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NoodleyAppendage (1000+ posts) 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 Mon Dec-13-10 02:32 PMOriginal messageDisillusioned American Liberal Looking for a New Country. Suggestions? Obama has been the straw that broke my confidence in our country's ability to avoid outright oligarchy/corporate hegemony. I feel like a person without a home now. I don't recognize the Democratic Party anymore...at least the one that I thought was for social justice and providing for the "greater good." I am depressed about the course of our country and the President who essentially lied his way into office as a populist progressive.Thankfully, I spent hard hours at school to obtain an advanced degree in the sciences and have some freedom to relocate my family. I'm uncertain as to where, though. Ideally, I would like to settle in a country where the economy is stable, immigrants from America are not problematic, and liberal/progressive ideals are the norm.Not to sound too melodramatic, but in the back of my mind I don't want my family to be like those who didn't get out of occupied Germany during the early 30s when the opportunity still existed. I fear that a window for relocation may be closing...a thought I never believed would ever enter my mind.Any suggestions?
bobbolink Donating Member (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 Mon Dec-13-10 02:36 PMResponse to Reply #35. And we poor and homeless people can just suck it up, eh?
CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) 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 Mon Dec-13-10 04:08 PMResponse to Reply #2331. I talked with a couple who had retired to France. They were required to have lots of money in an account which was essentially "frozen" by the government to assure that they would not become a burden and destitute. They were both early retired doctors, early 60s. I got the feeling they had lots of money. They found a little house in Tours. Since they had no kids they weren't bound up in the U.S. any more. They sold the house they had back in PA.One of the issues they anticipated was how to deal with their status vs. paying into Medicare. They have an attorney there helping them.
MilesColtrane Donating Member (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 Mon Dec-13-10 04:11 PMResponse to Original message32. Just do us a favor after you leave, please. Don't come on DU and constantly post about what a shithole we who have stayed live in.
It's times like these I wish I had a mole at DU, because I would literally follow Bobbo the Hobo around and answer her questions. Yes, you can just suck it up. Or you can shut up and get a job and make something of your life.
They would ban you the first time.
I know. But it would be gloriously fun. I don't get why Bobbo is such an entity over there. The whining makes me want to slap the shit out of her. My four year old whines less!
Disillusioned American Liberal Looking for a New Country. Suggestions?
NoodleyAppendage (1000+ posts) 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 Mon Dec-13-10 02:32 PMOriginal messageDisillusioned American Liberal Looking for a New Country. Suggestions?
bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Dec-13-10 02:36 PMResponse to Reply #35. And we poor and homeless people can just suck it up, eh?
"The nation that couldn’t be conquered by foreign enemies has been conquered by its elected officials" odawg Free Republic in reference to the GOP Elites who are no difference than the Democrats
CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Dec-13-10 04:08 PMResponse to Reply #2331. I talked with a couple who had retired to France. They were required to have lots of money in an account which was essentially "frozen" by the government to assure that they would not become a burden and destitute.
And no complaints at all about other Countries screening non-citizens coming in and trying to avoid them becoming a burden? what a novel concept that we should start doing here.
