I'm glad I left....

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BooScout  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Sep-04-09 06:24 PM
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I'm glad I left....   Updated at 6:24 PM
   
4 Years ago I packed my bags and upped sticks to the UK. It was part of a long range plan that my husband and I made to live and retire in the UK. I confess that part of our reasoning for leaving then was political, while we always planned to settle in the UK since my husband is English.....we did move our timetable up by a few years because the timing was opportune for us and both of us had had a gut full of Bush et al.

No country is perfect. In fact, most countries are far from perfect. But I have to say, the polarization I am seeing now over universal health care and now something so innocuous as the President of the United States of America giving a speech to the nation's school children and encouraging them to work hard and stay in school makes me so wonder if there really is any hope for America.

I've got friends from the States emailing me asking me to relay any information and help I can regarding the possibility of them immigrating here to the UK or Europe. They see no hope of the Right Wing ever trying to reach any middle ground....and they speak of the Right attempting to block anything and everything that Democrats try to achieve.

Looking at it all from afar, perhaps I see things differently......but to be honest.....I can't say I'm surprised. I thought when Bush achieved a 2nd term that even if the Democrats regained control of the White House and/or Congress in a post-Bush era, it would take a miracle to get back all that was lost. I do wonder whether anyone can fix what is so broken.

I have no regrets for leaving. I love my country, but I'm glad I left.

A DUmmie that finally left.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6466368

[franksolich]

A DUmmie that finally left.

But not for one of the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, which the primitives admire so much.

Better had the primitive moved to Cuba or North Korea or China or Zimbabwe.

[thundley4]

Does it really count as leaving since her husband is English?  That would be like my wife saying she was tired of living in New York so we moved to Illinois, the state that I am from.

OTOH, the husband may have told her that he was moving to England and she could come along or stay here.  She fooled him, she chose to go.

[franksolich]

Does it really count as leaving since her husband is English?  That would be like my wife saying she was tired of living in New York so we moved to Illinois, the state that I am from.

OTOH, the husband may have told her that he was moving to England and she could come along or stay here.  She fooled him, she chose to go.

Very true, thundley, sir.

This reminds me of the NanceGreggs idiot, who lives in Canada because her husband is Canadian, and had worked in the United States for a while.

Then he had to move back to Canada.

The NanceGreggs idiot made it sound as if she had moved to Canada because she couldn't stand George Bush.

The primitives are always cloaking their real motives with a facade of nobility and sacrifice.

[Texacon]

Ya know.  It always strikes me when I see posts like this.  They don't want Checks and Balances!  They would prefer to ramrod everything through with no debate because "it is in our own best interests" whether we know it or not.

Screw that.  This nation was built on checks and balances.  I don't want anyone having the power to shoot stuff through without any oversight.

KC

[CC27]

But not for one of the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, which the primitives admire so much.

Better had the primitive moved to Cuba or North Korea or China or Zimbabwe.

I would pay for the airfare.

[dutch508]

I would pay for the airfare.

thirty-seven cents for nine grams is cheaper than airfare for a fat worthless DUmpmonkie.

[GOBUCKS]

Well, now, England is pretty much socialist already and, like mainland Europe, well on its way to being an islamic republic.
But it isn't a workers' paradise like Cuba, North Korea, China, or Zimbabwe.

[crockspot]

Amazing the amount of responders who want to leave still. Don't they have the white house and both houses of congress now? And they STILL want to leave?

[The Village Idiot]

<I>They see no hope of the Right Wing ever trying to reach any middle ground
<P>
and the middle ground is a communist tyranny one party personality cult?

[formerlurker]

I have no regrets for leaving. I love my country, but I'm glad I left.

So am I. 

[jtyangel]

Let's hope the NHS doesn't have to make any end of life decisions for this moonbat:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6127514/Sentenced-to-death-on-the-NHS.html

In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.

Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away.


snip


Forecasting death is an inexact science,”they say. Patients are being diagnosed as being close to death “without regard to the fact that the diagnosis could be wrong.

“As a result a national wave of discontent is building up, as family and friends witness the denial of fluids and food to patients.

Read that again, folks! Unlike the case of Terry Schiavo that there at least was a legal battle to decide if food and fluids should be denied, the family has no recourse at all. Doctors, arguably way underpaid and probably not the brightest under a national system that probably caps their pay, get to make end of life decisions.

It amazes me that the same group of people(DUmmies) who thinks people should decide into which orifice they put their man gear without any judgement of any kind and any influence from any group of people, think that taking the decisions for one's healthcare out of their hands and putting it into the hands of doctors(influenced by their bosses the government in this case) and government officials is a good thing. They never seem to get that they are for a certain kind of forced morality, it is just different then conservatives. I want no part of it.

I've said many times here, my grandmother lost her life under NHS while waiting a very long time to have a scan for something suspicious in her abdomen(enough time for a cancer to go from localized and treatable to metasticized and terminal). The idea that this is an adequate and preferable system to a few people falling through the cracks for whatever reason is proposterous. And I still can't get an answer from a liberal as to why it is so objectionable that people have to pay a portion of their healthcare costs.

[JohnnyReb]

like mainland Europe, well on its way to being an islamic republic.
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Yep, Islamic problem plus now an influx of American moonbats...England is doomed.

[LC EFA]

BooScout  (1000+ posts)  Fri Sep-04-09 06:24 PM
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I'm glad I left....   Updated at 6:24 PM
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No country is perfect. In fact, most countries are far from perfect. But I have to say, the polarization I am seeing now over universal health care and now something so innocuous as the President of the United States of America giving a speech to the nation's school children and encouraging them to work hard and stay in school makes me so wonder if there really is any hope for America.
...

Am I the only one that noticed this ?

WTF ?

[The Village Idiot]

Am I the only one that noticed this ?
WTF ?

Is he out of hope?

[Airwolf]

I guess all of President Eurkels hope and change didn't work out for all the Dummies

[terry]

Amazing the amount of responders who want to leave still. Don't they have the white house and both houses of congress now? And they STILL want to leave?

That's what I thought too.  I guess they are finally realizing that no matter which party is in power, they really don't matter and no one really cares about what they want.

[Texacon]

That's what I thought too.  I guess they are finally realizing that no matter which party is in power, they really don't matter and no one really cares about what they want.

You could never give them enough free stuff to want to stay.  No matter what you gave them ... someone else would always have more thus making them unhappy.

KC