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My point is that the “rant” is not against “regualr folk” as you call them, unless you consider regular folk people who come here with the intent to profit by exploitation of the land and the women and generally disrespect the culture in a myriad of other ways. Those Americans spoil things for everybody and they deserve to be ranted against. If you have some defense of those people and of that behavior, and that is why you are offended here, then bring it forth. This is a place to do that.
Clewis,
you may be misunderstanding what you are reading here. I am guessing that most who leave the US do so because they have a problem staying. It is either economic, political, cultural or some other reason. Of course, many are going to have little to say that is good about the place they abandoned. If you are so sensitive that you cannot read about opposing ideas or sentiments, you will be limiting yourself to information and understanding.
Of course, there are others who emigrate looking for adventure, women, exploitation for profit, exploitation for sex, etc…. I consider some of those motivations to be destructive.
“cheap meals, cheap beer, cheap housing, oh for the good ol’ days.” I ‘ll bet those days are gone for good.
As I have posted elsewhere, I believe that income disparity is a fatal, unavoidable curse and that is exactly what we are discussing here. I don’t know where the tipping point is for each country or each culture. Greece and Mexico may have reached theirs. The corruption, the riots and crime and the narco state are symptoms, not causes. How many gated communities, luxury homes and real estate consumed at high prices will it take to push Costa Rica over the edge? Or will a world wide depression be enough of a catalyst?
I suppose that the worse things get, the more North Americans begin looking to the south as an escape solution. As they (we) move south, we bring our corrupted credit- consumer culture with us thereby quickening the pace of destruction for a country already put on that path by its own central bank.
The world economy is an isolated, closed system. In physics, the concept of entropy is that nature tends from order to disorder in isolated systems. We can run, but we can’t hide. Costa Rica’s near future is probably not going to be as bright as its past until a new world economic system is put in place. And that transition is trauma on steroids.
Maravilla has lived in Mexico. I do not recall when but she mentioned this in one of her posts. Perhaps she has recent knowledge of the conditions.
I have a sister who has to travel to Mexico for business every once in a while and she tells me that she is required by her American employer to travel with body guards while there.
I have read nothing but negative reports on Mexico. A failed narco state would be last on my list of retirement places. I am sure there are regions in Mexico (Baja?) which are safer than others just as I know for a fact that there are places in Costa Rica and Miami, Florida which I would avoid. But over all, I would put Mexico next to last on my list in this Hemisphere, right above Haiti.
According to your link, the article states that he left Apple because of a desire to avoid exposure to the risk of property loss. It mentions nothing of him being a gold bug or believing in an imminent societal collapse, although, fear of property loss would have steered him to gold. However, even if this is the case, it would only show that he was off in his timing. Apparently, timing was not his strong suit.
Gold bugs have done quite well in the last 35 years. In fact, Gold has never gone to zero value in human history whereas paper has done so many, many times. In fact, paper has ALWAYS gone to zero value throughout history. This one, simple fact alone should be enough to make anyone reconsider his paper investments…especially now.
I think the time has passed for talk. Emails and blogs and conversations attempting to wake up those who are asleep won’t do enough to stop what has already been put in motion. It’s over. The elites win. As far as I can see, there are only two options: stay and resist or try to escape. Voting and writing your congress is a complete waste of time. They don’t care about us and those who control them see us as useless eaters and enemies. The only thing left for us to do is to salvage our dignity by non cooperative resistance or try to get out of the way of the coming steam roller. If you stay put, pay your taxes and mortgages, keep your money in banks and use their credit cards, you are playing right into their hands and your place in their world will turn out just as they planned.
[quote=”sapronov”]Here is the link to the latest article related to FATCA:
[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/business/law-to-find-tax-evaders-denounced.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha25]http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/business/law-to-find-tax-evaders-denounced.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha25[/url]
In spite of all objections and resistance, US keeps pushing it.[/quote]The IRS is nothing more and nothing less than an enforcement arm of the IMF. How much more evidence does one need to conclude that a global elite is making some final moves towards total, full spectrum dominance of the planet? There is nowhere to run. Costa Rica is no refuge. Sooner or later, everyone will either have to submit or make a stand.
I hope you are all aware that the language we have been using in this thread when speaking of the IRS and our “relationship” to that unconstitutional organization is exactly what could be used in describing an enemy that hunts us.
http://www.libertyforlife.com/constitution/us-16th-failed-ratification.htmThe IRS, the banks and the governments see us as either slaves to be harvested or enemies, depending upon how well we comply with their goals. President Obama quietly signed recently drafted legislation which declares American citizens as potential enemy combatants and authorizes the military and the TSA to arrest, detain indefinitely, torture or even kill us without our having recourse to courts.
http://waitingforthestorm.com/state-of-terror
Under these circumstances, it may be time for many to consider which role offers more honor and dignity; the role of obedient and fearful wage slave or that of enemy combatant.
Well put. I believe fear is one of the main tools being used to control the population. I can’t be too condescending towards all those “fearful suckers” out there who worry over every crossed T and dotted i when they file tax returns because I was once one of them. No more.
Civil disobedience has to be massive to be effective and I doubt there is enough courage left in the American public to fill a thimble even if they were all miraculously awakened. Nonetheless, there remains a moral compulsion to confront bullies wherever they appear. The IRS is one big bully. They say bullies are the biggest cowards of them all, though.
[quote=”GEEGEE”]Thank you.
Yes it is a shame, that this country is getting rated
high for this kind of behavior, child abuse and sex
with BABIES/Children. Sorry, for my ignorance on this issue but is prostitution legal here?
They have a license/health card/and they are organized by the government?
Does this include the children that are in the these Broths,
also. Does the C.R. government sanction that is is ok for children also? Like the Phillip’s?[quote=”GEEGEE”]I am told prostitution is legal in Costa Rica. I have no problem with consenting adults doing whatever they wish with each other as long as it doesn’t inconvenience me too much or happen in public. But when you have all of these emotionally and sexually retarded and broken adults from the legally repressive US culture coming to CR to pay for sex, you are bound to attract others with more egregious appetites and behaviors.
It’s best to ignore those two, Geegee. Don’t even respond.
The prevalence of pedophilia in the general population is estimated to be under 5% and about half of those offenders were victims of molestation as children. If Costa Rica is having a problem with this nasty human behavior, then much of it has to be coming from outside the country.
Praying to Jesus or whatever other Santa Claus in the clouds you have will do nothing to address this problem. Prosecuting sex tourists, whether they are here for adults or not, would seem a more pragmatic approach. Perhaps legalized prostitution is part of the problem. I am not sure but apparently, something is attracting a lot of perverted behavior to this country.
If reports can be believed, there is a general estimate from the IRS that roughly 67 million people do not file federal income tax returns. 47% of filed returns have no tax liability. Coincidentally, that is 67 million income tax returns that paid nothing in federal income taxes. Added to the 67 million who do not even bother to file, and that leaves less than half of the adult population filing and paying taxes.
Even if this is incorrect information, when one considers that NONE of the tax money collected goes for infrastructure, and most of it goes towards interest paid to thieving bankers, foreign wars and aid to murdering, terrorist proxy states like Israel, it seems insane to even consider wanting to belong to the minority of suckers who file and pay into this scheme.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/our_wiley_coyote_moment_has_arrived.htmlAguirrewar,
One would have to have really peaked the interest of the IRS to cause them to suspect that one has non taxable foreign holdings and then to cause them to undertake an investigation to confirm the suspicion. Fear is a terrible master and unfounded fear as a master is pitiful to behold.I wonder how many of the tourists representing the increase in tourism are here shopping around for a refuge from the coming economic Armageddon.
Any senior approaching retirement has to go over his/her retirement funds. The statistics regarding the viability of a comfortable retirement for most people is dismal.For some, it will be impossible. And for the many others who believe they have no problem with retirement savings, they may be unaware of the fragile nature of the economic thread holding up their 401k’s and pensions. That thread is close to breaking.
