Posted on 06/05/2010 3:57:31 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife
I expect I will. However, no matter what happens in the next two years, judgments of "quality of life" are a matter of one's individual priorities, and that is not going to change.
Its always amusing listening to expats tell us the wonders of running away while they pay no attention to where they are. There is also a fantasy that the rest of the world will go to hell but where they are will magically be unchanged.
No barf alert?
I wish all such people would escape from America. To safe, secure, stable old Europe. Europe, being overrun by Moslems and being broken by the Cloward-Piven effect. Greece, Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, France.
Yes, they have a wonderful system there. Please, go join them. You can all have something for nothing and let the government run every detail of your lives.
LOL, this was good for a chuckle.
Debt is a choice. You don't have to trap yourself in financial debt in the USA. People who trap themselves in debt, by and large, do it to themselves because they cannot or will not identify the difference between a "want" and a "need". In Europe, the gubmint insures that you are trapped in their debt from which there is no escape. I know a lot of Europeans, I've traveled and worked in many countries around the world and Europeans are, by far, some of the most miserable people I have ever met.
The “hell” of the United States is what millions want to emigrate to. I’ve been all over the world on business and there’s not a country (including Estonia with the beautiful blondes) where I’d rather live. I recently sat and listened to a friend from Quebec who lives here spend 10 minutes telling me how backward the US is, how shabby the women dress, how unsophisticated we are compared to Montreal. After hearing this tripe, I responded that most metropolitan French view the Quebecois as hillbillies speaking provincial French from the 1700s and asked why if Montreal is so great (been there several times and missed its “greatness”), a) she lives here, and b) every major Canadian company except Bombardier has moved headquarters to Toronto. She was dumbfounded.
Your President feels much the same way you do. Only, he is determined to tear the country YOU hate so much down, in order to create the Utopia you all (Liberal/Marxists) crave so much.
As for me, I love my country home, away from Liberals, big city ant colonies and above all, from those like you who would think that the greatest society ever created on Earth, was such a horrible place to begin with.
So in short, GET THE HELL OUT OF THIS COUNTRY NOW! We can’t stand the smell of rotting garbage..........
Many years ago when I was determining for myself the value of MLM, I came across and never forgot the teaching of GOOD ... Get Out Of Debt.
It has served me and my family relatively well.
My 'obligations' are simply taxes, electric, phone/internet.
Of course there is food, gasoline, insurance etc.
Otherwize, i'm good
Who wrote that Obama.
Articles from THE ONION are a welcome break of comedy.
LIBERTY - it’s not for everyone, I guess.
“you will not be able to eat bacon and your knees are going to get sore 5 times a day.”
Son, we have hog killings every day here and I eat all the pork that I want. Pork and chicken are the main meats here.
As for kneeling, yes we do sometimes knell in any of the thousands of Catholic churches.
Maybe you should study up on Geography.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
What a great comedy routine!
LLS
Yep, us too. I realized shortly after grad school (and six years of living on the cheap) that it really doesn't cost that much to live if you don't bury yourself in unnecessary debt. At that point in the late 1980's I set out to pay off everything and never return to being in debt beyond ordinary monthly stuff. We grow most of what we eat now, too.
Life is a series of choices. The overwhelming majority of people who find themselves in dire straits are where they are because of poor choices that they've made.
The article us utter BS.
Is this the author?
Lance Freeman
http://www.planetizen.com/blog/7949
“Lance Freeman is an associate professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University.”
Urban planner, community developer, panelist to some Congressional Black Caucus meetings, interviewed by ?
Would fit, but Freeman is a common name.
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http://www.beh.columbia.edu/people/
Lance Freeman, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Urban Planning in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The author of There Goes the ’Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up
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On board of Directors of National Economic Association
http://www.ncat.edu/~neconasc/election2004.htm
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http://www.japundit.com/Offtopic/Lance_Freeman_complains_about_America
Lance Freeman complains about America
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info –
Japan had a “lost decade” or two, and suffers under long recession and huge dept. But apparently America had them too. This is probably the most offensive critics about America. (Lance Freeman is an associate professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University.).....
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25166.htm
And a lot of it is simply false. We read the news and watch the travel shows; this writer is just making stuff up.
Singapore? Puh-leeze, I'd love to try to house a family of 11 in Singapore, right.
A lot of people on welfare live “better” than I do but I have no desire to live on welfare to be able to have an Ipod. I also have no desire to have a caseworker telling me how to spend my money.
If my taxes were cut by 50% I would feel like I’d won the lottery.
The US economy and purchases have been driving the world economy for quite some time.
World Collapse Explained in 3 Minutes Youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOzR3UAyXao&feature=player_embedded
The very next sentence (after the end of the excerpt) is the give-away: Why is America such a terrible prison, according to the author? Because Western Europe, Japan and Canada all have single-payer healthcare systems.
Except it’s not at all true.
France has guaranteed coverage... if you are a citizen and have been employed. But France doesn’t have birthright citizenship, even for legal immigrants’ kids. And even during economic boom times, millions of young Africans are completely unemployable because business doesn’t want to assume their costs. But France does not have a single-payer health-care system.
Canada has the government option that the DUmmocrats want. But people still buy private insurance on top of it, because they like being able to find doctors willing to look at them.
Japan has a government-mandated healthcare system... that only pays 70% of your bill. How is it single-payer when you, your employer and the local government all have to pay portions of your bill?
UK has what the idiot likes. And they’ve decided to let patients die without treatment. In Belgium, forget about “assisted suicide”: Doctors cannot be charged with murder for “assisted suicide,” so “involuntary assisted suicide” is SOP for severely ill patients.
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