Back in the Cascade Mountains after another windy winter in the desert as the circle goes nowhere except where I’ve been. For five years I have been trying to survive the semi truck accident in 2018, struggling against the very people whose job in this country to see that criminals are punished and law abiding citizens are protected. The people who put me on the street for profit. Every year I go round and round hoping that somehow truth and justice will prevail, but at this point, my hopes for that are less than zero. In America, no matter what the television cop and lawyer shows portray, the bad guys always win and America is failing because of it.
I stopped in San Diego County where I worked hard to run a successful business, losing it to corrupt politicians and drug trafficking city police. Losing is a common thing in the most expensive part of America where everybody, except Donald Trump supporters, would like to lve, but very few can afford it. My buddy Mike, who has been a homeowner for over thirty one years, had to sell his house because he just couldn’t afford it any longer. Like many other Americans, he has dropped down the “economic ladder” due to circumstances out of his control. While news headlines and politicians of a booming economy and jobs for everyone, the reality is that many Americans are suffering under the unrelenting weight of corporate greed the pushes the cost of nearly everything past the boundaries of the average American budget. Many American jobs no longer pay enough to meet the constantly rising cost of living.
Back here in the Pacific Northwest, the mini-mansion building boom continues. Porsches and Mercedes are as common as pickup trucks. The price of housing is booming, a la 1990’s Southern California, but the money that’s buying homes around here does not come from area residents. There are hardly any jobs here that would pay enough for even the lowest rent place in the area. Most of the available rental units are short-term, like Air B & Bs. Local businesses are closed several days a week because employees do not make enough money to live working there. This area is on the front line of the end of American society. If you are involved with a police officer, or appear in court, is that police officer a member of some political “constitutional” organization, making up the laws as he personally sees fit? Police officers can kill you without any reason or justification. Are both of you following the same set of laws? There are already “Constitutional” sheriffs. As always, justice in America is determined by the number of bullets in the law enforcement weapon. What about the hallowed halls of justice? Is the judge fair and impartial, or is he there to deliver decisions for those who are stuffing his pockets with cash? Is he passing judgments based on a political agenda?
I had my annual physical at the rural VA clinic. It was an in-office telemed session where a physically present nurse works with a doctor(in my case a physicians assistant) to perform a routine physical. I have to have a physical once a year to get prescription medicine which I need to stay alive since I was sprayed with commercial pesticide or herbicide while riding my bike. As always, the staff at the small town VA clinic are professional and courteous, but, aside from the prescription I got for lung damage from five years ago, my health has gotten worse. The damage to my body from the semi accident is getting worse. I’m starting to fear I may not be able to walk because of the damage to my hips. It is extremely painful most of the time and the pain wakes me up several times each night and very morning. I have not had a pain-free nights sleep in over five years. No treatment from the VA so this will continue until I am completely crippled.
The VA makes a big deal of veteran homelessness and suicide, but don’t appear to anything that would make a difference. Even though I’ve mentioned it several times over the years, the fact that I’ve been homeless five years seems to have made an impression. I repeated to the doctor about the accident and how I wound up homeless because I obeyed the law. I got the impression that he did not believe my story and recommended a psycologist. I declined because I’m not mentally ill, I got fucked over by insurance companies. I only had thirty minutes with the doctor and I walked out of the clinic no better, and on my way to getting worse when I walked out.
It doesn’t matter that much. After the questionable medical “treatment” I recieved in the ER following the semi accident, my trust in the Healthcare profession is low. I don’t believe my well-being is not a priority, like profit is. The VA is the government. It is my faith and belief in the government that caused me to be homeless so my trust in the VA is pretty low. I appreciate my hearing aids and any treatment or medication I do recieve, but no more vaccinations, injections or surgery. If I get sick and die, I die. I’m not that far off. I don’t expect any help from anybody and that’s exactly what I get.
Living outdoors is not easy and it’s especially hard on a seventy two year old man who’s been run over by a semi truck. The past five years have taken all my worldly possessions and comforts, but it has given me clarity and peace of mind. At this point, the majority of the things I need to do in my life are done. I’ll be checking out sooner, rather than later. So if the cops manage my “veteran suicide” or the drug cartel takes me out, or if I die on the side of the road, I’ll only miss a few years of life. But who the fuck cares about me? Even if they gave ten million dollars because my life was destroyed, what am I going to do with the money as a crippled old man?
As I have mentioned throughout this blog and website, my experience tells me that the United States, as we know it today, is quickly coming to an end. I do not believe America will survive the 2024 presidential election. I believe there will be chaos, I believe there will be violence. I am already one of the casualties of this war. So are other homeless veterans, elderly, mentally ill and the millions who lost everthing to corrupt “insurance” companies, merely fronts for organized crime. They will be herding the dirty homeless people into the gas chambers soon enough. Or whatever the updated method is for the twenty first century.
So now I think, will I die first, or will the country I live in and maybe the entire planet, go first? Until then, it’s dog eat dog.
1-20-2025 ronbosroad.com website is online. Links updated.