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America Gone Bonkers By Richard Wilcox
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“Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?” - Terry Pratchett You don't need to be a PhD, rocket scientist or brain surgeon to figure out that America has gone bonkers. A relative who lives in the beautiful state of Maine and probably one of the more sane and livable places in the country relays the following story to me. My relatives look after an old lady there in a small rural neighborhood. She is on an assortment of pharmaceutical drugs. This lady should not be driving a car but wanted to start driving because she felt she needed to get around more while her husband was recovering from minor surgery. My relatives told her very clearly, several times, that it was too dangerous to drive, but the lady's doctor, a neurologist (charlatan and quack) told her that she could drive, no problem. What happens? Right out of a Laurel and Hardy movie: The drugged-out old lady backs out of her driveway, mistakes the gas pedal for the brake pedal and barrels full speed into a mobile home across the road. The car goes straight up the side of the home vertically so that the front of the car is facing the ground and the back end is facing up-- toward the sky. Fortunately no one was injured in the mishap. Unfortunately this state of affairs is not uncommon in the American medical model where malpractice and inappropriate drug use is out of control (1). The home was badly damaged though so the old folks who are living there, with one on a dialysis machine, have to live elsewhere until the insurance company feels like doing anything (ie., bureaucracy, red tape, stalling tactics). Some friendly neighbors said they could fix the place up so they could move back in but then the insurance would not cover the costs. I assume this is typical of life in America and you can't make this stuff up. My relative reports that 75 percent co-workers at the typical public office where they work are on anti-depressants! The new cable TV stations on offer include exciting hard-core “fighting” channels, a menu of insipid reality TV degeneracy and the wonderful new “Shalom” channel to promote the interests of Jews, who make up a tiny fraction of Maine's population. In the meantime, Maine is apparently being populated with refugees from Burundi, who are actually nice people, it is reported, but they are taking away jobs from the stupid, lazy Americans. Maybe the dumb Americans deserve what they get. Sadly, young folks have no choice in the matter, and getting a university degree these days doesn't mean what it used to when graduates can no longer find jobs (can you say “out-sourcing” and “off-shoring”?) and are strapped with insurmountable debt (2; 3). Maybe we should change the term “usury” to the more accurate “Jew-sury” (4; 5). Probably America could do better than sending millions of tax dollars every single day to the Zionist-apartheid, world's most racist and hateful terrorist state, Israel (6). Meanwhile, I dug deep into my pockets to send another relative who lives in the Broken Heartland of America some money. They could not cover rent payments while they were in between jobs. They did not ask for the money and I volunteered it, and was happy to do it. I hope to get paid back interest free (I don't practice jew-sury) but won't be surprised if they can't repay me. Not that I am rolling in doe myself. In Japan it is increasingly difficult for middle class people to raise families (7; 8; 9; 10; 11). I teach 22 university courses per week at several universities and my wife works as well. This barely covers the expenses of feeding and clothing children and private school tuition costs. I like my job and am grateful for the work, and Japan is an overall a safe and livable environment *(aside from radiation in the food and water). Full time university professors in Japan teach just a few classes per week, have to go to some meetings but have a lavish lifestyle subsidized by the slave labor force of un-unionized part timers. Part time workers now comprise nearly four out of every ten workers in Japan and receive no health or retirement benefits, not to mention suffer with lack of job security (12; 13; 14; 15). Of course, the middle class in Japan is sinking and the elites here could care less, as long as they can figure out one crass ponzi scheme after another to rip off the public (16). Tokyo Olympics 2020 to the rescue! * Richard Wilcox is a Tokyo-based teacher and writer who holds a Ph.D. in environmental studies and is a regular contributor to the world's leading website exposing the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Rense.com. He is also a contributor to the dynamic Activist Post website. His radio interviews and articles are archived at http://wilcoxrb99.wordpress.com and he can be reached by email at wilcoxrb2013@gmail.com.
References 1. Is US Health Really the Best in the World? 2. Young and in Debt in New York City 3. Fake Employment Statistics: More Phantom Jobs Created in America, All In The Wrong Places 4. Capitalism is Jewish Usury http://realcurrencies.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/capitalism-is-jewish-usury/ 5. The Jewish Hand in the World Wars 6. Tax Dollars, Detroit and Israel http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/04/tax-dollars-detroit-and-israel/ 7. Record-low births saw Japan's population plummet at record pace in 2013 8. Tax cuts for the wealthy in Japan while middle class suffers 9. Consumption tax hike lifts inflation to a 23-year high 10. Japan Hits the Skids: Retail Sales Apocalypse leaves Abenomics in Tatters http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/30/japan-hits-the-skids/ 11. 'Bad inflation' shadows Japan 12. The Crisis in Education https://archive.org/details/TheCrisisInEducation 13. Gutting Higher Ed through the “Completion Agenda”http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/04/gutting-higher-ed-through-the-completion-agenda/14 Noam Chomsky, temporary faculty and the future of academic freedom 15. Higher university fees in Japan raise concern 16. Architect blasts new Tokyo Olympics stadium as ‘a sin, a crime’
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