Katie is a 5’1” petite girl with large
breasts that may give her back problem when she’s older. At 31, she’s doing well in this department as
she hasn’t had many problems with her back.
Her father works in construction and enjoys exotic travelling. He recently went to Palawan to enjoy the
Philippines and swim in the crystal blue water.
Although Katie likes travelling, the Palawan jungle doesn’t really
interest her and she stays at home working a job that allows her to make ends
meet. She receives a phone call from her
mother and she answers it. “Hey Katie”
her mom starts with a solemn tone.
“HI mom”
Based on her voice, Katie
already knew this is not good news. Her
mom sounds like she’s been crying. Her
mom says, “I don’t know how to say this except to just say it. Your father went out hiking and I guess
something bit him. He has dengue fever.
I don’t know what to do. Our
insurance company won’t pay for him to be transported back to the US so I’m
looking into flying out there.”
Katie was crushed. She and her dad were really close and now she
was unsure if she would ever see him again.
She sat down and replied, “Holy shit mom, I want to go too.”
“I know, I know but let me go
first to see if it’s necessary. There’s
not much I can do here.”
“Why don’t we just pay for the
Med-Evac here?”
“It’s a little outside of our
price range.”
“It’s dad, we can go in to debt
if his life depends on it.”
“Trust me honey, I know but it’s
not really something that is affordable even with going into debt. Don’t worry about it, let me handle it.”
“Well, I’m sure that the people
in the Philippines see this shit all the time.
They know what they’re doing” she commented reassuringly though she
knows she has no basis to say what she’s saying.
When Katie got off the phone,
she was in the mood to drown away her problems.
She called a friend of hers and said, ‘I need to drink.’”
“Cool, let’s go.”
They went to a bar named Deagan’s
in Lakewood, Ohio as it wasn’t very packed and she could talk. Katie let her friend know what was going on
and her friend was very sympathetic but there wasn’t much she could say except
offer support. Her friend asked, “Is
there anything I can do to help?”
“Do you know any rich people or
someone that owns a helicopter company that can go bring him here?”
“No, sorry I don’t”
“Then coming out with me is the
best way you can help me.”
“Well, I did that.”
“Yea, anyway, let’s talk about
something else; I came here to take my mind off things.”
“Alright, did you see the
Democratic debates last night?”
“Yea, I got to say Biden looked
confused and lost. Then his closing
statement at the end giving that website Joe30330, why did he choose that
number?”
“Yea, no clue. It’s not even his website. He got his own site address wrong.”
“Not to say shit about older
people, but when you’re older, you need to look crisp and not out of
touch. The default position in people’s
mind is you’re just an old man that has had reality pass them by. Basically you need to prove that you’re not
that guy. Biden didn’t do that. He just had weird meandering answers.”
“I know right? De Blasio wasn’t much better. I mean yea, most people just say tax the
wealthy but when he started saying that Trump is the real socialist and that
he’s a socialist for the wealthy. That
doesn’t even make sense?”
“I mean, I think he may have a
point about the wealthy not paying their fair share so ‘taxing the hell out of
them’ as he said is something every Democrat says but yea, you’re right, the
whole ‘I know you are but what am I’ defense is cute when you’re like 6 but in
a Democratic debate, you just sound ridiculous.”
“I do have to say that Biden
looked good when he was commenting to Gillibrand”
“Oh when she tried to call him a
misogynist?”
“Yea, the whole, “Why did you
say when a woman works outside the home, it deteriorates the family?”
“At first I thought she made a
good point until Biden fired back that both his wives worked and all the work
he’s done for equal pay. Usually when
you have someone on the defensive talking about their record, it doesn’t work
but when he brought up that he and Gillibrand were standing side by side at
Syracuse fighting for women’s rights and the only thing that changed is that
she’s running for president, that was really powerful. Unfortunately, he used up all his energy in
that one rebuttal”
“I’m actually getting a little
tired of all this name calling. Everything
is racist or misogynistic these days, it’s ridiculous and it waters down the
word.”
“Oh, I agree. Gillibrand was a moron. She was projecting too. Talking about how the Republicans want to
take your healthcare. No, they don’t,
they just want to leave it to private insurance companies. Given what I’ve just been through, I’m not
sure I really like private health insurance to begin with but you certainly
can’t say that the Republicans are trying to steal it. It just has no basis in reality.”
“There weren’t many good parts but
what was your favorite part?”
“When Gabbard destroyed Kamala
Harris. Obviously, we live in Cleveland,
Ohio and not California so I’m not sure how much of this is true but Harris
didn’t defend herself so I’m guessing it was.
She was like ‘oh you’re running on legalizing drugs and how you think
cops are bad, well you’re a prosecutor so you work with cops all the time. You put 1,500 people in jail for
marijuana-related crimes.’ Yea, you’re
really in favor of legalizing drugs that’s why you so strictly enforced drug
laws.”
“She wasn’t even done, Gabbard
accused Harris of keeping people in jail beyond their sentences so she could
get cheap labor and apparently she blocked evidence that would have freed an
innocent man from death row and fought against tax veil systems affecting poor
people.”
“Yea that was pretty devastating
especially because she had no response.
I hear now California is sealing her prosecution records so her response
was to make it impossible for people to check the accusations themselves. Gee, that doesn’t sound suspicious at all”
Katie switched to a heavily sarcastic voice at the end.
‘Yea, I hear that Gabbard has a
deal with Biden for a cabinet position.”
“Deal or not, she did a good job
trying to take out Harris. I guess we’ll
find out from the polls but it had an effect.”
“So after two rounds of debates,
who do you think is winning?”
“Well, there’s like 26
candidates but the way I see it, there’s three categories. You have the extreme liberal lane, a moderate
lane and then an outside lane that can’t really be defined. The liberal line I have to say Elizabeth Warren
has taken that crown from Sanders. The
moderate lane I guess is still Biden despite an awful performance but the other
moderates are at like 1% in the polls.
The ‘other’ lane is interesting because it seems to change the
most. I actually think it is Gabbard or
maybe Andrew Yang.”
“No Buttigieg or Beto?”
“No, they’re finished. Well, I don’t want to say finished but they
really dropped this round. It’ll take a
lot for them to be competitive again.
Biden better watch out. If
Gabbard made a deal with him, she may just become a worthy opponent and not
need the cabinet position.”
“Maybe Gabbard will return to
favor and give one to Biden.”
Katie smiled, “That would be
awesome. Have a man need a job from a
woman for a change.”
A man sat down next to Katie and
ordered a drink. He had gotten there
when they started talking about Gabbard’s dismantling of Harris. He was alone and kept to himself. Unbeknownst to Katie, this man was about to
put her convictions to the test on the issue most prevalent in her mind.
Larissa was a bar tender at
Daegan’s in Lakewood, Ohio. At 31, she
was one of the older bar tenders but she could still keep up with the young
early 20 girls. She was the daughter of
a very successful defense lawyer so didn’t really need the money too much. Due to her upbringing, she was constantly
around wealthy people and one of her older brother’s friends was in town from
New York. Although he and her brother had
a falling out, she always looked at him as an older brother. They recently reconnected and she found out
that he had become a billionaire and since he was never very good with women
and doesn’t want to get married, he offered women extreme sums of money in
exchange for sex. He had strange
morality though because he never just gave them a cash or check, instead he
paid a bill they had. Since his sex
drive wasn’t very large, he could afford to wait. When Larissa heard two girls talking and one
of them needed a medical transport from the Philippines to America, she went on
break and called him. She started, “Hey
Larry, it’s Larissa”
“Hey Larissa, how are you?”
“I’m good. Are you busy right now? I found a girl that may meet your
criteria. I don’t really know your type
but she’s tiny with long black hair and kind of cute if you like that kind of
thing.”
“it’s worth checking out. Thanks”
“No problem”
Larry came to the bar and
Larissa signaled him where to sit so he’d be next to Katie. He ordered a drink and Larissa gave him a
knowing look asking if he approved.
Larry gave a slight nod and Larissa took her drink order. Normally she wouldn’t do what she was about
to do since she worked on tips but she knew that any tip she lost, Larry would
make up for. She stated, “You better be
careful, Larry, these girls are with De Blasio about how you rich people don’t
pay your fair share.”
Both Katie and her friend smiled
and turned to look at Larry who was also smiling. He responded to Larissa, “Well, if you lived
in New York as long as I have, you’d realize how De Blasio caused that city to
decline drastically and wouldn’t really trust anything he said.”
Katie spoke up, “Oh no, we
weren’t defending De Blasio, we think he’s an idiot too but, you know it’s very
common to talk about taxing the rich. A
lot of people say that the rich don’t pay their fair share”
“What do you think would be
fair?”
Katie and her friend
contemplated that for a second and Katie said, “I don’t know, maybe like a
third of what they make or something?”
“That would be nice considering
rich people normally pay like 50% of what they make.”
“Yea, if they have crappy
accountants”
“Evidently there’s an epidemic
of that because the top 20% of Americans pay 87% of the income tax for the
entire country.”
“What’s the top 20%?”
“Those who make $ 150,000 or
more.”
“Yea, but don’t’ they make like
99% of the money?”
“Try 52%”
“Oh, so the people that only get
52% of the pool of money have to pay 87% of the taxes?”
“Yup”
“I thought Trump gave the rich
the biggest tax cut.”
“He gave everyone a tax
cut. The rich got the smallest tax
cut. It did have the desired effect as
the upward mobility of people became easier and more incentivized so you had
more people moving up into those brackets.
Last year, 84% of the money was paid by the top 20% so even as people
move up, they are paying a higher burden with their increased incomes.”
“Why don’t people say this
stuff?”
“The Democrats control the
culture. They have the media, Hollywood
and academia. If you can’t get it from
those three sources, where do you get your information from?”
“Well we have the internet”
“Google, YouTube, Facebook and
Twitter are in congressional testimony right now since they’ve been caught
red-handed suppressing conservative thought.”
“So how do you know?”
“You have to really dig deep and
go to websites and get specific data you’re looking for. It’s not really that the mainstream media
lie, it’s that they omit. Test
everything you hear. You hear that rich
people don’t make their fair share, look up how much they pay and see if you
think it’s fair.”
“Alright, so you’re saying
Trump’s tax cuts hurt the rich.”
“No, I’m saying it helped
everyone. Take the other side of the
spectrum. It used to be that the bottom
60% of the income earners paid 2% of the income tax that the government receives”
“That makes sense. They shouldn’t pay too much.”
“Now they pay 0%. Keep in mind that they make 27% of the
revenue, not the 1% that the deadly triangle will have you believe”
“Deadly triangle?”
“Hollywood, academia and media”
“Alright so what do you have to
make per year to be in the bottom 60% of the population?”
“86,000”
“That’s not a bad income!”
“And you pay no net taxes.”
“Well, hopefully Trump will have
those stats when he’s debating whoever the Democratic candidate is.”
“Ehhh, most people don’t like
percentages and numbers. I’m kind of a
dork so I like facts and data”
“I’m a nerd like that too” Katie
replied with a large smile showing blindingly white teeth.
Katie’s friend gave her a sever
e look. Katie knew what she was getting at
and she glared back at her as if to say ‘no’
Katie’s friend moved her head forward as if to insist but Katie still
said no so her friend chimed in, “So, what do you think about healthcare?”
“I’m in favor of sick people
getting healthy but I don’t think that’s what you meant. If you mean paying for it, government is
never the answer. The reason why costs
are so high now is because of government”
“What do you mean by that?”
“Well, we’re going to have to go
through a history lesson. Long story
short, the government spends more money on health care than any other
sector. Due to this, hospitals don’t
need patients to make their money because it’s supplemented by the
government. This makes them less willing
to work with patients for costs and leads to all these people bitching about
doctor’s bedside manner. This is true
any time that the government is involved.
Third party paying systems don’t work.
Think about it, if you were given money to spend on someone else that
you didn’t know, would you care about the quality or the cost of whatever
you’re buying?”
Katie’s friend thought this
over, “Well, I’m not paying for it so who cares how much it costs. Since I don’t get to enjoy it, do I know this
person that I’m choosing the product for?”
“No”
“Then fuck them, I don’t care
how good it is.”
“And that’s the problem with
third party payer effects. The
government is paying for healthcare for people they don’t know. They don’t care how much it costs because
it’s not their money; it’s the tax payer money and they don’t care about the
quality because they don’t know the person being taken care of.”
“You know what, let’s hear the
‘long story’ I got nowhere to go”
Larry chuckled, “Alright, so in
1965, the government introduced Medicare and Medicaid. What they do is underpay doctors for elderly
care, which has a high demand and higher burden of care than younger people
because old people get sick more.”
“That seems obvious”
“Right, so every time a doctor
or hospital treats a Medicare or Medicaid patient, they lose money. They need to keep the lights on so they have
to overcharge everyone else. That’s how
you have high costs for healthcare. You have to overcompensate because the
majority of patients you see are underpaying.
To put numbers to it, healthcare costs after 1965 rose by twice as much
as the consumer price index and inflation.”
“Damn, but wouldn’t people not
vote in the politicians who are responsible for their shitty healthcare?”
“If you get shitty care, who do
you blame?”
“The doctor or hospital”
“There you go; so no”
“Oh, but isn’t it their fault
because they’re providing the care?”
“If you take away someone’s
motivation, it’s hard for them to be motivated to give the best care. Think about anything else. Do rich kids work really hard if they get a
job separate from their parents or are they more inclined to quit or not care
when the work gets tough because they don’t need the paycheck because their
trust funds will set them for life?”
“I see your point.”
“Why would a doctor be any different?”
“Ok, but pharmaceutical
companies make all this money by making their products really high.”
“Well that’s also the
government’s fault”
“Wait, no way. I took an economics class in college. It’s an inelastic market. That means…”
“The demand for it doesn’t
really change based on the increase in cost, yes I know.”
“So, how do you get around
that?”
“Did you also learn in your
economics class what happens if you increase the supply?”
“The cost goes down.”
“Right, so the FDA regulates the
safety and efficacy of drugs”
“Well, you don’t want bad drugs
killing people.”
“I actually don’t know why
not. First of all, the FDA doesn’t do a
very good job determining the safety of things anyway. If a drug company makes a drug that kills
people, they’ll get bad PR and people won’t trust the company. Due to this, there’s no incentive for a drug
company to make a garbage drug. Now,
let’s ignore that point because I understand how it scares people without a
regulatory body for the safety of a drug. Efficacy, on the other hand, makes no
sense. Let doctors figure out how
effective a drug is and how long to apply it.
We take away the efficacy part of the FDA mandate, then it won’t take 20
years for a drug to go to market. When
drugs get on the market quicker, then what do you have?”
“More supply, so the price gets
driven down.”
“There you go. By the way, Trump is the only president that
had drug prices go down since 1965 so he’s doing well on that front too.”
“So the problem with government
isn’t just the third party payer system, it’s that they suppress supply?”
“Yes, insurance companies pay
doctors now. That’s still third party
but the insurance company is a better third party payer than the government
because people can choose their insurance company but you have to pay the
government its taxes. You still have the
effect, which is why healthcare is so high but the government is aiding in
making the problem worse.”
“Because it takes 20 years to
get a drug to market”
“That’s just the tip of the
iceberg. Remember our premise, increase
supply decrease price. The government
encourages limited enrollment in medical school. Since they now pay for education, they tell
the medical schools not to accept that many applicants. That’s why it’s so hard to get into medical
school now. This leads to a shortage of
doctors, which drives the cost up because you have limited supply and high
demand.”
Katie’s friend laughed, “It does
keep coming back to the same basic principle”
“Yea, so now we know why drugs
and doctors are so expensive but the government didn’t stop there. You can’t just open a hospital if you have
the funding and the land. You have to
get a ‘certificate of need’ from the government. They don’t issue many of those so not too
many hospitals can be opened.”
“Which is why you have to wait
so long when you go into an ER”
“Bingo, this is called
monopolistic competition. It’s also why
diamonds, the strongest mineral on Earth, is so plentiful yet so
expensive. De Beers keeps an obscene
amount of diamonds in their vaults so it doesn’t flood the market and drive the
prices down. Government does the same
thing with medical care. They own the
monopoly so they limit the supply to keep the prices high.”
“Why though?!” Katie’s friend
yelled out throwing her hands up
“Power. Government likes having power and if you
control the industry that cares for the most vulnerable people, then you can
exploit that power. Like you said, it’s
probably the most inelastic industry because people will pay almost anything if
they’re dying. If, however, you didn’t
have the government involved, then they would have to lower their prices
because obviously people do have some limit to what they can spend. You could really want to pay to keep you
alive but you literally can’t afford it because the price tag isn’t possible
for you to afford. That means you have
to bring your cost down. Now, they don’t
have to do that, they can just be like ‘sorry sucks for you.”
“So what’s the solution? I mean if government and insurance wasn’t
involved and it was direct pay from patient to doctor, the doctor could still
charge a lot because of the inelastic market and poor people wouldn’t be able
to pay it. Do we just not let the poor
have access to medical care?”
“No, reverse the taxes”
“What do you mean?”
“Rather than use tax payer money
to help poor people get medical care, give a tax write-off to the doctor or
hospital if they do pro-bono work.
That’s how the legal system works”
“Then doctors don’t pay as much
in taxes.”
“Only if they help the poor”
“I’m not sure about that?”
“What’s the difference? Instead of having doctors and hospitals pay
taxes to the government and hope they don’t spend it on something else before
it cycles back to poor people’s health, have the money that would have gone to
the government, go to the poor person.
It’s like the government already paid for it, they just never had access
to the money in the first place.”
“That’s actually a very good
idea. I mean, there’s probably some
problem I’m overlooking but it’s certainly worth a shot. I mean that’s how charity works and Americans
give more to charity than anyone else because of it.”
“There you go.”
“Anyway, this topic is very
relevant right now because we have the exact situation that we just described”
she articulated with a grin and a look at Katie.
Katie rolled her eyes and
declared, “No, stop” then turned to Larry, “Don’t listen to her, she’s had too
much to drink”
Her friend was undeterred, “No,
I’m fine. Tell me something, the bartender
said you were rich, is that true?”
“Yes”
“Well, let me just tell you
what’s going on. I’m not going to ask
you how rich but right now my beautiful friend here is in a situation. Her dad is very sick and is fighting for his
life in a Philippine hospital right now.
She is willing to go into debt to get her dad to America to be treated
since she doesn’t know if she trusts jungle doctors with her dad’s life. A med-evac from the Philippines to here is
still too pricey that even though she’s willing to go into debt, her family
can’t afford it. Can you help her?”
Katie chimed in with her head
down, “Don’t listen to her. I’m not
asking you for anything. I know we just
met and you’re probably used to people asking you for money all the time. I’m sorry for my friend. I’m sure that the doctors there are used to
this shit so we’ll just trust them. I’m
sure it’ll be fine”
“Sounds like you’re not very
convinced. I don’t blame you. Asian hospitals don’t have access to the
newer and more expensive technologies to treat.
I’m not interested in handouts though.
I don’t do things for free. The
question is, how badly do you want to have your dad treated in America?”
Katie’s friend smiled widely and
glared at Katie. Katie’s head perked up
and she seemed confused. “What are you
saying? I mean, I’m not looking for hand
outs; it’s just an odd question. He’s my
dad; I love him of course I would do anything to make sure he’s treated
here. The Cleveland Clinic has been the
best cardiology hospital for like the last 25 years. He has dengue fever, which affects the heart
so yea, I want him here.”
“Be careful about the phrase,
‘do anything’ it’s very often overused and people rarely mean it.”
“What do you mean?”
“Are you married?”
Katie’s eyes darted back and
forth as her body tensed. She had a
feeling she knew where this was going. “Yes”
“Well then that’s going to make
this offer a little more scandalous”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, first I got to make sure
that this is even feasible. I assume it
would be. I’ll call over to the
Philippines, see if your dad is even safe to travel but if he is and the only
issue is money, I’d be willing to pay for the transfer if I can have one night
with you with full access to your body.”
Katie’s complexion became pale
and she coughed and took a long swig of her drink. She stuttered and finally managed, “Ummm, I’m
not sure what I’m agreeing to.”
“I will not hurt you or leave
any permanent marks. You will be just as
beautiful when we’re done as you are now.
You yourself won’t need any medical attention when we’re done. Before we do this, we’re going to get tested
for STD’s. If you’re not clean, the deal
is off. You will sign a consent form so
you can’t accuse me of sexual assault as I know how women consider everything
rape nowadays. Hell, some people may
call it that just for the offer.”
“Well I’m not one of them and I
am clean” Katie snapped back angrily.
“Then there’s no problem on my
end. You’d be willing to go through the
tests and sign the consent form?”
“Yea, that’s the easy part. The thing I’m thinking about is what I’m
consenting to.”
“I understand, take your
time. You don’t have to answer now”
“Actually, I kind of do
considering that my dad is fighting for his life right now.”
Larry pondered this and nodded,
“Well, I’m just saying you don’t have time pressure from me.”
Katie took a deep breath and
gave her friend a dirty look. The friend
wasn’t sure how she felt. On one hand,
she got what she wanted but on the other it put her friend in a tough
situation. Katie buried her head in her
hands and announced, “Yea, I’ll do it”
Larry pulled out his phone and
called his assistant to arrange it.
Katie still had her head in her arms and said, “Don’t bother, my mom
already looked into it. Just call
her. Tell her you know me and you’re
willing to pay for it.”
“You want me to call her?”
“Please, I just have to process
this and I can’t deal with my mom’s question on how I found you. She’ll ask and I don’t like lying to my
mom. Can you just do this? Pretend you’re from some organization or
something.” Katie hadn’t looked at him
the entire time but did push her phone that was on the bar over to him with her
thumb on the sensor to unlock it.
Larry shrugged his shoulders and
grabbed the phone. He inquired, “What’s
your mom’s name?”
“Kelly”
Larry went into her contacts and
found ‘mom.’ he dialed the number and he heard, “Katie, what’s up? I’m trying to book a flight right now.”
“Hi Kelly, my name is Larry, I
work for a non-profit organization that helps get American citizens who are
injured abroad back to America to receive medical care.”
“I had no idea there were
organizations that do that.” She said with much trepidation in her voice, “why
do you have my daughter’s phone? Is she
okay?”
“She’s fine, I’m with her now.
She told me about your predicament with your husband and we’d like to help.”
“How much would that cost?”
“I’ve been asked by your
daughter not to reveal the cost. She has
taken care of it. My organization is a
start up so we’re not very keen on the logistics quite yet. Katie mentioned that you already looked into
it so if you let me know the company that you were going to use to transport
your husband, I can arrange the transport through them and just pick up the
bill.”
There was a long pause on the
phone. “I’m sorry, I don’t know what to
say. I’m speechless. Thank you so much. Yea….wait….hold on, I got the information
right here. I can’t thank you enough for
doing this but just so you know it’s ridiculously expensive.”
“Capital I have Ma’ame, it’s
logistics I need to work on.”
“Truth is, I could do this
myself but time is of the essence so since they’re already familiar with the
situation, I figure it’s quicker to just do it through your person rather than
start from scratch.”
“No, I agree. I found it.” Kelly gives all the information
to Larry and Larry copies it into his phone.
“Alright got it, thank you”
“No sir, thank you.”
“Our pleasure.”
He hung up the phone and Katie
looked at him for the first time and uttered, “Thank You”
“No problem” Larry said with a
smile. He called the transport company
and told them to prepare the transfer but he would need to transfer the funds
tomorrow.”
Larry looked at Katie after he
said ‘tomorrow’ as if asking if she wanted to do it tonight. Katie nodded understanding the implication
but still had her face buried in her arms.
She couldn’t believe her life had come to this. Katie’s friend was rubbing her back
comforting her constantly questioning if she had done the right thing. Larry’s next call was to a doctor that would
be willing to open their office to do the test.
He agreed and Larry told Katie, “I’m ready when you are. You can call it off whenever you want. No obligation but you can understand that I’m
not making the transfer until you fulfill your end of the bargain.”
Katie sat up and gave him a
dirty look, “Yes, I get that but here’s the problem. How do I know you’re not going to fuck me
over and cancel it anyway?”
“I confess you don’t. It’s a fucked up situation. I’m asking you to trust me when I am
admitting I don’t trust you. They have
prepared the med-evac chopper. There is
an opening at the Cleveland clinic ready to receive him. Everything is in place. There is a penalty fee if I cancel as the
hospital and the transport company have reserved the helicopter and bed, which
costs money. I will lose money if I
don’t carry through so I kind of have to.”
“No, you don’t have to. What if you determine that I wasn’t worth
that much?”
“Don’t get self conscious. There was nothing in our negotiation that
said performance matters. You are going
to let me do whatever I want to you so long as I don’t leave permanent marks or
hospitalize you, that was the agreement.
If what I tell you to do doesn’t pleasure me that’s on me not you.”
“Alright, let’s go get the STD tests;
I want to get this over with.”
Katie said good bye to her
friend and Larry offered to pay their tab but Katie insisted that she pay for
herself. Her friend wasn’t too happy
with it but she felt guilty for getting her involved in this situation so
didn’t say anything. Katie went into
Larry’s car and they drove to the doctor’s office. All the tests came back clean and Larry
handed her the contract. Katie read it
over and looked up, “When did you have this drafted up”
“The bartender is a friend of
mine. She called me to come when she
overheard your conversation. My lawyer
drafted it when I was on my way to you and I had it delivered.”
“So, this had nothing to do with
my friend making the offer?”
“No, that was actually a nice
surprise. It helped me transition to the
offer better.”
“So I guess I shouldn’t be mad
at her.”
“Even if she was responsible,
are you mad? I mean, you don’t have to
take the deal. I know you feel pressured
because of your dad but I mean there’s not really a gun to your head. If you’re mad at her that means you’re not
fully consenting.”
“I am fully consenting so long
as you’re not bullshitting me!”
“Oh I see, so you’re not mad at
her yet. You’re going to be if I am
lying to you.”
“Exactly”
“That makes sense.”
Katie laughed nervously and
shook her head. She got back into
Larry’s car and he took her back to his hotel room. Katie came in and Larry immediately started
stripping. Katie blurted out, “Wait, can
we like talk first? I know we have been
but I mean you were talking more to my friend than to me. I just feel really fucking dirty if I just
walk in here, say nothing and sleep with you.”
“What do you want to talk
about?” her queried while sitting on the bed in his boxers.
“Well, you seem to know a lot
about finance and Trump. I want to get
off about talking about taxes and talk about Trump’s economy with regard to
wages. You said that with all the upward
mobility, more people are moving up to the over 150K mark. Is it still growing or is it stagnating like
the news claims?”
“Well, I’m glad our talk has
made you doubt the news because they do mislead you. So, in 2017, employee compensation rose by
4.5%. This is after adjusting for inflation.”
“Alright, that’s pretty good.”
“In 2018, it was 5%”
“So it’s growing faster”
“Well, we don’t get the end of
the year numbers till the end of the year but yes 2018 it grew faster than 2017. As of May, the pace is at 5.3% according to
the Wall Street Journal.”
“So this year is looking pretty
good too?”
“Yea, employee compensation has
gone up $150 billion more in the first six months of 2019. That’s already higher than all of 2016 in
Obama’s last year.”
“So, it’s not that Trump
inherited a roaring Obama economy?”
“No, Trump has blown all of
Obama’s economic prediction out of the water.
How do you destroy expectations when you reverse every policy someone
has?”
“That makes sense”
“Since, I don’t like blanket
statements without the numbers to back it up.
Compensation increased 4.2% more during Trump’s first two years than
2015 and 2016.”
“I guess you’re a Trump
supporter”
“I go by the facts but yes the
facts are pretty good for the President.
The national debt and not building the wall yet leads me to be a little
concerned but that’s beside the point.”
“Alright, thank you for
answering my question.”
“Are you ready now?”
“Yea”
Katie stripped herself of her clothes. She started making out with Larry and then
pulled away. She said, “I really don’t
want to feel like a whore, can you hold me from behind while we do this.”
Larry was a little confused by
this. Katie was married so any sign of
affection he thought would be adverse to her but he agreed. They went to the bed and Katie lied on her side
as Larry lied next to her, put one hand over her waist resting it on her
stomach and his other hand under her neck as an extension of the pillow as he
gently eased his penis inside her vagina from behind. To his surprise, Katie wrapped her legs
around Larry’s calves and pulled herself back towards him giving Larry’s penis
more torque to penetrate her. Larry’s
hand that was on Katie’s stomach explored her entire body from her legs to her
breasts. Katie rolled toward Larry so
she was on top keeping her legs wrapped around Larry’s and letting gravity aid
in the penetrations. Larry kissed her
neck and groped her body with both hands as Katie moaned in pleasure. She soon climaxed and Larry rolled over so
that he was back on top. He pulled out
of Katie and slid his body down straddling her right leg. He licked the top of her butt and sprinkled
salt on it. He poured a tequila shot
into a shot glass and put the shot glass in Katie’s butt. He sucked the salt off and clenched the shot
glass in his jaws before downing the contents down his throat. He repeated this with her left butt
cheek. He got up and put a condom on and
said, “Roll over”
Katie rolled onto her back and Larry
mounted her wrapping her legs around his waist.
He humped her as he caressed her legs and sucked on her breasts. It didn’t take long for Larry’s body to
collapse onto Katie’s petite frame as he achieved orgasm.
Larry rolled onto his side
frustrated with himself that he finished so early. Although Katie didn’t have a very aesthetic
butt, he still would’ve loved penetrating it.
Katie was the first to speak, “Have you followed this Trump collusion
stuff and investigating the investigators?”
“I have”
“What do you think?”
“That’s a broad question. I’ll just stick to the current stuff. I’m pissed Jim Comey isn’t going to be
prosecuted”
“Why if there’s no evidence then you
can prosecute”
“There is evidence. The Inspector General Harrowitz recommended
to prosecute because he thinks he had enough evidence. Barr said no.”
“Why did the Attorney General say
‘no’”
“He didn’t think they had enough
evidence to prove that Comey intended to violate the law.”
“Ah yes, intent is always the tricky
part.”
“The same crap happened with the
Hillary Clinton scandal. They had all
this evidence but then didn’t prosecute. There’s just no justice in this
country. Democrats are never prosecuted
but Republicans always are.”
“Like who?”
“Flynn, Papadopoulos, Manafort,
Roger Stone”
“Right”
“Hold on” Larry grabbed his phone
and called the medical transport company and transferred the funds. He got a confirmation that it went through
and they were arranging the transport immediately. He kept the phone on speaker so that Katie
could hear.
Katie didn’t react; she felt that
thanking him was a little much considering he caused her to cheat on her
husband. She continued, “Well the report
is going to come out in a couple weeks.”
“And I’m sure it’ll be damning but
anything short of prosecution is unacceptable to me at this point.”
“Do you know anything about this
five page memo that the FBI Director Wray won’t hand over?”
“Yes, it’s by a state department
official named Kathleen Kavalec. It
severely compromised the integrity of the man who wrote the dossier, the
document that started this whole thing, Christopher Steele. 10 days after the memo was sent, the FBI told
the FISA court under oath that they had no derogatory information about Steele
but that memo says otherwise.”
“How do you know? He didn’t turn it over so we don’t know
what’s in it.”
“The official memo no but Kavalec’s
handwritten notes are not classified and we can see that. We know that it’s bad because Wray wants to
wait two years before releasing it.”
“What difference does that make?”
“If Trump loses, then the new
president can just cover it up just like the planned on Hillary Clinton doing
if she won. That’s why they weren’t
careful. In two years, Trump might not
be president.”
“So what do the notes say?”
“Well she was checking travel logs
as Steele was talking about Russians coming in and out. Steele said that the payment was done through
the Russian embassy in Miami. Kavalec
notes that there is no Russian embassy in Miami. There’s one sentence in the travel logs that
is redacted. It’s right around notes
about Cohen so I’m pretty sure that she found out Cohen had never been to
Prague. The other guys he mentioned, she
has their flight numbers and dates of travel but then conveniently in the
middle of all this travel log verification is a redacted portion. If that says that Cohen had never been to
Prague then they lied to the FISA court when they said that he had based on
Steele’s dossier which said the same thing.
Knowingly giving false information to a FISA court is illegal and those
memos prove he knowingly did so.”
“Well you don’t know what it says so
you’re just speculating”
“True but later Steele writes a memo
about his dossier that says he’s not sure where the meeting with Cohen
happened. The dossier says Prague, how
did he conveniently forget where when he wrote the memo about it after talking
to Kavalec?”
“I don’t know”
“Kavalec may not be innocent in all
this. She may have coached him on how
not to contradict himself and pointed it out not to help the FBI to tell them
that Steele isn’t a reliable source but to help them get their story straight.”
“Holy shit; that would be very
scandalous”
“Now you know why the FBI is keeping
that memo hush hush and pretending it’s the equivalent of the nuclear football. Trump should fire Wray for insubordination
and release the memo yesterday.”
“Then they’ll accuse him of
obstruction like they did when he fired Comey”
“Obstruction for what? There is no investigation now.”
‘ “Oh yea”
“Besides, the president can fire his
subordinates for any reason or no reason at all. Those are Comey’s words not mine. The Democrats in congress are going to
falsely accuse him of shit anyway and want to impeach on already thoroughly
debunked claims so who the fuck cares at this point?”
“Yea, they really hate him so he
shouldn’t really try to make them happy anymore. I see your point but I do want to believe
that the two parties can get along in office but the last three years has
proven the Democrats have no desire to work with Trump and Trump doesn’t help
by constantly insulting them and publicly shaming them.”
“He rattled the hornet’s nest and
tried to drain the swamp. He expected
this backlash and it exposed them for the corrupt assholes they are. He shouldn’t stop.”
“Fine, well I’ve fulfilled my end of
the bargain right?”
“And I have mine.”
“Good, then I’m going to go home to
my husband”
Larry chuckled, “Alright, good
night.”
“Good night. Is there any way you can cancel the
transport?”
“Well, I told them it had to be done
immediately, they were preparing it when we were at the doctor’s so hopefully
your dad’s on the plane now, which means it should be too late.”
“Good, don’t take this the wrong way
but I never want to see you again.”
“That makes sense. I wanted this to be a one-time thing too”
Katie’s tone was stern before but it
softened now. “I mean I don’t want you
to think I’m ungrateful. I really
appreciate your helping my family out it’s just that I kept thinking that I had
no time. Now that it’s over, I wish I
would have talked to my husband first. I
just didn’t want to waste time selling it to him. I feel really disgusting and guilty now. I don’t know if I want to tell him because I
don’t want to blow up my life. I’m just
really confused and seeing you just reminds me of what I did.”
“Like I said, I understand. I’m glad I could help you out. I hope your father makes a complete recovery
and gets well soon. You have no more
obligations to me.”
“Thank you, good bye” as she walked
out.
Katie didn’t tell her husband. The next day, her mom calls her to tell her
that she’s at the Cleveland Clinic as her dad arrived. Katie immediately went to the hospital while
her husband stayed home with their two kids.
Katie walks in and wraps her arms around her dad who looked really
weak. He utters, “I’m going to be okay,
don’t worry sweetheart”
“I know dad, I know I’m just so glad
to see you” as tears streamed down her face
Her dad wanted to change the subject
so posed, “How has our President been doing since I’ve been gone?”
“Pretty well he’s been attacking the
mayor of Baltimore.”
“Yea, well after what they did to
him, I don’t blame him for fighting back”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, it’s looking like the
Republicans are right that the Democrats made up this whole collusion with
Russia thing”
“What makes you say that?”
“A judge just dismissed a lawsuit by
the Democrats for that DNC (Democrat national committee) hack in 2016.”
“Big win for Trump”
“It’s not the result, it’s who said
it and why”
“Who said it?”
“The federal judge was appointed by
Clinton so when the judge said that the entire case was entirely devoid of
facts. That means something. This isn’t
someone that a Republican appointed so they want to curry favor. This was a Clinton appointment, the husband
of the woman that Trump beat and attacked incessantly. That’s what makes it seem even more
believable that the Democrats are doing some shady things. They only brought the lawsuit because they
thought that the judge would be favorable since Clinton appointed him. The case must have been so bad that even the
man whose job was handed to him by an ally couldn’t in good conscious take
it. When you look at how Mueller only
appointed Clinton people for his team.
It really makes it seem like the deck was and still is being stacked
against the President.”
“That’s funny. I just met someone
that was arguing the same thing”
“Yea, well he was right. What did Trump say about Baltimore?”
“That it’s a rat infested city and
the mayor has done nothing to improve it so shouldn’t be talking about how bad
the border is.”
“Well, he’s right, Baltimore is a
shithole”
“Dad!” she scolded, “How do you
know?”
“There was a movie about it called
‘ratfilm.’ It basically talked about all
the rats in Baltimore.”
Katie’s mom interjected, “Yea and I
just saw a video of Elijah Cummings, the mayor of Baltimore, calling Baltimore
a ‘drug infested area’”
Katie rejoined, “If that’s what he
said, and the media is claiming that word ‘infested’ is a racist term than that
makes Elijah Cummings a racist and he’s black.”
Kelly, Katie’s mom, replied, “Yea,
well, at no point was the word ‘infested’ ever indicative of racism until Trump
said it. Do Democrats think we have no
memory? They want to redo the entire
English language based on what Trump says, it’s pathetic.”
Katie’s dad smiled and joked, “Yea,
Democrats walk by inner cities with perfumed handkerchiefs over their noses
talking about how much it stinks. Well a
Republican hasn’t been in office for decades so whose fault is that?”
Katie replied, “Well Trump should
use that. Go to every inner city and
make the same pitch. Everyone will call
him a racist but it’ll raise awareness to the conditions and maybe people will
be motivated to improve it.”
“The people are the ones that vote
them in.”
“Because the Republicans have given
up trying to win there. Most of them
have probably never heard a Republican speak.
They’re not going to get any votes from them anyway so why not try it? They literally have nothing to lose.”
“That’s a good point.”
Katie’s dad made a full
recovery. He would have to take some
heart pills for at least a year but it was a great result. Katie had no idea what would have happened if
she hadn’t made the deal and tried not to think about it. Her mom did ask her how she arranged
this. The story didn’t make sense that a
non-profit organization just took care of it for free. Katie told her that she did have to pay a
reasonable price but refused to tell her what it was even though her mom insisted
on reimbursing her. She claimed that her
and her dad had spent so much money on her over her life, it was the least she
could do. Her mom was always suspicious
but, in time, let the matter go. Katie
contemplated just naming a number and getting free money from her mom but that
would just make her feel more guilty.
She never told her husband about the deal she made with Larry. She talked with her friend a couple times
about it but her friend was very supportive in Katie’s decision. For her part, she never told anyone
either. Larry returned to New York
content that he helped someone in need out.
He never followed up to see if Katie’s dad recovered. He and Katie never communicated again.
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