Posted on 05/17/2016 7:50:15 AM PDT by Iron Munro
"I’m still fond of the United States. I just can’t find it."
Great line.
Brings to mind a story. I met some friends at a restaurant. The place wasn’t overly busy but we couldn’t get service. Then I noticed all the dirty tables and realized that the staff were too busy yak-yaking to actually do any work. Before we left I stood near the check-out counter and said in a loud voice, “Say, this would be a great place to put a restaurant!”
This would be a great place to put a nation.
Places like Hillsdale College that have never accepted any government money will keep the flame alive even if the flame is mostly ignored. I think that’s the best we can do for the time being.
If you finally decide that the country isn’t going to keep you free, because it doesn’t have any interest in doing so, the next step is to do it yourself on your own terms.
That’s why people often feel free as expatriates; they aren’t depending on the country to keep them free, they are acting on their own behalf and using what they find as raw material.
Hillary Flammond: My uncle was born in America.
Nick Rivers: Oh, really?
Hillary Flammond: But he was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter presidency.
-Top Secret
And....Mexico is a better place to live, even when compared to Obama America?
Chances of being robbed, taken hostage, or murdered by the cartels while living in Tennessee....
Hmm...have to look into that.
LOL! That is a bit of a problem isn’t it?
America is the worst nation to live in, except for all the others. ;^)
I have many ex-pat friends in the Philippines and know of an old friend now in Brazil (though I'd guess not for long)
The point being ... now that I'm pushing 70, I see and hear things I never did before (which is pretty weird for an eyes-going-bad ... can't-hear-shit old faht) and If it wasn't for Trump ... I'd'a tooken me n'my Filipina wife and headed on down to a tropical paradise ... cost of living 1/2 or less like a king on SS.
It STILL ain't out'a the equation
Maybe a Constitutional Republic where men are free and the government was subservient to the people instead of the people being subservient to the government.
Nah - it wouldn't last.....
I agree with his sentiments but I’ll be damned if I’m going to move to a third world shiite hole where the chances are quite large that I could be kidnapped, my head chopped off or just robbed and killed. Much much greater than here in my nice little rural location.
That’s why people often feel free as expatriates; they aren’t depending on the country to keep them free, they are acting on their own behalf and using what they find as raw material.
Makes sense and nicely said.
Like when you set out to cross a large ocean in a small boat.
To me the importance of this essay is in Fred's analysis of what happened to America, not how Fred dealt with it.
He is right on target when he says America as we knew it is gone - it left us.
Or more precisely, it was stolen away.
Who is John Galt.
“Perhaps senor Rees is a true Mehicahno and fits right in”
Not so much, although Fred Reed is married to a Mexican woman. He’s a Venable, an old Virginia family.
Can you take your guns with you?
;^)
And it didn't, but I am not giving up hope just yet, either.
Depends on where you live, I suspect.
Living in Mexico City outside a gated enclave might be a bad idea.
But there are some areas away from the urban cesspits that are probably quite friendly and comfortable.
But they ain’t the US and the rules are different. You have to keep that in mind.
Life in Mexico may change for an expat during the next administration.
In other words, gringo, leave your guns in America or we’ll seize them and throw you in prison forever.
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