If You’re Struggling . . . You’re Not Alone

FOR PEOPLE WHO DON’T UNDERSTAND THE INFLUENCE OF GOVERNMENT:

Everything That Happens In Our Lives – Good & Bad . . . Is Somehow Tied To Government.

The People Who Don’t Pay Attention, who Don’t Ask the Right Questions, who Don’t Demand Accountability . . . And Vote For Personality Opposed To Integrity . . . Are Responsible For The Lives We Live.

MISERY LOVES COMPANY . . . BUT IT DOESN’T MAKE IT ANY EASIER:

Anne & I Give Thanks That We Can Afford To Keep A Roof Over Our Heads & Food On The Table.

That Said – It Isn’t Easy . . . Like a Great Many People – Perhaps Most People, Anne & I Measure Every Purchase Before we Decide to Spend Money on Anything that is Not Essential (Except Dog Food & Doggie Treats), Since We Don’t Know What Tomorrow Will Bring, and our Revenue Stream is Very Much Dependent on our Pensions, Which Are Challenged Daily By The Cost Of Living.

Even People With More Money, who Live a More Lavish Lifestyle, but Not an Excessive Lifestyle are Struggling, since the “Normal” Costs of House Maintenance, Taxes, Mortgage (Rent), Insurances Etc, Etc, Etc . . . Have Exploded Beyond Normal Expectations.

Knowing This . . . As Pensioners In Our Mid 70’s . . . Anne & I can Imagine What Living is Like for Older People, Or People Around Our Age, Even In Their 60’s, Without Sufficient Savings & Generous Pensions, as Inflation & Shrinkflation (Diminished Packaging) Devour Personal Resources.

PART OF IT IS BECAUSE OF GREED – MUCH BECAUSE OF GOVERNMENT:

Then there are the Young People with Usurious Student Loans to Repay, Coupled to Useless Degrees that Really Are Not Worth the Paper Upon which they are Printed.

Imagine This . . . Being in Your Early Twenties, Owing Perhaps Several Hundred Thousand Dollars in Student Debt (Loans), Which By Law In America, You Cannot Easily Resolve Through Bankruptcy, Holding a Degree that Hardly Qualifies a Graduate to Work at a Fast Food Hamburger Joint – Earning A Minimum Wage.

HOW DID WE GET FROM WHERE WE WERE . . . TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY?

If You Are Old Enough . . . And I Don’t Mean Being Really Old, But Born just a Few Generations Ago, you will Remember How Life was Like, as we Lived in a Cornucopia, just Waiting for the Rewards, As Long As We Worked For What We Wanted, And For What We Got.

WHAT HAPPENED? . . . WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GOLDEN PENSION YEARS?

Socialist (Communist) Academia Happened. LEFTIST Hollywood Propaganda Happened. Propagandized Media Happened. An Un-Blindfolded Judiciary Happened. Dishonest (Corrupt), Incompetent & Disreputable Politicians Happened. Lobbyists Happened. Political Unaccountably Happened. And Ignorant Electors Happened . . . As it all Transpired Before our Open Eyes, While At The Same Time In The Shadows.

BOUGHT & PAID-FOR GOVERNMENT HAPPENED:

We Are What Happened . . . We Let It Happen – We Willfully Drank From The Poisoned Chalice.

I Am Not A Religious Person . . . But the Values of Judeo/Christian Ethos Kept us Grounded. The Ten Commandments Gave us a Moral Pathway. Family Kept us Bonded. And our Belief in Destiny (God) & Country Kept us United as a Free People.

TODAY . . . WE HAVE BECOME WHAT WE FEARED MOST:

Whether It Be America Or Canada . . . We Have Become Divided Nations, Where Politics Have Superseded National Identity, Causing Greed, Corruption, a Lack of Family Bonds, Judeo/Christian Values and the Ethos that Hard Work, Integrity & Sacrifice . . . Are What Is Needed For Success & Prosperity.

WE ARE NOT LIVING IN SODOM & GOMORRAH – BUT NOT FAR FROM-IT:

The Bedrock Nuclear Family Is Dissolving Before Our Eyes.

We Have Forgotten Or Have Chosen To Forget Our History, from Where we Have Come, and the Sacrifices our Ancestors Made for all of us to Get Here. We Have Forgotten the Wars we Have Fought as a Nation, So We & The Rest Of The World Could Be Free.

Too Many North Americans Have Chosen to Forget or Fictionalize History, to Recreate Events that Never Happened, or Happened Otherwise, than the Stories that are Being Told.

It Wasn’t Conservative America Which Enslaved “Black People”. It Wasn’t Conservative Americans who Formed the KKK. It Wasn’t Conservative Americans who Created the Jim Crow Laws . . . But It Was Conservative Americans Who Carried The 1964 Civil Rights Act.

In Canada . . . It Wasn’t Conservative Canadians Who Said to the Jewish People Suffering Death & Destruction at the Hands of the Nazis & Liberal Europeans . . . that for Jewish Immigration to Escape the Ravages of Violent European Anti-Semitism . . . THAT NONE IS TOO MANY.

It Wasn’t Conservative Canadians who Turned-Away a Boatload of Jews Escaping from Europe, to be Sent Back to Nazi Europe, For Those Jews To Be Slaughtered Like Sheep.

I PRAYED WE WERE BEYOND ALL OF THAT – BUT WE ARE NOT:

Even With The Invention Of The Internet, Google, Blogging, Podcasts & AI . . . The Repeat Of History Will Not Be Deprived . . . which Doesn’t Mean we Can’t be Prepared for the Worst, Even Though We Belong To The Supposedly New Enlightened Society.

A Perfect Example Of The Not-So-New Social Treachery, Has Been The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which was Purportedly Created to Protect People from the Social Devastation of the Far Right, Which Turns-Out (SPLC) To Be More Nefariously Threatening To The Freedom Of America Than Is The Far Right.

One Also Has To Ask . . . What About the ACLU & Other Like-Minded Organizations, in Which so Many People Gave their Blind Trust, such as Groups Like Black Lives Matter, Antifa, J-Street & Movements that Pedal the Farce of Global Warming . . .

Or Bought The Tripe That Islam Is The Religion Of Peace, As Sharia Ensconces Itself Amongst Us?

THIS WILL BE OUR LAST CHANCE . . . WE CANNOT AFFORD TO BLOW-IT:

For At Least Two To Three Generations . . . We Have Become Our Own Worst Enemy . . . And Had it Not Been for Donald Trump, Who Has No Verbal Filter, and a Narcissistic Character Flaw that Defies Description . . . We Would Have Whimpered Into Defeat.

I DON’T LIKE IT . . . BUT YOU DANCE WITH THE ONE WHO BRUNG ‘YA:

At Least Now, Because of Donald Trump’s Willingness to Take-On-All-Comers, while He Faces the Slings & Arrows Before His Term is Done, One Way Or The Other . . . We Still Have A Fighting Chance.

I Don’t Like The Rhetoric & The Way The World Is Turning . . . But What Is Our Choice?

Best Regards . . . Howard Galganov