She is exactly right. I have lived for weeks in various countries and weeks for over 20 years in England. When I would take my son’s wife and small child to lunch in an everyday sort of restaurant, the cost was over $100 American dollars. I would go to the grocery store and you won’t find one like our big ones. We would go to a “big” one there and choices were very limited and very expensive.
If you took American products out of that store, it would be close to being bare. Our companies make the size containers for there and you won’t find a big bottle, say, of dishwashing soap – instead it is tiny and costs a lot more than one of our big bottles you buy to put at your kitchen sink. I recall a bottle of Johnson Wax. It was the only choice there and the bottle was tiny and highly expensive. I would pay for a small bag of groceries and it would cost over $100 American dollars. Plus you eat at home due to going out to eat there is very expensive.
When she would come to this country, she would buy their clothes here because they were so cheap. My grandson walked into Academy and wanted to live there. He has never seen a store that big with sporting goods. Walmart was like a whole different world to them, so big with so much in it at cheap prices.
Then, we have Caliban who shows up and wants everyone to leave this country and go to Nicaragua. He’s got a beach house – where have we heard that before – foreign country living on the beach? Here is a summary of why Caliban was us to desert our country like he did:
“Nicaragua, own a beach house and an 8 acre farm with house.”
“Better think outside the box, because the USA is crumbling and they have NO PLANS in having aging baby boomers around any longer the they have too.”
“Get out, live on your SS in a country where the money still has buying power and enjoy your nest egg if you had saved one.”
“The savages here hate what you embrace, welfare entitkements (sic), abortion, gay marriage and atheism...”
By savages, he means those like him living there – “they hate what “you” embrace” I put the “you” in quotes as he means we approve of welfare, abortion, gay marriage and atheism, because if we didn’t, we would move to Nicaragua. That is a disgusting charge to level at Freepers – if I had a zot button, that charge to Jim Robinson and the rest of us, would put Caliban away.
Caliban is a disgrace to FR. We aren’t running away like he did, we will keep trying to save our country, not desert her and we certainly wouldn’t call our conservative friends lovers of welfare, abortion, gay marriage and atheism because they live in the USA – that malevolent charge is a vicious attack on Freepers.
I think ol’ Caliban and AlexW would get along nicely, hanging out with commies, moslems, and assorted other fun, wonderful, exciting, tolerant, peace-loving cultures.
Funny thing about cowards... they aren’t content to just do it alone. They seem to need approval, or affirmation, as if that will somehow expiate what’s going on in their minds. They can dress it up any way they want; but at the end of the day, they still ran away, and left other people holding the bag...
And every time they look in the mirror, it just reaffirms it.
I think THAT’s why these morons come out here and post their bullsh*t - hoping somebody somewhere will say “Hey... it’s okay what you did... we still love you... Do ya need a HUG?”
Caliban, has become zot. Telling Freepers we approved of depraved conduct if we didn’t leave this country, was the last proverbial straw. He can take his Nicaragua and ....
Just Kidding. Everything you said is right on! My Mother is from The U.K. and I heard that every time a relation would visit from back home.
One of the things that makes America great is our access to the "Simple Things" can you imagine your life without a 80 inch Plasma TV? Well, Yes as a Matter of fact I can.
But could you imagine it without things like Canned Soup, Toilet Paper and Soap (that doesn't cost your first born)?
They Just opened an Academy Sports here in KC. It is awesome, Cabelas selections without the Legends Tax added to it.
I went to Guam this Summer for....Business, and they have the Worlds Largest K-Mart there.
While it is nothing special to me, its about the size of a Super Walmart, the Japanese FLOCK to it!
They come there to buy the "Simple Things" and ship it back to Japan because it is so much cheaper there (although to me, growing up in the middle of the country it seemed on the expensive side)
But it was cheap for the Japanese.
Guam was nice (and technically part of the USA) I was SO happy to be home, you should have seen the numbers of Forgien Turoist in Guam and Hawii just wanting to get just a taste of American Culture, Taiwanese, Japanese, Koreans, Russians, Australians.
P.S. They have Rows of Spam in their store that literally would go up to the ceiling in my house, and almost just a long. Every Single Kind you can think of they had. The Chamorrans and Japanese LOVE Spam.
Double P.S. the Shooting Industry is Booming in Guam, because the Japanese are strict with Gun Control, they flock to Guam to try it out, Literally Shooting Ranges on Every Block, Hell they even have on at their War Memorial