Posted on 06/05/2010 3:57:31 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife
If one moves to another country, the first thing they have to do is get rid of their firearms.
I escaped from the prison you call home.
Very True....I busted of New York State 20 years and moved to a free state called Texas.
Life is much better away from the dead end entity once named the Empire State while life in the Lone Star State is full of opportunity.
“Think Pershing and those pesky islamic island problems that you have”
There are probably more Muzies in Detroit then in all of the Philippines.
In my 18 months here, I have yet to see a Muzie.
Spratley? hahahaha, nice for a laugh.
They are sandbars in the south China Sea, with no native inhabitants, and considered as territory of about six countries.
I remember a ham radio expedition there many years ago.
They did not have a Philippine call sign.
No place is perfect, but I am quite happy here, and feel safer then I would be in any American city.
There are many areas of my home city, Memphis, that I would not go in broad daylight.
Unless you happen to be a member of the ownership class, your options are pretty much limited to barely surviving on service-sector wages or playing musical chairs for a spot in a cubicle (a spot that will be outsourced to India next week anyway)...
Fully 70% of your tax dollars go to the Pentagon, and the Pentagon is the real government of the United States...
From Fox News to the New York Times, the mass media in the United States is nothing but the public relations wing of the corporatocracy, primarily the military industrial complex...
Sounds like old commie propaganda redux. It sure ain't reality.
Outside these areas, America--especially its flyover country-- offers the safest and best quality of life to be found anywhere in the world.
This was a crazy statement too.
At first I thought he was writing with tongue in cheek. Then I realized he was serious. Well, don’t let the door hit you on the ass.
Ha! I spent 22 years in the military and am now a college professor. I will be the first to tell you that the most pampered, spoiled people in the world work in Academia. They also have the easiest jobs, but they imagine they have the hardest. I hear my colleagues gripe about the workload, but I roll my eyes when they aren’t looking. These people have the highest quality of life in the world—and then they have the gaul to whine about it. Unbelievable.
Yes, and now they are often the most out of touch with reality of any profession.
When I attended West Texas State University (school of business) in 1966-1970 the dean of the business school was from Arizona State and his preferred business & economics professors were "retired" Army Colonels.
The head of the economics department at the time was Colonel Muir (he did not want to be called Dr. Muir). hee hee hee
This fool can’t fool me. I have watched HGTV enough to know the kitchens in most foreign countries would drive an American woman to instant madness. That is if she could survive without a/c long enough to get to the kitchen. :^)
You don’t even know the degree to which you are tormented by fears of medical bankruptcy, job loss, homelessness and violent crime because you’ve never lived in a country where there is no need to worry about such things.
Greece didn't worry about these things either, and look where it has taken them.
Anywhere that promotes collectivism and disputes individualism will ultimately fail since it goes against true spiritual freedom which is what freedom is all about, not those issues listed here.
Several times, the author states: "You have no choice." Here is the fallacy of his argument. Only when one gives up his free will does enslavement ensue. I believe a majority of Americans will say, "Never!"
I agree with you about the propaganda and it is also contradictory:
How can 70% or our tax dollars go to the Pentagon, yet we are run by a corporatocracy? Which is it - military interests or corporate interests that supposedly run this country?
Thank you for the hearty laugh on a Saturday morning. Nearly every paragraph of this hate-filled screed contains Marxist/Communist talking points. If I get the time later, I might do a paragraph-by-paragraph rebuttal of this pap, because sadly, I know Americans who believe almost every talking point.
Dear Mister Freeman: thank you for leaving this awful, vile country where there are so many starving people. I go to the mall or Walmart, and I see them trying to walk with their distended bellies (probably from hunger) and jumbo-sized clothes carrying the goods they probably had to beg for since no average Americans have any money. Now make sure you never return so you don’t have to witness all the terrible scenes I’ve just described. Stay away. And encourage more like-minded friends to leave.
I’d be thrilled if 70% of taxes went to the Pentagon. I tell myself that my personal contributions go to Homeland Security to pay my daughter in the Coast Guard. (It’s less than what she cost us when she was at home ;-).
My Brit in-laws live pretty good, but practically everything costs twice what it does in the States. One Brit bro-in-law wanted to take up flying after a recent visit to our home here in Wisconsin. We live next to a private airport, so my bro-in-law chatted up a lot of the neighbors and persuaded them to give him a ride. When he went back to Britain, he almost persuaded his wife to move to America so he could learn to fly. The cost of flying lessons in Britain was too prohibitive. The upshot was they didn't move here, and they have a very nice life in England. But it does cost a lot more to live there...even with the "free" healthcare.
“beaches of Thailand” ~ always a tipoff that the writer’s real interest is access to young children.
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