Good riddance! Talk of expatriation from US makes me sick.
July 12, 2009
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A recent poster had a blog something like this:
..." Despite all of those things I still have a responsibility to protect my family, and any choices that I make have to protect the family's safety, security, belief system, and prosperity. I've been thinking long and hard about those 4 things and until today the thing I looked at the most was the family belief system. We simply had to be in a place we people that agreed with us. Then it hit me! That was the biggest problem all along! In fact most of the world's problems are because we can't globally agree on a belief system. Not only that, but we can't agree locally on a belief system either. It's not a problem that is just here in the US, it's a problem everywhere. Politics, religion, education, economics, etc...
Once I had that revelation, the little light bulb turned on. I know this sounds Libertarian of me, but I'm concentrating on family sovereignty. Now before all the Libertarians jump in to pat me on the back, I don't care what position any government takes in the world about anything. They can repress, regulate, control, oppress, or progress their population as much as they want to. My family is only going to choose to participate to the point that it benefits us and our beliefs. I'm not going to get too specific, because this is the internet and I'm sure the government probably has this post on their radar, but I'm going off grid. I'm getting 3 passports from 3 other countrie. I'm buying a boat in a 4th country through an anonymous corporation. I'm setting up yet another country as an internet presence where I'll do business and I'm banking out of about 4 more countries.When something I don't like about any of those countries bothers me, I'm cutting them off and moving to another one. I'm going to renounce my US citizenship, but pay all my taxes before I leave. (including the penalty for expatriating.) If I have any luck, they will understand that I'm leaving due to poor politics and not as a tax dodge, but if they don't, they can decide to ban me from the country. Then I will be unable to visit my extended family. It's a risk I have to take at this point"..
Things have gotten tougher here? Sounds like you are still making hundreds of thousands a year, if you can afford to buy a large boat in another country.
In the United States, we once had a leader who said: "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." - Maybe this was just a sound bite to you when you were growing up, but it still means something to me today.
You should think about what he said. Too many Americans these days say something akin to... "If Bush gets reelected, I'm moving to Canada" or now I think it is more along the line of "Obama is too awful, things are beyond control and its time to escape".
The truth is that you are still making a good living, better than 95% of the world. The truth is that you are making huge drama out of small issues. For all its problems, the United States is still a wonderful country and place to live. Right now you are living in a country that is not involved in any domestic wars, where it is possible to have a nice home, your family can have any religion, etc.
Let me list the ways things could be worse for you, if you lived anywhere else in the world:
A) If you lived in Iran, you might be getting tortured or executed because of your text messaging.
B) If you lived in China, your minority culture might be getting pushed out of you homeland and assimilated by the government as part of an evil plan.
C) If you lived in the mostly government-free Pitcairn Islands, you would probably have been part of a system of institutional raping by your older family members.
D) If you lived in many African countries, you might have to routinely bribe the police/officials. Otherwise you might find yourself in a very nasty prison cell without any lawyer to help you.
E) if you lived in Italy, you would have Silvio Berlusconi for a Prime Minister. This man owns 50% of the countries media, he is highly corrupt and is accused of sleeping with prostitutes (and they have some of his parties on film...) - and trying to sleep with a minor (which is why his wife divorced him)...
I could probably go on and on...
Anyways, if you really think "things are just too bad here". Fine, go, we don't need you in the United States. We need people who are creative, who are not solely concerned with themselves - but with the lives of others around them, we need people who don't just work for money - but want to leave their neighborhoods in better shape than they were before, we need people who want to try - not just give up.
-Rof
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