At what point does Atlas shrug???
Posted by AmericanGreatness 9 years, 9 months ago to Politics
Time to seriously consider becoming an expat...
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They penalize you/fine you for renouncing your citizenship! They will extract their pound of flesh.
The IRS has become a political arm of the administration... It is an Hydra already... many heads and arms. Always growing and when you cut off one appendage two more grow... How to escape? that is the question.
Respectfully,
O.A.
Question: At what point does Atlas Shrug??
Answer:
“...when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.”
― Tony Robbins
One should not get a welfare check as a tax refund however or be called a home owner when they are a home buyer or be allowed to donate to a political campaign outside their geo-political area of interest nor donate time, materials nor money if they do not have the right to vote. The last of which would wipe out soft money contributions completely.
I fear it will take another Boston Massacre... The ennui is palpable. Is it not?
Regards,
O.A.
I am in your camp. I am just frustrated sometimes when I have recently run into too many know-nothings. You know the kind. They walk around like zombies unaware of what is happening in the world... They don't vote and of many that do it is a good thing, since they are ill-informed, or contaminated with statist ideology.
We need to see many more young people with the spirit of 76 instilled instead of drilled out of them by today's so called "education system."
I do what I can to edify the generations of youth in my family and to anyone else that will listen.
I just hope our words are having an impact.
Carpe diem,
O.A.
"Most people can’t think, most of the remainder won’t think, the small fraction who do think mostly can’t do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self -delusion— in the long run, these are the only people who count." —Robert A. Heinlein
I told her there was no need for me to speak to her.
Nor would you have to hide from a mirror in shame.
Revolutionary War less than ten percent of the population of the 13 States actively supported that effort. You can do a lot and the first step is turning your back on the Government Party under either one of it's two other names.
The path we are on leads to inevitable collapse either way. The question that remains is a matter of time frame. Will we live to rejoice in the day when a new beginning can become manifest? I have already lived significantly longer than my grandfathers... Faith... Rand would say "I do not have faith, I have convictions." I like that! Apologies if that sounded pedantic. It was not my intention... just a recollection that burst out.
Best wishes,
O.A.
I'll try to avoid too many question marks. :) Indeed. Section 1: Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
I have reviewed some of your recent comments.The Constitution is your friend. :)
Respectfully,
O.A.
I don't sense building frustration, unfortunately. I don't think this issue is on the radar for many people. There's a lot of " what should government do about XYZ?" but not much questioning of whether government's should be reduced overall even if on the surface its intrusiveness catches a kidnapper and provides "free" education, medicine, etc.
When the government cuts down a group of citizen protesters, like what occurred at the Boston Massacre even the most timid must stand against the tyranny, if not in deed at least in sympathy and words. It would be the Casus belli. Nothing short seems to enrage the blissfully ignorant masses.
Regards,
O.A.
Indeed I do. I do not relish or promote the idea. The question LS posed was "...when are real americans going to start marching in the streets? What the hell will it take?" The possible outcomes are a different matter. Now, I do feel that if enough Americans took to the streets O may not get what he wants, but history is replete with examples of bad outcomes too. The critical calculus is where the military would come down, in such an event.
Regards,
O.A.
WH Golfer!!
Beyond that the strategy depends on how much money you have, but the idea of picking a nasty dictatorship is so that if your attempted coup or revolution backfires, you at least haven't ruined one of the relatively nice countries.
If I had the kind of money Bill Gates has, I'd simply offer the dictator and his buddies a nice retirement home and pension on a tropical beach somewhere, in exchange for going away. Then I'd make that country the next Hong Kong, so the people become rich as well as free. Then move on to the next nasty dictatorship and do it again!
I imagine the newly formed Gulch in the developing country would have to do some favorable deals with big companies who have relationships with gov'ts, in exchange for being left alone. It has to be kind of like the founders doing established nations' dirty work for them. So if you had an imperfect but freer post-nation state (Gulch) paying indirect protection money to looters, you'd be shooting par. As you get more powerful, you can fight back more against the protection racket.
I would love for someone to prove me wrong and create an ideal Gulch.
Funny thing is they don't get it. They were too busy reading ,"The Jungle."
the country is in free fall. the brain dead leaders(?) living it up in wash dc are working in concert regardless what you may think against the working part of the population and obviously do not know what they are doing. we have morphed into a basic dictatorship of sorts and there is no opposition to it. regardless who gets the job next NOTHING will change.
get used to it. and if you want a place to go to do the research and become a survivalist. all of the hostilities taking place all over the world leave little place to go to, maybe the australian out back.
http://youtu.be/L92rESdzhjU
Sad. Just more evidence of the inane and corrupt thinking in DC. NO concept of Unintended Consequences....
Poems on a plaque at the Statue of Liberty are that... They shouldn't be the basis for an immigration policy.
My statement is about the outcome hoped for by the Marxist progressives.
Legally, an illegal is an illegal is an illegal.
I recall a photo of an illegal holding a sign that said he would shoot police if he did not get amnesty.
Yesterday I read an article that states Obobo wants to throw huge chunks of Social Security amnesty prize money at illegals at the tune of several thousand each.
Well, I'm retired and need that secondary income. So no thank you, Presidebt Omoocho!
"Illegals" are only the enemies of Republicans because Republicans choose to be their enemies.
There is also the issue of cost. As Milton Friedman correctly asserted, a country can not have a welfare society and open borders.