Posted on 06/05/2013 7:55:14 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Friends, countrymen, let me explain what has been happening for years and is only now coming to head with all of the present scandals. A couple of years ago, my wife and I went to look at a house for sale. A Federal employee and his Filipino wife were selling and in the conversation, the man admitted he was retiring to the Philippines. It didn't register at the time, but now it is really hitting me.
It is very inexpensive to live in the Philippines, servants are cheap, housing is a steal and food prices are rock bottom. Almost all educated Filipinos speak, read and write English with some modicum of fluency. If the investigative media were to look in to this, they would find a large number of retired Federal employees who have their retirement income directed to the Philippines (Costa Rica, Belize, San Miguel de Allende area in Mexico and probably even Thailand) and some may even be living on and/or starting businesses in those countries on ill-gotten gains from Federal service.
It does bear investigation and the task would not be insurmountable. These Federal employees have raped America for years and are living the good life while our economic and spiritual lives collapse over here. More than likely illegal immigration issues are tied to fraudulent activity as well. You have to have SOMEBODY to provide tax funds to pay for the retirement pensions of these parasites. If they "disappear" to the right location on the globe, they can live virtually undetected.
This is utter nonsense. People should be free to live wherever they wish - assuming that they meet immigration, residency and tax requirements. Federal pension may be excessive, but that hardly justifies constraining where retirees live.
Did you know that you can get a visa to visit and live in Malaysia that's good for 10 years! That's part of a very basic 'you bring the money ~ we provide the amenities' situation. That country has improved things tremendously over the last 30 years. Cheap wine is about $22 a bottle, but you can live without alcohol in the tropics.
An annual income of $4,500 will get you into Mexico on a permanent basis. Most federal retirees get at least that.
Amen Brother.
Belize was being promoted around here... sounded good for about 10 minutes.
I’m not a fed by the way, but their are a fair number of them in my area.
Expatriots are just that, Ex. Parlaying your life savings and future to sit on a beach with a house servant in a presently somewhat orderly society with the expectation that nothing will go wrong in your lifetime is a huge gamble.
I prefer to stand with my family and friends and neighbors in the USA. My money may not go as far, but I’m an American and will strive for the values inculcated in my youth when this was the model for the world.
I wont have a servant or a life of luxury but I will have my dignity as a free-born American.
I think all kinds of people retire overseas for various reasons. On paper, these countries have all kinds of advantages. When you actually live there, however, it isn’t all its cracked up to be.
The Philippines are bearable, I suppose, if you are okay with rampant public urination.
Otherwise Federal employees, including retired military personnel, have the same rights as any American citizen to retire to an affordable place. Its socialist countries that prohibit citizens from moving abroad with their money. (Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, modern Norway.) Can't treat them differently. No, this would not work.
>> I prefer to stand with my family and friends and neighbors in the USA... I wont have a servant or a life of luxury but I will have my dignity as a free-born American.
Agree 100%.
God bless you for putting it so well.
I don’t know you, but I think I like you.
Considering how fast the USA is slipping into a third world tyranny I think it is wise for Americans to carry the torch of American ideals to other countries in case it is totally lost here.
Defend in Place.
We may not prevail in this mortal body but we will prevail, and give hope and courage to those too young to have seen what we have seen.
We ride on the shoulders of those who have gone before us and laid down their lives for God’s Truth, Liberty and the American Dream. They were loyal when conscripted, they volunteered often when there was no conscription; they trusted the greater good because that was what you did, even if you didn’t understand all the geopolitics.
We are a vestige now, but I vow to go down with honor and dignity. Many Saints went before us and were given the strength to endure awful things- God will grant us the same strength should we choose of our free will to apprehend it.
US military personnel have been doing this for decades. And many are going to more ordinary places like Germany, because they own a house there, and their spouse is German. Many US personnel loved living in the Philippines and Panama, where they could live the good life even on a typical pension.
Importantly, they often have a lot of pull in their new country, and are good diplomats, disposing the people who live there more favorably to Americans.
There are several countries that try to recruit retired American expats. For example, Panama is working very hard to attract retirees by offering well-publicized retirement incentives to sway the opinions and change the goals of newly retired people.
Panama offers 30% discounts on almost everything, even airfare. Panama allows a new car to be imported tax-free every two years. In addition, they allow the importation of household goods without economic consequence. Furthermore, Panamanian immigration law affords an easier, quicker, and less costly path to legal residency.
Its a concept.
I prefer Geronimo’s and Quanah Parker’s approach....
come on now....you didn’t realize a long time ago?..that people voting in the communists are fleecing the pension pig than absconding with OUR tax dollars?
I don’t dispute the “pollination” effect Americans abroad can have. But, if the mentality is to escape the US, turn back on family, etc. instead of building a strong family network because we can go get ours now I think it counterproductive, selfish, short-sighted and borderline traiterous.
IMHO.
of course I realize many of these people are probably childless....
1 Timothy 5:18
For the scripture said, You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his reward.
ah, the American character....
so, you think immigration policy should be easy,quick, and less costly?....all hail immigration reform...
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