Galt’s Gulch?
http://www.LivingInThePhilippines.com
Bye...bye. We won’t miss you.....and good luck when the bulk of this financial crisis REALLY hits the world (I’ll be here in the USA....where people help each other.)
This is so silly.
Oh, please.
Please explain your message to the Mexicans on our southern border,
Thank you
This guy seems to be a bit crazy, as well as overboard.
We do, however, have one thing in common.
I am so thankful that I was able to leave the USSA, and have no intention of ever returning.
While I enjoyed my years in Europe, I would not risk setting up permanent life there.
For now, I am quite happy in the Philippines, but it is not for everyone.
Reads like a highly sophisticated, upscale version of the kind of numbskull propaganda that came from PRAVDA in the 1960s, which painted vivid pictures of deluded Americans getting hypnotized by disco lights, etc. etc.
The only difference is that this piece seems at the service of and sponsored by what I’d have to call The International Real Estate Conspiracy.
I guess it all depends on where Lance’s priorities are. Personally I don’t want to be cared for, cradle to grave like an animal in a zoo.
I love this guy! Now if about 100 million libs/RINOs/moderates/mexicans, etc. would also understand that it is terrible living here.
"Consider this, you are the only people in the developed world without a single-payer health system."
Had part ownership of a scuba diving venture (1990's) in Candelaria, Zambales. It took earthquakes, typhoons, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, coming down with Typhoid, and the base closures at Clark and Subic to get me out of the country.
However, this clown really misses the mark when it comes to quality of life issues.
BTW - all over the world, for every 1000 protesters outside the front of a U.S. Embassy, 10000 are at the back door trying to bribe their way into America!
Maybe if we didn’t pull the worlds ass out of fires they created, we would’t need to work so damned hard and pay so many taxes.
Maybe if socialism hadn’t infected our government a hundred years ago, and government had not destroyed our families and medical system, many of the authors concerns would not exist.
It is the damned tax burden and massive growth of government that has forced too many Americans into two working parent families.
LLS
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.
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..........
Who wrote that Obama.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
What a great comedy routine!
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
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.