Earth during the period 1917 - 1920. It was devastating. The planet had approximately 1,900,000,000 souls (one billion, nine hundred thousand), and almost one of every 32 people died. The death toll was 675,000 in the United States alone, when the United States of America's population was 106,000,000 (one hundred and six million)…or one of every 150 Americans citizens died from the Spanish flu alone, all during a little less than three years.
The toll was greater than the combined losses of Union and Confederate soldiers during the War Between the States. Both sides uselessly lost a total of 400,000 men at arms.
In my cold-hearted, but quite reasonable way, it should be pointed out that, at present, we are hovering around 320,000,000 people who call the USA home. That is three times the number of people we had among us one hundred years ago in the United States. We are fortunate, in spite of the numerous losses, to have had a total of 220,000 (4 Dec 2020) deaths by the coronavirus contagion because the old Spanish Flu, if it were killing at the same rate as it did back in 1920…would have taken almost 700,000 casualties by this point.
These are salient points about the realities of life. Another salient point is the quagmire of duplicity and mendacity when the Governor of the State of New York begged for help from President Trump, citing the overload of patients in the Metropolis and the State in general. The President allocated two ships…one an advanced United States Coast Guard rapid transfer and attack craft, and the other a United States Navy Hospital Ship…old and totally renovated, and fully outfitted. The Navy ship docked in New York's harbour and was used somewhat sporadically, and after a few days, was essentially unused.
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| The good ship "COMFORT USN" Medical and surgical…1,000 beds…top flight personnel but almost no patients. Gov. Cuomo decided to send the afflicted to Old Folks Homes…and then he just kind of forgot about them…and blamed Trump. _______________________________________ |
The great medical and naval authority, Governor Cuomo, pretty much either forgot about the huge asset sitting a stone's throw away, or he decided that he did not need the ship. And besides, he hated Donald Trump. First things first. And a famous, highly decorated Ship by the name of Comfort with 1,000 beds for the injured and ill marks time…because of the indifference and incompetence of the Governor and his lapdogs Mayor De Blasio and brother Chris Cuomo.
The Governor and the Mayor are two peas in the pod who have presided over the steady collapse of the World's Greatest Metropolis. As in many areas such as northeastern-most Illinois State, including the area known as Chicagoland a similar downgrading in "life-style amenities" has been underway for a generation. Racial disharmony, infrastructural degradation, and general quality of life issues have set in the once beckoning jewel.
For the working class, middle class, and lower-range of the wealthy, they know that they are looked upon as criminals who have made money by doing nothing more than work 40 to 90 hours per week. Chicago land has a large plurality of people who believe they deserve full-subsidy housing, free or nearly free medical services, schools that essentially serve as social / gang gathering and staging areas along with free food…after all, who needs reedin', ritin', an' rithmetic?
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| A USCG Cutter Ready for service to transport the injured or to attack, if need be. This ship, above, is stationed in San Diego, California. ________________________ |
For instance, a close friend of the family had a nephew who was born and raised in California, somewhere between Ontario and Los Angeles. He and his wife came over to Texas to "escape" the horrid place his home area had become…puttered around here for about a year and a half, and then returned to his beloved area because Texas was too dull and conservative.
We felt genuinely sorry to see them go, but after their departure, no one seemed to speak them again. Texians have that characteristic of being overly talkative and open or quiet and reserved…as if studying a situation or a group of folks. We also tend to overinflate the sights, sounds, and everything else about Texas, so one needs to become accustomed to those quirks.
The reader should…or actually must…understand that Dallas, Austin, and Houston have fallen into the abyss of dull arrogance and pathological political correctness. Austin considers defunding the police, so as to be "with-it" with the likes of George Soros and Ocasio - Cortez. For a long while my disposition was that, before long, a melting pot effect would finally absorb the Texian out-of-date approach to life and culture.
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| The Family of Ralph Yarborough in front of their "Sears Home" newly installed in Chandler, Texas. Ralph is the second child from the right. He was born in Chandler in 1903. __________________________________ |
the Children's Nutrition Programme bill that was working its way through the labyrinth of the Texas House and Senate. His oratory was a real giggle for the Latin folks who had never heard a truly eloquent blowhard speak with a deep East Texas accent. But, in truth, he was a great, homey elocutionist. We leave those fond moments to the final point of this screed.
As an erstwhile sociologist and historian, my certainty about a certain cobweb of interests has become ever more certain. Beginning with the "Great Society" bilge that was slopped out on the American populace and continuing to this time we have borne witness to the subtle removal of sound social structure by always assuming that this or that person or family…"needs help". It is true that almost every person and/or family at some point or another "needs help". The point here is that the help when needed should come directly from a friend or assembly of friends, fellow churchmen, workmates, or whatever positive combination can conveniently unite and solve the given problem.
But NO!!! shout the reformers. The ones who truly care about the poor!! They can solve all the problems. The first solution is food stamps. With food stamps people can eat whatever they want and wherever they wish. And they are free and accepted as currency in food store places.
Next, because of the stinginess of the people who have things, the people need low-cost housing operated by housing projects and spires of brick and mortar with thousands of little boxes inside where people who "need" can receive essentially free or extremely low rent arrangements. Most frequently a cycle develops. In a "neighbourhood" of 12,000 apartments in the same area, formed by 20 or more high buildings, extensive parking lots, sometimes even with a "community hall" or some rudiment of a tennis or basketball court area, we find one of the main industries of the "Great Society".
Various of the younger women wind up without a husband (or facsimile). The apartment is "free" because the Housing Commission or whatever pays the rent by allocations from some government funding source. The young women frequently wind up with a pumpkin in the belly. They go down to the emergency room with some kind of cramps in the belly and are taken in. In a few days they're back home…in the cubicle provided by the Housing Administration. Each girl has little money, but suddenly a big stud appears and says he heard about the new arrival.
Comments are exchanged, and the girl asks the man if there is any way he could loan her a little money for the baby's food. The man says everything will be all-right and that he will try to help her out a little when he can. This is repeated over the months, and the man takes certain advantages of the girl who now has three babies…three babies in less than three years. But she can almost make ends meet because the AFDC pays for a lot. There's a "free kindergarten" in the Projects. And the food stamps help, and there's other ways to make a little scratch. She also has to pay 10% of her "public assistance" to the Nice Man who helped her in the beginning. He turns out to be one of those types who maintains a covey of ten or twenty women who seem to have no trouble producing babies to gain the increase in allocations in Aid to Families with Dependent Children - AFDC (titles and variable allocations are different depending upon the State and region).
Many of us have heard of or seen the effects of this horrid socio/cultural oozing steadily into the gutter filled with drugs, violence, robbery, and death. These projects have gangs that patrol and defend their corners. Sometimes the gangs with elaborate codes, gestures, outlandish dress, leave their zones and invade other zones.
Sometimes there are "manifestations" and outcries about the oppression brought on by White people who already "have theirs". Whole blocks in noble cities are reduced to rubble, ruin, and charred remains. The "looters" see their actions as a form of retribution and restitution, while leftist officials snicker and declare that it is all the fault of Conservatives and Republicans who want to keep people down who are poor and black…or purple…or green or whatever.
It is truly a form of Sociological Indigestion. It has become a situation from which there is no escape. The suggestion that any woman who is on welfare or other form of public assistance who has birthed two children without benefit of clergy will have to consent to be spayed. The only solution for the males, once proven by DNA analysis to the paternal partner in the birth of the baby with no father, should be neutered.
Roars of laughter can be made as the commonly responsible people read this analysis and account of the socio / cultural disaster that is looming. But the facts are…..the facts. The Central Government taxes us…and gives the money to billionaires and women who produce miracle babies. The babies grow up and in far, far, far too many cases turn into monsters with gang tats, semi-automatic firearms, and no sense of social responsibility.
Sociological Indigestion: Is there no cure?
EL GRINGO VIEJO
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