Seriously if you are close to retirement and have a decent amount less any more raids on buying power to work with think about south of the border. My medical is paid out of pocket since the various ACA and my militry retirement won't work across the border. I'm now trying a VA signup as the nearest facility does have good practitioners in the cataract field of medicine but even if I do it here it's $2,000 US. From the looks of it anything north of the border would include travel, motel and meal expenses for most plus the co pay and deductible etc.

Also the medical care and cost of medicine makes most of it out of pocket affordable even for my not so rico monthly stipend.

Several of us on the forum reside south while retaining citizenship and involvement north. but I don't want to have to live in a flophouse at US prices when I can live decent middle class on the pesos exchange.

Sometimes no rules for one and all rules for the others.

well 46% of the available voting pool have opted out That's the next honest vote to cast. Call it None of the Above or call it Consent Withdrawn. It's better than flushing your vote into a pig pen, playing pick a pig, or the new one choosing the Evil of Two Lessers. Doesn't look like the military is going to honor their oath of office either they must be voting for 'you aren't worth it anymore."

Sit back and start planning the next Republic.

One change from earlier years. No more stockades which acted like a county jail for each fort or base. The military goes from light weight administrative type fines and restrictions to ejection from the military entirely to incarceration in federal prisons. Like it' s civilian counterpart it's following changes of society and making some drug use legal. How that particular change affects the people that operate the devices the presidential nuclear trigger can activate is another question. If it's even thought about. I can tell you being in the barracks in the USA in the 70's was no picnic because of drugs and some of us carried loaded weapons and barricaded our rooms from the inside. i lasted until the first pay day and having a car moved off post at my own expense until I could transfer to a decent unit with out the in barracks crime problem. That was the 82nd Airborne Division then known as the Jumping Junkies. Vietnam in the 101st Airmobile a much more pleasant place.