Barack Obama, America’s Nero

dirkgently Teniente Posts: 2,048	Barack Obama, America’s Nero Feb 18, 2015 13:00:32 GMT -6 Doug, emotionallyincorrect, and 2 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by dirkgently on Feb 18, 2015 13:00:32 GMT -6 I'm too old and mean to settle anywhere. Just going to watch the world burn I suppose.
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Barack Obama, America’s Nero Feb 18, 2015 13:08:33 GMT -6

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Feb 18, 2015 12:55:00 GMT -6 adjensen said:

Feb 17, 2015 21:02:45 GMT -6 emotionallyincorrect said:

Where will you go?

I have some personal issues (read: woman, lol) that I need to work out which will have an impact on where I'll go, if I do.

I work remotely for a company that has employees all over the world, so until TSHTF, I can work from anywhere and am paid well enough to do so. I've been researching becoming an ex-pat for a long time, and I could comfortably live almost anywhere, though I'm leaning towards Central America, the Caribbean or southeast Asia (my son in law is from Malaysia.) I recently read an article on places you can live comfortably on less than $1,000 a month, and there are a lot of options that would leave me with a crapton of cash at the end of the month compared to what I have now.

I'm not of the mindset that there is some grand conspiracy and we're on the verge of martial law, I just look at the economy and see something really, really bad on the horizon, and if it does all come crashing down, living here in Minnesota is probably not the best place to be, I'd rather be somewhere warm with a small plot of land that can sustain me.

Follow your old governor Jesse Ventura! He is living the high life in Mexico!

To be honest, that is the one reason he lost my respect. He ran! Don't preach your love for the country and it's Constitution and then run away like a coward.

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Barack Obama, America’s Nero Feb 18, 2015 13:17:42 GMT -6 dirkgently, Doug, and 2 more like this

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Feb 18, 2015 12:21:29 GMT -6 emotionallyincorrect said:

I guess it goes to show how we have been conditioned to be "Soft"? Domesticated to obey?

I don't mean that as a personal attack on anyone, but think about it! What are we taught? NEVER RUN FROM YOUR PROBLEMS. Unfortunately that phrase is used most in todays world to encourage people to work with their creditors to pay their debt!

Odd how we have been conditioned to say the least.....

You know, I've never ran from a problem in my entire life - but I have sure as hell ignored several! I've found that "problems" are only problematic if you allow them to bother you. otherwise, no problem!

I destroyed a case full of credit cards and blew off all that debt years ago, figuring that in 10 years I could start all over again... but when the 10 years was up, I found that I didn't want or need any credit any more, so I never did.

No problems.

Same with the current state of the US. What I don't want to do, I don't do. Obamacare is a fine example. I'm not enriching some jackass insurance corporation just because Obama decreed that the IRS is to be the "enforcers" or "leg breakers" for private companies. They can bite me. Come break my legs, boys - see what happens.

When the war comes here, as Obama CLEARLY intends for it to, I'll deal with that in my own way, too.

My whole philosophy these days is that I'm going to live until I die. During that time, I AM going to do exactly what I damned well want to, wherever I find myself - and if the rest of the world, Obama included, don't like that, they can all kiss my ass - consider this official notification to them.

What the hell are they going to do? Charge me taxes? Take away my birthday?

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Barack Obama, America’s Nero Feb 18, 2015 13:22:29 GMT -6 dirkgently, Doug, and 3 more like this

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I think that terming it to be running away may be fair in the first half of life, but age does matter in these things. Life looks radically different at 41 than it did at 21. Quite frankly, the nation may well be too screwed to see a turn around to matter in my lifetime. If medical quality keeps dropping, that stops being a question in direct proportion, too.

If the young don't care, though? The old can't carry the water when there is this much of it, and being a martyr has never been on my bucket list.

Live my last 10-15 years after I graduate in a warped version of 1984, waiting for the all out war it'll take to reverse it, once gone a bit further.......or find a nation where quality of life is still a point of quality?

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Barack Obama, America’s Nero Feb 18, 2015 13:28:54 GMT -6 dirkgently likes this

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Feb 18, 2015 13:22:29 GMT -6 @wrabbit2000 said:

I think that terming it to be running away may be fair in the first half of life, but age does matter in these things. Life looks radically different at 41 than it did at 21. Quite frankly, the nation may well be too screwed to see a turn around to matter in my lifetime. If medical quality keeps dropping, that stops being a question in direct proportion, too.

If the young don't care, though? The old can't carry the water when there is this much of it, and being a martyr has never been on my bucket list.

Live my last 10-15 years after I graduate in a warped version of 1984, waiting for the all out war it'll take to reverse it, once gone a bit further.......or find a nation where quality of life is still a point of quality?

I guess my radical (as in choosing freedom over government) mental state precedes my physical abilities.

Anyhow, this old bastard ain't going anywhere!

To each his own I guess. These are my opinions on just how I feel about things. I still respect other peoples freedom to do as they choose.

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Barack Obama, America’s Nero Feb 18, 2015 13:35:16 GMT -6 emotionallyincorrect likes this

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That is the joy of a free nation. :right-on:

...besides..there are different ideas for what someone calls another nation. I'm not thinking England or Germany or anything along those lines.

Something more like Thailand or the South Pacific. There are all sorts of places in "paradise" (it has real downs along with the ups..I know) that would love an English masters for language classes, if nothing else. Riches have never been my goal anyway. Just a comfy life without real want for anything important.

My humble abode can be in Oceania as easily as Missouri for comfy factor. Its the net connection I draw the line at non-negotiable for. Gotta have one. Gotta be a good one. :)

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Barack Obama, America’s Nero Feb 18, 2015 14:14:28 GMT -6 dirkgently likes this

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Feb 18, 2015 13:35:16 GMT -6 @wrabbit2000 said:

My humble abode can be in Oceania as easily as Missouri for comfy factor. Its the net connection I draw the line at non-negotiable for. Gotta have one. Gotta be a good one.

Yeah, that's pretty much my only requirement, because it's necessary for my job. Beyond that, warmth and a reasonably safe environment for a white Christian, which leaves out the Middle East, Europe and most of Asia. Mexico isn't on my list, although I talked to one ex-pat who's living in a small town in the middle of nowhere there and he likes it and says that it's nothing like the impression we get here from the media.

I don't view it as "running away from the good fight" because a) I don't think that there is a fight ahead, just economic collapse and misery and b) I'm a pacifist, so I wouldn't fight anyway. That's an unpopular position, but it's been mine most of my life.

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