The Universal Good Deal, Chapter 21
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This is Chapter 21 of The Universal Good Deal, you may want to start at the beginning or go back to Chapter 20.

21
When President Welles learned that Ross, the first secretary of the Association, was in a hospital in the capital, she brought him flowers. Welles found him in a bed wrapped in plaster.
'I'm guessing because you've ended up here, and not in an office at the new Association headquarters, that you have found yourself to be a figurehead.'
Ross got very heated on the topic of his position in the Association and would have fallen out of the bed or hurt himself in some other way, if Welles hadn't waved her hand at him imperiously.
'You'll be a much happier man if you give up any hope of saving the Association. You can't beat Barrow at his chosen game.'
'Oh my god!' groaned Ross. 'Don't you see how bad this is? There are worse things than death!1 I would rather see that damned Association, and every member of this civilization fucking nuked out of existence than to see it turned into some kind of half-breed, Alien whore.2 If something is not done, and I mean fucking quick, it's as good as murdering our own children.'3
'I couldn't agree more,' said Welles. 'But the question I keep coming back to is why do they want our money?'
'Isn't it obvious? All you have to do is look at them. They've all got leprosy.'4
'I can't say that I'd considered that,' said Welles.
'Why else do you think they stink so fucking badly?5 It's definitely the odor of leprosy.6 It's got something to do with too much calcium in the blood—which is why their skin is so white—and phosphorus or something that makes them all stink.7 And of course you've seen how they go after our women. You'd expect the females of a species from an entirely different planet to be repulsive, but they can't even keep their hands off the ugly women here. It's the leprosy. Lepers are always horny.'8
'Is leprosy even a thing anymore?' asked Welles. 'How do you know all this?'
'A guy I know in Philadelphia—he's a good friend, you can trust him—he's got a thing about leprosy, as long as I've known him. But here's the fucking kicker: he said he saw an Alien rubbing his skin with our money, and the skin where he rubbed it was changed to a normal color, not that horrible white.9 I'm telling you, they're using our money to cure their leprosy.'
'That's about what I expected to hear,' said Welles. 'Listen, how'd you like to become my chief adviser on Alien affairs?'
This was undoubtedly a strategic move on Welles' part. I doubt that she was under any illusions regarding Ross's intelligence or usefulness as an adviser; rather, her move was calculated to annoy Barrow.
Chapter 22 tomorrow, same time, same place.

Footnotes
  1. Shoot, men! My God, shoot! There are things worse than death! Thomas Dixon, Jr., The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865 – 1900 1908 ↩
  2. Personally, the writer of this book would rather see his race and his civilization blotted out with the atomic bomb than to see it slowly but surely destroyed in the maelstrom of miscegenation, interbreeding, intermarriage, and mongrelization. Theodore G Bilbo, Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization 1947 ↩
  3. But if something is not done, and soon done, we shall be the murderers of our own children. Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker 28 August 1797 ↩
  4. I shall only add to them a few observations which are intended to prove that the color and figure of that part of our fellow creatures who are known by the epithet of negroes, are derived from a modification of that disease, which is known by the name of Leprosy. Benjamin Rush, “Observations intended to favour a supposition that the Black Color (as it is called) of the Negroes is derived from the Leprosy” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 4, 17 July 1797 ↩
  5. The Moors of Sierra Leone and the Mongols who are within the area of China, spread an evil smell. Immanuel Kant, Physical Geography 1802 ↩
  6. This smell mentioned by Dr. Theiry continues with a small modification in the native African to this day. Benjamin Rush, “Observations intended to favour a supposition that the Black Color (as it is called) of the Negroes is derived from the Leprosy” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 4, 17 July 1797 ↩
  7. The superabundance of the iron particles, which are present in all human blood, and which are precipitated in the reticular substance through evaporation of the acids of phosphorus (which make all Negroes stink) cause the blackness that shines through the superficial skin. Immanuel Kant, On the Different Races of Human Beings 1775 ↩
  8. Lepers are remarkable for having strong venereal desires. This is universal among the negroes, hence their uncommon fruitfulness when they are not depressed by slavery; but even slavery in its worst state does not always subdue the venereal appetite. Benjamin Rush, “Observations intended to favour a supposition that the Black Color (as it is called) of the Negroes is derived from the Leprosy” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 4, 17 July 1797 ↩
  9. A citizen of Philadelphia upon whose veracity I have perfect reliance, assured me that he had once seen the skin of one side of the cheek inclining to the chin, and of part of the hand in a negro boy, changed to a white color by the juice of unripe peaches. Benjamin Rush, “Observations intended to favour a supposition that the Black Color (as it is called) of the Negroes is derived from the Leprosy” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 4, 17 July 1797 ↩
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