Posted on 01/26/2012 4:44:50 PM PST by blam
There are 574 people in the entire county.
(Not me on the bike, btw)
We moved 35 miles outside the city. Best move ever. We are still well within travel distance to the city for work and shopping but far enough that no one would ever go there much less walk there. We are tucked well out of the way and feel nice a cozy here.
After the November elections, many will probably say to hell with not only American cities, but America itself and pack up their families, their goods and the wealth.. and head elsewhere.
Ditto going to and from Las Vegas. We breathe a sigh of relief when we hit mile marker 48 heading East.
Not here in Alabama. We have the toughest immigration laws in the country now...Arizona is 2nd toughest.
Eric Holder is sueing the state because of our immigration laws.
Over time the important centers of political power become more-and-more liberal with less and less commensense conservatism as a break.
These centers of liberalism become malignant cancers that spread everywhere. The laws passed in these cities affect not only their citizens, but the citizens in the abutting suburbs, and even those in rural areas far from the "madding crowds".
Even in the most remotest places in some states you are no longer able to own certain weapons, or if you do they need to be registered to one extent or another.
Even in the most remotest areas there are ever evolving land use restrictions for ecological and other reasons.
If the people in the large cities decide not to enforce the laws or protect the borders, then gang members can flow freely even into the most remote areas, e.g. gang members growing marijuana in remote forest areas.
People in the large cities can vote to place the nastier things in remote rural areas where there is less resistance, e.g. unnecessary dams, pipe dream solar collectors, dumps, etc.
You can run, but you can't hide. And in running you have decided to no longer be a part of the political process.
And if you are truly a "prepper" and you post anything at all about it on the internet then I have some pre-IPO shares in a cold fusion technology I'd like to sell you.
If you think your handle hasn't already been associated with your current GPS location you're in serious denial.
“Metropolis of 150”...Your a funny guy Cripp!!! I’m high up in the snowy well forested mountains of the ‘Great American Redoubt’. Nearest town of about 400, (a HUGE majority of whom are conservative, trained gun owning, redneck preppers), ‘down the hill’ about 5 miles. I would advise anyone to get out of large city dodge NOW. Make it happen no matter what you have to do. When the SHTF and M. law is set into place, all roads leading out of the large cities, over mountain passes, interstates etc. will be blockaded within HOURS by the NG. 99.99% will be stuck. Not a nice thought if you ask me.
So darn what? Bring it on Feds, I’m not scared and neither are my prepper neighbors up here. GPS my handle all you want Feds. Live Free on your feet or die on your knees. I’d rather check out fighting for the Constitution of this Country not bowing down to some jackboot in a large city. Each to his own. I’m to old to be scared of anything the Gov. can do to me anyway. Not looking for ANY fight with the Feds, hell, my old butt would get itself kicked, but but I’ll be dammed if I’m gonna run scared the rest of the years I have left. Maybe I misunderstood your thoughts but I’m fine right where I am at. I worked hard for it.
Everybody goes to private school, so it is quite expensive if you have kids. But if you want to have your kids go to private school, you need a large city to support competition between them.
Nearly everybody I know has a pretty prestigious education: Harvard, Pepperdine, the Sorbonne in France, Oberlin, Amherst, Georgetown, Duke, Tel Aviv University, and King’s College in London - to name a few. I rarely ran into anybody educated when I lived the small town I was born in!
I liked small towns before I was exposed to the city. Small towns are stifling. There is energy - the energy of commerce - vibrating off the windows of every tall building in the big city. The volitional power of the city is awesome!
I enjoy our civilization.
Now will riots change all this? I do not know, but I hope not! I might visit my parents on election day, after absentee voting.
You got that right!
My husband just got home after training MI employees that work in the city of Detroit. He continues to be appalled at their lack of literacy, their unprofessional conduct, their whining, etc. Did I mention most of them have been employed for +8 years and management won't fire them?
They're too ignorant to steal food and supplies when SHTF. They'll invade Bloomfield Hills / Birmingham / Farmington / Grosse Pointe and go for the Caddies, the bling, the prescription drugs and booze.
Paging John Titor...
Forty seven percent of the people living in Detroit and New Orleans cannot read or write.
Then you won't have to worry about them eventually coming for you.
When the Supreme Court said busing was mandatory, there was "white flight" and the major cities were ceded, almost overnight, to the liberals.
Overtime the same nonsense was foisted on those who had fled to the suburbs. They escaped ... but not for long.
At some point in order to be a certified home schooler you will have to sign a document stating that you will teach your children about the wonders of gay sex.
And that time will come a lot sooner than the riots and general disintegration of society. So the government will have plenty of resources to send out to what CNN will describe as your "compound" to extricate your children or grandchildren from the "evils" of a Christian (what CNN wil call "cultist") education.
Thank you very much for deciding to segregate yourself from American society, and be only geographically American.
Are you serious? Why can’t I vote the bastards out from my nearest polling place 5 miles away? Why do I have to be in a large city? Explain that one. I’m only a ‘geographical’ American huh? (Just because I relocated to the mountains from the big city upon retirement?) Have it your way sonny.
“Nearly everybody I know has a pretty prestigious education: Harvard, Pepperdine, the Sorbonne in France, Oberlin, Amherst, Georgetown, Duke, Tel Aviv University, and King’s College in London - to name a few. I rarely ran into anybody educated when I lived the small town I was born in!”
I think you mean”——the small town in which I was born”
Your new friends would be shocked at the grammar——just shocked.
Ouch.
Well, my goodness. Aren’t you just country come to town.
Your opinion will likely change, should your emotional liberation include procreation as well as being accountable for having done so.
Here in NJ the powers to be decided to “stand down”; our former governor (a Dem) admitted that without illegal aliens, NJ had lost population (we just lost a congressional district because of it - illegals don’t count). The nanny-state tax burden here has forced many companies and taxpayers to flee; without illegals many of our urban areas would be ghost towns (the “American” permanent underclass stopped breeding like rabbits when BJ Clinton ended the “cash-for-kids” program). It still makes no sense to import so many people with their hands out; they cost much more than their underground economy ever puts in state coffers.
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