[central_va]

No amount of money or any circumstance short of a total collapse of the Constitutional government would make me leave the USA. Even in that worst case scenario I would fight it out, secession being the best case for relief. Leaving just isn’t an option for this patriot. Blood is thicker than gold.

[theBuckwheat]

“Leaving just isn’t an option for this patriot. Blood is thicker than gold.”

I don’t want to leave either, but there is a tax rate and level of tyranny above which it offends morality for me to continue here. I refuse to be an enabler for the Leviathan State. But just as you should not confuse money with wealth, you should not confuse the government of the United States with the nation this government towers over.

[Mycroft Holmes]

No amount of money or any circumstance short of a total collapse of the Constitutional government would make me leave the USA. Even in that worst case scenario I would fight it out, secession being the best case for relief. Leaving just isn’t an option for this patriot. Blood is thicker than gold.

Those are mighty fine sentiments, but I wonder how appropriate they are in a country that did elect Obama once and appears ready to elect him again (or a white and delight-some version of the same thing). The fires of freedom may well burn brighter on some other shore.

I love the land, but my countrymen fall far short of the mark of being a freedom loving band of brothers deserving of my loyalty unto the death. They seem to be largely a bunch of lemmings hellbent on self destruction. YMMV