Posted on 11/05/2004 11:17:53 AM PST by free_kiwi
Inquiries from Americans wanting to move to New Zealand have "exploded" since George W Bush was re-elected president.
The Immigration Service's website had 10,300 hits from the United States the day after the election. Usually it gets 2500 hits a day.
And the phones of its US marketing directors in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, have been ringing nonstop since the election.
Marketing director Don Badman said there had been up to 300 telephone calls and emails a day.
"We've been doing this for 11 months and it's been building up to about six to eight calls a day, but from Thursday it's exploded. It really started picking up from 11pm the night of the election."
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that many Americans were inquiring about moving to New Zealand, Australia and Canada as a result of the election. (...)
(Excerpt) Read more at stuff.co.nz ...
Well, O.K., then.
If that's the way it works, you have my permission to send them to Quebec!!!!
I'm on board for GTHO...I'd even volunteer to be a fundraiser IF the ones to leave will also give up their U.S. citizenship. Once they go, I don't ever want to see them come back!
How come they aren't knocking on Fidel Castro's door?
Their minds have gone...now maybe their a$$es will follow..
Not only that but they will never make as much money as they can here. Don't we have the hightest GNP and more spending money per captia or some such economic mumbo-jumbo?
I always thought New Zealand was one of the freest places on the planet
They probably want to start changing your government now that they know what mistakes were made.
"There are lots of places our liberals would feel more at home, e.g. Cuba, Afghanistan, China, North Korea. New Zealand doesn't seem like it would be on the list."
The fact is, liberals won't actually move to places that follow their visions, like Cuba, North Korea, South Africa, or even France. They'll stay here where life is good so they can sit and bitch in comfort!
Why are these diversity loving freaks only interested in going to white countries?
They have no idea how much we won't miss them.I say to them, "Please, please go you tantrum throwing whack jobs."
If they leave in enough numbers, 2008 will be an easier win for the GOP.
If they think so little of this country that they would consider leaving just for the presidential election that doesn't suit them--GOOD RIDDENCE.
Of course it will die down, Liberals are like Arabs... full of lots of bravado and talk, but when it comes down to action they get their butts kicked.
All Talk, no action.
Sounds fair.
I'd been investigating Belize when it looked for a while as if John uh, John Somebody might win the election.
I told my kids they had to strip down before they could run away from home...if they were that ungrateful, they weren't taking anything with them that I had bought them : )
All I can say to the liberal cry babies is BUH-BYE!!!
Pretty funny. I have one son who probably would have taken us up on the nude thing and then we would have been arrested for child neglect----I live in a very liberal city.
Isn't raising kids fun?----Thank God I'm through with it.
L.E.A.F.
LEFTIST EXIT AMERICA FUND
Don't Whine, Just Leave
This is sort of amusing to read, but no one's leaving (the "bitching and moaning" group at DU was hysterical. The threads included "f--- the lower middle class" and had all kinds of delusions about Diebold sealing the election for Bush. Not much about PNAC though. I love the PNAC threads. A think tank with seven staffers that I'd never heard of until I saw DU. They are delusional over there).
Let's face it, if Kerry had won, life would go on here pretty much the same way. He'd do a little less on homeland security, but he really couldn't do that much less. He'd talk a good game about Iraq, but the military would basically tell him that his options were limited. The stock market would be down about as much as it rose since the election. But our country is not one of radical change. Hillarycare didn't even get to a vote despite the Dems holding the Presidency and both houses of congress by fairly wide margins.
Bush isn't going to be able to do everything he wants, unfortunately. I think that like most things in the US, they're going to be incremental. For Social Security reform, he needs to start small. Allow 1% or 2% of the 6.45% taken for Social Security to go to private accounts. Just get the ball rolling so that it can be expanded later.
Justices. Let's keep Specter at bay and appoint some decent justices. Stop this nutjob filibustering!
I'm through with it too...but they still keep coming back to haunt me : )
On the other hand, I picked up this young beauty's picture in an ad encouraging male liberals to move to France:
"revenir à moi, bel homme"
And American English at that.
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