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.
That’s a rare mentality. Most people who leave the US to live in other countries mostly want a better opportunity elsewhere, unlike the small minority who no longer want to be Americans. Many of them still care enough to vote in US elections, which they see is important, but have no reason to have a physical presence in the US to be Americans.
To say that they are “escaping America” or “turning their back on family” is not true at all, any more than saying that children who get married and move out of their parents house to live in their own are “escaping their parents” or “turning their back on their parents”.
And those who want citizenship in another country are often fed up with some aspect of America enough so they are willing to go through the difficult and time consuming process to leave. Nothing traitorous about it, any more than divorcing a spouse you no longer love. Traitorous implies that you want to hurt your nation. Generally they don’t, but they just don’t want to live here anymore.
A good example was how, long ago, interracial couples would move to Panama, because it was one of the few countries that was indifferent to interracial marriage. The US was decidedly intolerant, mostly of black and white marriage, but at times of Oriental and white marriage (excepting Hawaii and parts of California), Hispanic and white marriage, in some parts of the US, and going way back, Indian and white marriage.
If people in America just won’t leave you alone, or pester or threaten you incessantly, leaving the US becomes far more attractive.
I appreciate your response, and also understand that all experiences aren’t mine.
Defend in place is my strategy...
Well, if the Federal employees are Evil, shouldn’t we celebrate their departure from this Paradise?
“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.”
Me too. The majority of my ancestors were here when this was still a colony of Britain. I have about a dozen Revolutionary War soldiers in my line. I’m not about to go anywhere.
But there are quite a few characters who I think should leave the country- do we get to vote them out?
Well, Australia was once a good option, but Christianity turned that penal colony into a force for good and God.
Even sinners exposed to the root choices turn for God.
Not sure where to exile the chaff these days...
“family?...friends?...honestly, do these expats have any?.....how could you move thousands and thousands of miles away from your children and grandchildren...”
I suspect that many of these Federal employees are naturalized citizens and retiring overseas actually brings them back to their families. I know people who did this, and more who say that that is what they intend to do.
America is a place for them to earn a good living. But they don’t regard it as their homeland or their culture.
Which for me explains why many of the ‘model immigrants’ vote to the left. That gets them more goodies, and if it wrecks America, well, it wasn’t their real country anyway.
“Not sure where to exile the chaff these days...”
Someplace exciting so that they won’t get bored. Syria, maybe.
Ya-
Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, etc.
Any of the places we worked to stabilize in the last 50 years that are now succumbing to the obama apology tour.
Undoing the cogs of Global Stability. The obama Vision.
Traitorous, scandalous anti-American POS.
Staying in America and defending it is good, but it is important to remember three military sayings:
1) It is always better to protect than to defend.
2) A static defense is slow suicide.
3) Never willingly surrender any advantage to the enemy.
There is voluminous wisdom in these sayings, and each is worthy of pondering at length, as they give insight into many facets of conflict, be it peaceful and political, or violent and life or death.
1) It is always better to protect than to defend.
Shouldn't that be "attack," instead of "protect?"
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Nope. Judo rule: “You cannot imbalance your opponent without first imbalancing yourself.”
This applies to attacks as well. When you attack you must both overcome defenses, and anticipate being counterattacked. But the defense has different rules.
The most important part of protection defense is to deny the enemy their mission objective. This can be done by removing it; concealing it; making it “not worth their while”; distracting them with what they think is a more valuable target, but isn’t; and to make their efforts increasingly expensive in all ways. Optimally they don’t even know what they want exists in the first place.
The Russians were always careful that in their battle plans, they always had a plan for “obscuration and deception”. It was mandatory, in the attack or the defense.
So protection isn’t easy. It takes a lot more thought than defense. It could even be said that if you must defend, you have already fouled up your protection. And that raises yet another military maxim:
Never reinforce defeat.
When you are fighting a superior force, you can either go up in a sheet of flame like Custer, or you can get away with minimum damage like Kit Carson did in the First Battle of Adobe Walls, while inflicting serious hurt on your enemy.
But the best alternative of all is for your enemy to think a fight with you just isn’t worth it.
I cannot improve on any of those 3 concepts.
I recall President Reagan kinda summarizing the above with the phrase “Peace through strength”
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