Agreed.
GMTA — your post reads like it was taken right off of my keyboard!
I’m retiring in th Philippines and Freepers live there too. My bro got married there years ago and 2 things jumped out at me: you can own guns and English is the 2nd language, with more than 10 dailies in English. You can’t get that in those illegal-alien infested countries in the list.
I agree - statists and socialists everywhere are a menace. Places like Costa Rica and Panama though actually have lower top tax rates than the USA - and a thriving, inexpensive and free-market health-care industry (which will be important once Obamacare kicks in). Singapore doesn't have exactly an open political system, but it also has low taxes, is very pro-business, very safe, and absolutely protects property and the rule of law.
Given the ascendency of the idiot-left in the USA, my point is - don't assume the USA will always be better than other places in the future either.
If I was 75-80....frankly I could care less about liberty and freedom issues at that point...living in Utila, Belize, Corfu. Hell...even Catalina.
And you are comfortable with your individual liberty and freedom here? You think you are free of state security and property seizure?
I feel absolutely oppressed and fearful in the United States right now. IRS, EPA, HHS, Justice Dept. All are on a path of destruction of liberty and freedom. It gets worse by the day.
That was my first thought when reading this article. What good is the savings if you have no means (guns) to protect yourself from the creeps that are in any society? And the thought about a tyrannical government is always in my mind.