(Ellery, GA) Thomas Biscoe and his girlfriend, Amy Calhoun, are celebrating the birth of their second child in as many years. Their son, Samuel, named for Samuel Adams, will be a part of the second generation of Americans who neither live as long or as well as their parents. Unaware of this, Biscoe did not waste time explaining to a delirious Calhoun and any medical staff present that his son had been, "born into the greatest country on Earth. "My son is going to be free. He's got it better than so many of his ancestors, who got pushed around like they wasn't [sic] even people. Can you imagine?" Despite getting no response from those present, Biscoe continued, "They're trying to bring back communism. It's like these people don't even know history! Their brainwashed by these liberal snowflake teachers. How are you going to tell me and mine what we can and can't own?"
Showing off the Gadsden flag tattoo on his bicep to no one in particular, the 21 year-old metal press operator let out a war whoop that startled hospital staff.
"I thought - I think he was drunk," said Sierra Madison, "Fathers sometimes show up like that. It's weird, and it's a thing. Sometimes, they aren't, but they act like that anyway. I like to just pretend that they are drunk because at least that explains their behavior. Anyway, I have to get back to my shift."
After pointing his tattoo out to nonchalant but very busy nurses and one Antoine Bankston, a coma patient in the next room, the proud new father related that he would never let anyone disrespect him, his family, his country, his President, his Bible, or his country. When the bills for the hospital birth and subsequent care for the child and his girlfriend, Biscoe will owe more in the next two months than twice the total amount of money that he has ever had in his life.
Ignorant of this fact, the Gadsden flag tattooed man shattered the nerves a doctor with an abrupt rendition of the few parts of the Star Spangled banner which Biscoe could remember.
Never having passed a single history class during his short career as a high school student, the young father neglected to point out that because no one in his or Calhoun's family would be able to pay the enormously high hospital bills, their family had already taken irrevocable steps toward the more or less permanent destruction of their credit. As this would make it impossible for the couple to receive loans necessary for the purchasing of property, Biscoe was also unaware of the fact that his son's birth marked the point of no return on the family's path to financial ruin and their being denied basic living necessities.
Because of their low family income, the Biscoe-Calhoun family will be unable to afford to live in a neighborhood that would feed into a decent public school for their children. The family lacks the economic mobility to move out of a state that has never accepted the federal medicaid expansion. When the family's next child is born, their economic situation will become more dire. As Georgia is a so-called, "right to work" state, Biscoe will be unceremoniously laid off from his job at the metal stamping plant in the next two years and forced to live on the kind of welfare that he so reviles in others. Despite the fact that he has seen similar obstacles waylay friends and even close family members, he has always seen this as "part of God's plan" and has comforted others with phrases like, "everything happens for a reason," "what doesn't kill us makes us stronger," and "thoughts and prayers." He will not find these sentiments helpful in the coming years.
Dedicated Republicans, Biscoe and Calhoun both voted for Donald J. Trump in their high school's mock election 2016 and plan to actually vote for him 2020, as they will be of legal age to do so. "That's my Commander-in... Commander-and... Commander'n'chief," exclaims Biscoe, who has never served in the military and would not be eligible to to do so, except under conditions so dire that the country has not faced them since the Civil War, a war that Biscoe claims could begin again at any moment, with the government he so reveres.
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