The Face of Misery, Then And Now.

This Memorial Day, looking back on one of the faces from the past.  A mother staring blankly into an unknown future. There are many questions, written on the weathered face staring back at us today. The same questions that were relevant then, are relevant now. How was her family going to survive.

Watching the morning news programs this morning, and the discussions center around the Covid 19 lock down and the effects of this crisis on average everyday Americans. And what the re-opening will look like and how it will be accomplished.  How soon will we see normal again.

The focus of Fox & Friends this morning, was in particular focused on the effects on those in New Jersey. New Jersey, a state where a gym has now been chained shut by order of the governor and the owners charged with crimes.

What crimes?  Violating a government edict it would appear. 

But New Jersey is not alone or unique in it's institutionalized and state sponsored suffering, or the draconian measures that have been levied against its residents and business owners.  Those in Michigan and Ohio and California and Washington State, Oregon and Virginia, have all seen the same and similar punitive actions, taken against their people. And the common thread seems to be in all of these states, that the US constitution is being ignored and violated?  And all of these states where this is happening, are states governed by democrat governors.

Mean while, businesses such as restaurants, have now come forward to state, that they cannot survive under these restrictions, while operating on 25% of their business or less. Something has to give.  And right now? It's these power hungry tyrants that expect people to just succumb to their fate, rather than stand up and reaffirm their rights.

As this summer unfolds? I am certain that we are going to see tens of thousands of American small businesses and dozens and dozens more, "formerly major American companies," bankrupted.

Hertz Rental Cars was the most recent to file bankruptcy Friday.

And who and what will fill that void?

I can tell you what I see filling the void.

The major monsters of the midway? Walmart, Amazon and the major banks? They will only continue to grow exponentially, via mergers and buyouts. Meanwhile, the Chinese and the Saudi's And others? Will race in for the fire sales and the death throes of what were once viable and thriving American companies.

Has America ever witnessed anything like that before? Yes we have. And the last time it occurred? Was called it "reconstruction" And the benefactors of our misery, were the "Carpet Baggers."

There were no foreign concerns or international air travel and banking back in those days. Therefore, it was the money changers and those in the north, those who actually forced the war on the south? Who descended upon the devastated and starving south and profited.

Fast forward one hundred and fifty five years? And welcome to today's world folks? Because we are not too damn far from that exact same reality occurring today.

Our enemies? Foreign and domestic? Have succeeded in tearing down the world's greatest economy in history. Our enemies, foreign and domestic, are succeeding in terrorizing small businesses and jobs into bankruptcy, failure and oblivion. Our enemies, foreign and domestic? Have disrupted our food supplies and our food chain. Both the processing and the transportation to market of our food is now in jeaopardy.

Look around you folks?

Have you ever seen a time? Or have you ever heard of a time?

When American farmers were forced to plow under their crops? Or pour out their milk? Or slaughter their herds of cattle and swine and poultry? Because the system has been so sufficiently and effectively affected and disrupted? That they cannot get their products and produce to market.

Now? Are you so dulled to these realities? That you are not only failing to see the immediate harm and danger of that, but you are also looking past the future realities that will surely arrive with just as much pain and suffering.

Americans have never been able to grasp the idea that nothing is free.

That everything has a cost and regardless of how you came to be given it? Someone paid for it. This Memorial Day tomorrow? There are millions of Americans who should stop and think about that. Because it has been the blood of Americans who have died to give you your privilege. It is they that have paid the price for the holiday of remembrance, that few even understand the purpose for today.

Yes, we will pay.

We will pay for that $1200 stimulus that congress passed. And we will pay for their subsequent stimulus and all the "free money."  And we will pay for the damage done to our food supply and delivery systems. To our schools and our churches. We will pay for the loss of millions of small businesses and restaurants. And we will not just pay via the loss of choice and convenience.

We will pay in the form of runaway INFLATION.

 

So ease back in your chairs this fine Sunday morning and consider those facts and realities. And keep in mind? That even though the president has ordered that all houses of worship be re-opened today? There remain those in New York and Detroit and in other cities? That remain chained.Forcibly closed.

The enemies of this nation and its people, both foreign and domestic are laying siege to the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. Because those freedoms are anathema to our enemies. They detest those rights, they detest our faith, they detest our freedoms, the same as they detest us.

And the sad fact remains? That many of our enemies are domestic and live among us. They exist as a cancer on this nation. Feeding upon their own power and the miseries that they can inflict on others. All to perpetuate their power and control over us.

Remember when Joe Biden was campaigning in 2012? When he warned black Americans that if they failed to vote for Barack Obama and him? "They gonna put you back in chains?"

The flip side reality of that statement? Was the truth and reality, that Biden and Obama's greatest fear? Was that Americans would wake up to the fact that the democrats and their complicit media, are the ones keeping America as a whole in chains.

So I say again, think about that, as you sit and sip your coffee this fine Sunday morning.

So ask yourself one simple question.  What is essential to you.  It's only your future at stake. ;-)