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After writing this, the lyrics to an old favorite song came to mind. "Sixteen Tons" made famous by "Tennessee" Ernie Ford.

"You load sixteen tons, and what do you get, another day older, and deeper in debt. Saint
Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go ---
I owe my SOUL to the Company Store!"

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Golden Years? SURE!

Copyright: May 31, 2006 – Thomas K. Hyland, Jr.

Well, like many of you, I first started earning money when I was only a kid. In my early ‘teens’ or maybe even sooner, we would take our ‘little red wagons’ usually “Western Flyers” from Western Auto, several blocks away from home, early on Saturday mornings, and stand outside the local A&P (Great Atlantic and Pacific) or “Pantry Pride” food stores. When any customer came out the door with several bags or boxes of groceries, they would be greeted by “You need a HAUL, Miss? /Mister?” Sometimes the competition was fierce because many of us eager youngsters wanted to earn some money for luxuries like: going to the ‘movies’ and being able to buy some candy, popcorn, and a soda.

Or sometimes we would be saving up to buy something ‘special’ like a new baseball glove or bat, or a set that actually did something, like an Erector set, or Chemistry set, or maybe even an expensive cowboy set of guns and holsters, like Hopalong Cassidy, or The Lone Ranger. Sometimes, depending on the time of year it was, it might be something really big, like a brand-spanking new BICYCLE! Yeah, sometimes, Christmas was tough, and Santa was broke, and you received your older sister’s newly painted GIRL’s bicycle that Dad had worked so hard to ‘fix up.’ Yeah, it was a pretty Royal blue, and it had a battery-operated horn, and maybe even plastic red-white-and-blue streamers dangling off the ends of the handlebars --- BUT --- GEE WHIZ, DAD --- NO horizontal bar that denotes it as a BOY’s bike!

Anyway, in those days, hauling a heavy load of groceries up and down city streets, meandering through allies, and sometimes-bumpy dirt yards usually got you a whopping big QUARTER! Twenty-five cents! Two dimes and a nickel! Three nickels and a dime! HECK, sometimes even twenty-five PENNIES! WOW! If it was a particularly heavy load, or a really long haul, and you
got a BONUS for doing a really good job, or for being particularly courteous, you might make as much as FIFTY CENTS! RARE, but honestly recorded in the annals of history!

Moving on with age, by the time I was fourteen, and now a big Explorer Scout, complete with dark green uniform, it was time to advance in business. So, after much begging and pleading, and explaining, I convinced my parents to lay out an unheard of amount of money – TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS – the necessary BOND, in order to secure my own “Bonded” paper Route, with the Baltimore News-American daily newspaper. WOW! My first business venture! Delivering papers by foot, rain or shine, sleet or snow, carrying heavy bundles with a shoulder-slung strap,
up and down steps, up and down streets and hills – THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE days a year was W-O-R-K! Every week, SUNDAY was a heavy, two-part paper, and bundles were delivered to your home, rather than your designated ‘corner’ so you could ‘STUFF’ the two sections together, and protect them from the ‘elements.’ Back in those days of “Yester-year”
THANKSGIVING DAY was the BIGGEST and HEAVIEST paper of the entire year. WHY?
Because ALL of the first Christmas season ADS were being printed! In fact, on my very first day of this experience, Thanksgiving Day, 1954, I was just sitting down to eat dinner with my family when there was a ‘knock’ at the front door. It was my Route MANAGER – some client had called because he did NOT receive his paper! Oh, well ‘Tom Turkey” will just have to be warmed up – LATER – a couple of hours AFTER delivery!
OH – almost forgot, what was a “bonded” route? It meant I had to PAY for all my newspapers, every week, up front! Then, I had to visit each and every household every Saturday morning (or sometimes Monday and Tuesday evenings, if missed on Saturday) and COLLECT! The difference between COST and COLLECTED was my GROSS PROFIT! Well Folks, this endeavor lasted about four years, and financed me through High school. By the time I SOLD my route I had DOUBLED its size, and actually had other ‘Part-time’ employees, on occasion!

Having been graduated from high school before my eighteenth birthday in August, I began my FIRST real job working night-work as a File Clerk, for the Social Security Administration, in the old CANDLER BUILDING on Market Place, in downtown Baltimore in September, 1958. GEE,
my very FIRST DEDUCTIONS from my pay, for my future Retirement – my GOLDEN YEARS! SURE! SURE!

So, about FORTY-FIVE YEARS LATER, as I approached my Sixty-Fifth birthday, that’s when I was told that: IF I RETIRED THEN, at age Sixty-Five, my benefits would be REDUCED! IF I did not continue working for an ADDITIONAL SIX MONTHS, until February 26, 2006, IT WOULD COST ME ABOUT EIGHTY DOLLARS PER MONTH! For the REST of my ever-movva-lovin’ LIFE!

So, I continued working, having told my employer that my Retirement Date, last day of working would be March, 1st, 2006 – my Dad’s Birthday! Then, because of something told to me by a fellow worker at Johns Hopkins University, I called the gentleman at my local Social Security District Office who had processed my CLAIM for benefits. This was in the last week of JANUARY. It was THEN (NOT the YEAR before) that he told me that I COULD have “Back-Dated” my application and still continue to work WHILE collecting SSA benefits! WHAT? In essence, one is able to “DOUBLE-DIP” if one is properly INFORMED, if not by your SSA office, at least maybe by the BENEFITS Specialist at your place of employment, right? HELL
NO – NEITHER bothered to explain it to me! I told him on the phone that same day: “DO IT!”
The very next morning, I personally delivered the necessary forms to the GUARD in the SSA office, with Mr. Cagle’s name on the sealed envelope!

So, after waiting several weeks and hearing nothing, I kept calling the SSA office near White Marsh and leaving voice mail messages in Mr. Cagle’s box. After no response for FIVE straight days, I called and complained, and was told by the receptionist that my claim had just been ADJUDICATED on March 14th, 2006 – just TODAY! WHAT? There was NO WAY that it was just a coincidence! I would bet money that he somehow “BURIED” my paperwork and forgot about it! Another TEN days went by, with NO word or phone call from ANYONE, nor any papers in the mail, NOR ANY BENEFIT CHECK!

So, on Friday, March 24, 2006, I called again. After registering my complaint at this GROSS MIS-SERVICE I DEMANDED to speak to his Supervisor, a Miss Moore (I think?) who was out of the office. I was assured she would get my message upon her return that day. Later that same afternoon she DID call me at home. After patiently and courteously listening to my long tirade about the SCREW-UPS, she promised me that she would review everything on Monday, when he returned to the office. She also explained that because my Birthday was on the 25th of
August, six months would be February 26th, which would have then validated my FIRST benefits check which was issued on Wednesday, March 22nd, and was MAILED TO MY OLD, WRONG ADDRESS! I had moved the end of September, 2005, and HAD PERSONALLY DELIVERED MY NEW ADDRESS, ALONG WITH 2005 W-2’s AND OTHER MEDICARE PAPERS TO THAT OFFICE!! IT THEN TOOK THE U.S.P.O. EIGHT DAYS TO CORRECTLY FORWARD MY FIRST CHECK TO ME!

Next, after NOT hearing from Miss Moore as promised, on Monday, March 27th, I left her messages to call EVERY DAY THAT WEEK – M-T-W-T-F !!! So, that Friday, March 31st,
I asked for HER Supervisor, who was ‘out of the office’ also, a Mrs. Susan Moken, who was the MANAGER! A fellow named Phil took down my message and promised he would PERSONALLY PUT IT IN HER HAND!!!

She called back at 1:30 pm, and had NO KNOWLEDGE of my situation. It took almost a half hour to relate the entire morbid story. She apologized and assured me she would look into everything, and I would need to fill out - yet another form, in order to collect for the month of January. She would check into everything, and get the form mailed to me. She DID check the computer record, and my current address, phone number, and automatic check DEPOSIT info were all correct!

It wasn’t until April 18th that I FINALLY got the FORMS! OVER TWO WEEKS! WHY? I subsequently found out that because the person she told to mail me the forms used my info from the OLD CLOSED FILE! WHAT A SYSTEM!

So, the very next day, April 19th, I left a message again for Mrs. Moken, waited over an hour, then called back at 12:45 pm. This time I talked to Mrs. Pritchard, who informed me that – Mr. Cagle NO LONGER WORKED THERE – HE RETIRED!!! So, at 1:50 pm, after making COPIES, I HAND DELIVERED the forms, inside an envelope MARKED to Mrs. Moken’s Attention to the SSA office, having to DEPOSIT THEM INTO A DROP BOX !!! WHY? BECAUSE I DIDN’T HAVE AN APPOINTMENT!!!

That same afternoon I tried FIVE times to get through the STUPID, VOICE-MAIL B-S
Phone system, and finally left a message for Mrs. Moken again. At 4:45 pm Mrs. Pritchard called to let me know that SHE got my envelope from the drop box, and would give it to Mrs. Moken
the next day, because she never came back to the office.

On Thursday, April 20th, Mrs. Moken did call me at 1:45 pm, explained and apologized for mail screw-up, she will try to expedite back payment for January, and it should NOT take a whole month! Also, she cannot change the benefit payment date because of my birthdate, and my payments would ALWAYS BE THE LAST WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH!

NEEDLESS TO SAY, I ran my mouth and ranted and raved about their STUPID government SYSTEM, and how it SCREWED OLD PEOPLE!!! I then apologized, thanked her for her help, and bid her ADIEU! OH – solely for your edification, and as a Post-Script, my BACK-DATED
Check for the month of January was finally correctly deposited into my bank account on Wednesday, May 24th – just a tad OVER A MONTH. What a Country! What a SYSTEM! WHAT A FRIGGIN’ MESS !!!

Did you know that CONGRESS has its own, hidden, quietly approved (by THEMSELVES, NO LESS) Retirement Program. Those HYPOCRITES tell us to TIGHTEN our belts, VOTE THEMSELVES RAISES, avoid REAL ISSUES, cater to SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS,
BLOW BILLIONS of our TAXPAYER DOLLARS on a USELESS WAR – and then have the AUDACITY to PRETEND that they understand! THEY ARE NOT IN THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM! THEY ARE NOT IN THE CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM!
THEY ARE IN THE: CONGRESS SCREWS AMERICANS SYSTEM!!!

Next, let us consider just a few FACTS about the American HEALTHCARE FRAUD SYSTEM!
Again, YOUR “Good Ole Boys” in CONGRESS, that YOU continue to RE-ELECT, even if they
are RED-NOSED RUM-DUMS, THIEVES CAUGHT WITH THEIR HANDS IN THE COOKIE JAR, WHO PROFOUNDLY CALL “FOUL-FOUL” – THROUGH THEIR OWN SO-CALLED SELF-POLICING “ETHICS” COMMITTEES --- THEN DO NOTHING BUT SLAP WRISTS!

Yes, Dear Reader, these so-called “representatives” who do not even fathom the meaning of the word! These ‘Public Servants” who appear in the light of day as mere “puppets” of the all-powerful world of CORPORATIONS and BIG BUCKS! Yes, they have been bantering about the “political football” of a NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ACT FOR ABOUT FORTY YEARS NOW!!! ALL TALK – AND NO ACTION! WHY? SIMPLY BECAUSE NONE OF THEM WILL EVER BE PERSONALLY AFFECTED!

THEY think and must believe that they are “ABOVE THE LAW!” WHY? Because they MAKE the LAW! If it isn’t self-serving, then “FA-GET-ABOUT-IT!

This brings us now to one of the BIGGEST BOON-DOGGLES that THEY ever created – this
CORRUPT SYSTEM that loads the coffers of RICH INSURANCE COMPANIES, as well as equally RICH PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES – and LITERALLY DRAINS THE LIFE-BLOOD OF SENIOR CITIZENS -? M-E-D-I-C-A-R-E !!!! What a catastrophic HORROR STORY!

Although THEY will tell you that it is simple, NOT complex, and it is GOOD --- THEY LIE!

Let me try to give you a real-life synopsis of what HAPPENS when you get OLD!

MEDICARE PART A --- IT IS FREE! YAY! Just IN-Patient Hospitalization –
WITH EXCLUSIONS !!!

MEDICARE PART B --- IT NOW COSTS ME $88.50 EVERY MONTH UNTIL I DIE!
BUT IT’S DEDUCTED FROM YOUR CHECK / HIDDEN!
IT HELPS PAY POOR DOCTORS WHO ARE ALLOWED
BY LAW TO “REFUSE” TO ACCEPT MEDICARE BENEFITS!
MEDICARE PART C --- HONESTLY DON’T KNOW IF IT’S BEEN INVENTED YET?
IF NOT, MAYBE IT’S RESERVED FOR STARVING
“AMBULANCE-CHASING” LAWYERS WHO ARE ‘SUE HAPPY”

MEDICARE PART D --- ONLY COSTS ME $128.50 EVERY MONTH – ‘TIL DEATH DO
US PART!” - THIS IS THE NEW IMPROVED ULTRA-COMPLEX
PRESCRIPTION PROGRAM - DESIGNED TO ‘HELP” POOR
LOWLY “PILL PEDDLERS” AND “PUSHERS!”

MEDICARE SUPPLEMENTAL --- THIS IS THE REALLY “CHEAP’ PART –
ONLY $28.00 PER MONTH – DESIGNED TO MAKE SURE THAT
SOMEBODY OTHER THAN YOU GETS YOUR MONEY!


OKAY – SOME SIMPLE MATH SAYS THAT’S ABOUT $245.00 PER MONTH, OR ABOUT $2,940 PER YEAR THAT MY COSTS OF LIVING HAVE INCREASED –
ASSUMING I DON’T EVER GET SICK!!!


Next, while still considering INSURANCE, but switching from HEALTH to LIFE, let us see what happens in the REAL WORLD –

Remember that FREE GROUP TERM INSURANCE that your EMPLOYER paid the premiums for, out of pure BENEVOLENCE , while you were WORKING? It usually was a multiple of your salary: one, one-and-a-half, or two times. Mine WAS $50,000.00 --- IT GOES BYE-BYE!
OH – you do have the GUARANTEED RIGHT TO CONVERT IT TO WHOLE LIFE INSURANCE --- IF YOU ARE A MILLIONAIRE WHO CAN AFFORD IT!

I won’t name the specific Insurance company for JHU, but the cost was PROHIBITIVE, to
say the least, so I said “let’s see what amount I MIGHT be able to afford.” Now, I must interject another TRUTH here – I SPENT six years of my life as a licensed insurance agent, and believed in it wholeheartedly. BUT circumstances and changes in family size and financial obligations, as well as career changes FORCED me to continually “whittle away’ at the amount of LIFE insurance that I had previously carried. ERGO. About a HALF MILLION of coverage dwindled down through the years to NOTHING! NIL! NADA! All I had was that meager Group term.

This brings us to the next DILEMMA – WHEN I DIE – DO I WANT MY TWO CHILDREN TO BE STUCK WITH THE EXPENSES? Hell NO! Right now, in 2006, the CHEAPEST procedure is to be CREMATED! NO CASKET, NO LARGE FUNERAL HOME EXPENSES,
NO GRAVE OPENING and CLOSING, in short, a simple, painless BONFIRE, a CHEAP URN,
And HOPEFULLY, A LARGE BAR TAB FOR AN IRISH WAKE!

So, if I don’t “hang around’ TOO LONG – then about TEN GRAND should cover this, OKAY?
After carefully checking, I discovered that my employer’s company was going to SOAK me for
$88.00 per month UNTIL I DIED = WHOLE LIFE = that’s what it MEANS! After checking with A.A.R.P. --- I was DELIGHTED to find that the PREMIUM for $10,000 was $64.00 per month, and if I only live for another TEN years, represents a cost SAVINGS of ALMOST THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS! And I think you STOP PAYING PREMIUMS AT AGE
NINETY - *** Don’t HOLD me to that, cause I don’t feel like looking it up right now ***
CHECK FIRST – BEFORE YOU BUY !!!

So – now let’s do the MATH again:

1. INCREASED HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS = $ 245.00 / MO.
2. INCREASED LIFE INSURANCE COSTS = 64.00 / MO.
3. TOTAL = $ 309.00 / MO.

ADD to this a DROP in Income . Retirement ? SAY 100.00 / MO.

NOW – IN MY “GOLDEN YEARS” - I’M “BEHIND THE EIGHT-BALL” – ABOUT $400.00
PER MONTH, OR ALMOST $5,000 PER YEAR !!! Instead of living “In The Lap of Luxury” in my “Mobile Trailer Park” like Normal, Happy-Go-Lucky “TRAILER TRASH” (see poem I wrote, posted on my Website at: www.authorsden.com/tomhyland ) -? NOW I AM STILL WAITING AND FIGHTING MY EMPLOYER’S OTHER INSURANCE COMPANY FOR THE MEAGER, MODEST LIL PENSION THEY STILL OWE ME – Tomorrow will be JUNE,
and THEY NOW OWE ME FOR FOUR MONTHS! GEE, MAYBE “THE ROCK” IS CRUMBLING?

NEXT – let us consider INCREASED ENERGY COSTS !!! Another UN-PLANNED WHOPPER!

Because I bought a Trailer using PROPANE for both HEATING and COOKING – based on estimated costs of the prior owners – WHAT A RUDE AWAKENING! Whatever was in the two hundred pound tanks when I moved in, last September was GONE in EARLY JANUARY! Woke up FREEZING on a Sunday morning! Two Hundred Gallons, or Pounds? Delivered at $2.81 PER = $ 560.00 PLUS – 1st time SPECIAL DELIVERY costs, maintenance contract, et cetera, sure BUSTED MY BUBBLE !!! Still OWE on this ONE!

Next, we have the “PRE-PLANNED, TOTALLY AVARICE-RIDDEN, FALSE, UNNECESSARY, GREAT AMERICAN RIP-OFF” we lovingly refer to as INCREASED GASOLINE PRICES! EXORBITANT – PRICE-GOUGING – MONEY-HUNGRY – SOB’S
CONTROLLING AND MANIPULATING THE “OIL” MARKET – WHY? BECAUSE THEY CAN! LET ME REPEAT THAT – BECAUSE THEY C-A-N !!! Because our “WILLY-NILLY” re-elected WAY TOO LONG CONGRESS PERSONS say: “Oh, gee! That’s terrible!
BUT WE CAN’T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT!!! Our Sponsors, our Puppet-Masters, our HUGE “Backers” – or “Special Interest Groups” – JUST WOULDN’T LIKE IT!

Along the SAME LINES, locally here in “The FREE State” MARYLAND – our BENEVOLENT BGE utility service corporation who has just barely ‘hobbled along” these
long EIGHT years or so, of “DE-Regulation” ??? GEE, WONDER HOW MANY MILLIONS
OF DOLLARS OF PROFITS WERE PAID AS “DIVIDENDS” TO THEIR SHAREHOLDERS, WHILE THEY HAVE STRUGGLED ALONG SO POORLY ??? Another question which pops up my feeble lil brain is: IN ALL THOSE YEARS, WERE ANY MINISCULE SUMS “TUCKED AWAY” SOMEWHERE ON THE BALANCE SHEETS AS: RESERVES FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT / OR MAYBE “CONTINGENCY FUNDS”? I’m just
a normal DUMMY who doesn’t even own ONE share of ANY STOCK – so, who am I to even QUESTION such GREATER INTELLIGENCE??? You know, like maybe: ENRON, or Arthur Anderson? Or whatever HIGHLY INFORMED LAWYERS or ACCOUNTANTS MIGHT SMELL A RAT ???

SO – beings I’m on BUDGET service (was $46.00 / mo.) BGE hit me in MARCH (LONG BEFORE THE 72% WAS EVEN DEBATED) with a WHOPPING INCREASE TO $110.00 /mo. – THAT, my Dear Americans, is a WHOPPING 140% INCREASE!!! When I called to complain, the lady was quite politem but couldn’t do anything to REDUCE that month, but
Was gracious enough to LOWER April’s INCREASE to ONLY $76.00 /mo. - HELL, that’s ONLY about a 72% INCREASE – What a CO-INCIDENCE! WHAT A BARGAIN!!!

Well now, Pilgrims, between the “WHO STRUCK JOHN” flowing back and forth, from the Governor’s office, to the General Assembly, to the Mayor of Baltimore’s office, and the ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL, UNDERSTANDING POWER COMMISSION – not to mention the POOR AFFRONTED BGE PAUPERS, and their Parent, or ‘AFFILIATE”?
CONSTELLATION ENERGY, then to the proposed “BUYER” company way down yonder in sunny FLORIDA – MAN, THE HORSE-SHIT HAS BEEN FLYING!!! As of TODAY’S NEWS, a local Baltimore JUDGE ruled in FAVOR of the CITY’S COMPLAINT!

SOMETIMES YOU CAN’T TELL THE “PLAYERS” WITHOUT A SCORECARD !!!!
‘POLITICAL FOOTBALL?” JUST BEFORE A MAJOR ELECTION? YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING – RIGHT?

NEXT – we have not ONLY the cost of WAR in AFGHANISTAN (a mere pittance) compared to that of IRAQ!!! You know, that place where WE WERE ONLY THERE TO GRAB THE OIL AND RUN – RIGHT? If THAT were TRUE, and WE were PUMPING it out in FREEDOM’S NAME, and SNEAKING IT HOME SOMEHOW – HOW COME THE PUMPS HERE ARE SCREWING US SO BADLY?

I’m almost done with this little BLOG, so please be patient, OK? On a more POSITIVE vein,
WHEN IS THE LAST TIME YOU HEARD ANYTHING ON THE NEWS ABOUT A “COST
OF LIVING RAISE” ??? DON’T REMEMBER? NEITHER DO I !!!

Lastly, two minor final comments, or rather – QUESTIONS !!!

What about these ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, HUGE DEALS AND PERKS THAT ALMOST ALL MAJOR CORPORATIONS CAN JUST DOLE OUT TO ALREADY OVER-PAID “FIGURE-HEADS” we call: CEO’s, and CFO’s, PRES., V.P.’s, and other assorted “DO NOTHING’S”??? Perhaps they could all be grouped together under ONE pseudonym, like:
CSTPO’s = Chief Screw The Public Officers??? My personal belief is that, just like Cutting Off the Head of a DRAGON, or SNAKE, some MAJOR SURGERY SHOULD BE SCHEDULED –P.D.Q. !!!
And LAST but never LEAST, we arrive back again to our DEARLY BELOVED, WIDELY ADMIRED, ALWAYS FAITHFUL, NEVER EVER “WISHY-WASHY” PERSONS OF HIGHEST INTEGRITY ---- that GRAND GROUP, so LOVINGLY referred to, OUR ESTEEMED LEADERS -----? DRUM ROLL --? C O N G R E S S !!!!

I recently saw a news report on PBS – Maryland Public Television, Channel 22, here locally that
Said THIS CONGRESS – WAS A “DO NOTHING” CONGRESS, THAT SPENT LESS TIME ACTUALLY IN SESSION -? SINCE 1948 -? SINCE PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN !

What a SURPRISE! What a TRAGEDY! PERHAPS SOMEDAY, IF EVER HONESTY, INTEGRITY, TRUTH, AND JUSTICE WERE EVER RESTORED TO THIS ELITE BODY OF THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT --? THEY WOULD ACTUALLY WANT TO DO GOOD FOR THE AMERICAN PUBLIC! HOW?

FOR STARTERS – CHANGE THE ENTIRE BILL PROCESSING PROCEDURES! STOP
ALL “ATTACHMENTS” OR “RIDERS” – LET EACH AND EVERY BILL PROPOSED STAND OR FALL, ON ITS OWN MERITS, WITHOUT “DEALS” – OR “SCRATCH MY BACK AND I’LL SCRATCH YOURS” – IN SHORT – QUIT THE BULL-SHIT !!!

YOU GALS AND GUYS WANT RESPECT ??? E-A-R-N I-T !!!!

OH – if I should somehow sound just a tad bitter, or skeptical, or negative, in any way ---
GET OVER IT !!! MY PERSONAL “GOLDEN YEARS” HAVE BEEN “SOLD DOWN THE RIVER” NOT UNLIKE ANY INDENTURED SERVANT, OR SLAVE !!!

WHO BY? GOVERNMENT – AT ALL POSSIBLE LEVELS !!!

GOD BLESS AMERICA !!! P-L-E-A-S-E !!!

THE “REVENUERS” WITH THEIR HEADS UP THEIR RECTUMS SURE AS HELL WON’T !!!






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