Posted on 10/17/2013 1:45:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Take this with many grains of salt. A knee replacement for free?? You’ve got to be kidding me. I travel abroad extensively and don’t believe much of what you are saying, except the status part.
Actually, the blogger is pretty arrogant. Having spent what, three years living in unidentified foreign locations now this qualifies him as the only expert on what’s wrong with America and who is right about his 10 points? Blecch!
I feel the lesser after having read this screed.
No wonder his brother is an alcoholic.
This guy sounds like Obama.
I vote he stays in whatever third-world craphole he wishes so he can enjoy the 6-story cineplex to his heart’s content and I’ll stay right here. That way, both of us will be happy and never have to put up with each other. Oh, and BTW, please have him send back his US passport while he’s at it since he’s found Nirvana elsewhere.
Speaking as an expat living in Japan, I can’t account for all of this, but most of it, especially regarding attitudes, is bang on. Most of my Japanese friends have written off America as a tourist destination and are reluctant to accept business appointments that take them there.
Canada is much preferred, South American appointments are very competitive, Europe is a city-by-city decision, but going to America even as a highly paid middle management type is just more hassle than its worth.
Comments? Just one. When someone uses obscenities in a blog I quit reading and dismiss them as an idiot
No, I really don’t care what else they have to say, they’re idiots...period.
I agree with all 10 - I don’t know about the free health and the circumstances behind it — I remember going to a Kuwaiti hospital - for as rich as they are - it was dirty and over crowded...I guess it depends...but yes - most US citizens (largely the youth) are idiots to world politics and obese people are everywhere...but then again - look at the politicians we keep sending into office and the deals they make with food producers and Monstano!
He doesn’t say knee replacement, he says knee surgery. Surgery (or much of anything) quickly runs up in the tens of thousands in Obamaland.
I think I just ignored him. Later on I found him glued to his TV and watching CNN International and soaking up all the bad crap they were spouting.
The liberal media has destroyed our country and for the life of me I can't understand why they did it.
Can I take my AR15 with me? No? I'll stay here, thanks. Yes, it's that important to me. The author reeks of whiny socialist anyhow.
How’s London?
There was a time when the Japanese were heavily invested in the City, according to the locals, but now the islamics seem much more important...
NZ has been insanely left, and anti-christian and antisemitic for fifty years or more.
Trust me, I know a few of them. It’s like a board meeting of Daily KOS.
All the comments until yours, Ronin, epitomize what the author was talking about. There are none so blind as those that will not see. I agree with everything the guy says, including medical care. Some travel extensively but never learn. Some prefer to remain in place and not learn. The reflexive knee-jerk reaction is just sad but does prove the point.
It is such a shame about the politics because it has got to be the most beautiful and diverse place on earth.
My next door neighbors are Japanese expats, they seem to like Texas pretty well and they are raising a beautiful family here.
My son lives in South Korea and he says status and consumerism is much bigger there.
Debt ceiling increase?...Obamacare? BOTTOMS UP!
In my 12 years between central Europe and the Philippines, I do not hear many comments one way or the other. I think many know that the American dream is not what it use to be.
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