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[quote=”rfs1975″]It would appear that the current socialist regime in the US is [url=http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/18253-critics-mount-constitutional-attack-on-dreaded-fatca-tax-regime]being challenged on FACTA[/url]
[/quote]PLEASE!!! the US regime is NOT socialist. It is fascist or oligarchic. Look to Nazi Germany for examples, not to the Soviet Union.
This is not just word play. Costa Rica has a socialist government. There is a difference.
I am not defending socialism but I am sick and tired of hearing right wing brainwashing terminology which confuses perception of the reality.Thanks for the monthly expense list. It looks to be pretty close to what I expected.
2000 feet of altitude is not quite enough to avoid tropical heat. I think 3000 feet and above is enough altitude to avoid the need for air conditioning.
I am sorry you feel stuck. But all things are relative. For positive perspective, be happy you are not in the States. There is a high probability that life in the good old USA may be experiencing a huge, ugly change in the near future. And even without that change, you have fewer options for inexpensive lifestyles in the US. We all know of expats living happily or otherwise in CR on far less than $2000 per month. You CANNOT live on that amount in the US. And soon, many, many people there will be facing this situation. Once you begin reading about riots in Los Angeles, Chicago ands New York, you may be thanking your self for moving to Costa Rica.I thought I read somewhere that one requirement for citizenship was the ability to sing or recite the Costa Rican national anthem. I have been unable to find anything that confirms this. Is this true?
I am thoroughly fluent in Spanish and I know that learning a foreign language is more difficult the older one gets. How many expats in Costa Rica are fluent in Spanish sufficient to this task?I am talking specifically about US income tax, the most onerous, unconstitutional tax on the planet. I am not talking about Costa Rican taxes. You must be able to see the difference between a gentle state with no standing military like CR and a murderous oligarchic empire armed to the teeth like the US.
Governments, in general, are corrupt and criminal in varying degrees. Costa Rica was the first Central American country to sign on to new IRS capital control measures, FATCA. And I don’t doubt that those governments which oppose the US hegemony are also corrupt. We are left with poor choices. Costa Rica seems to be one of the better choices among all the very poor choices.I have no problem with renouncing my US citizenship once I have a passport from another country to replace the US one.
This has NOTHING to do with greed for money on my part.For over a hundred years now, the international banking cartel, via the government, has hollowed out the wealth of the US and has kept the US in a perpetual state of war all across the planet. I want NO part of that. If you pay income tax, you are funding the mass murder of children. Period.
If you use the language of the sociopaths who run things and claim the deaths of all those innocent children are collateral damage in defense of freedom, you have become a sociopath by exposure to their system.
[quote=”pixframe”]You really can’t help yourself from having to get in the last word.[/quote]
Sweikert and I may not agree on much but we both seem to enjoy winding up people with comments. Just remember to be civil, lighthearted, sincere snd as concise as your writing skills permit.
I have been reading about imminent economic crash/rest for the last 4 years. It has not been very “imminent” so far. But more and more indicators of such a dramatic event keep piling up while the actual world economy continues to slowly grind down.
Meanwhile, a huge segment of the population appears to be totally ignorant of this horrific probability. When I asked on this message board if anyone had any “plan B” in place for the potential loss of income while living in Costa Rica, I got no response..as if this would never be something about which to be concerned. Is it apathy, denial or ignorance?
Perhaps, like Chicken Little, I have been hit on the head by an acorn and falsely believe the sky is falling. OR…the sky is falling. Either way, it is not entirely useless to contemplate a plan B.
Kwhite,
I am interested to see how the coming economic “reset” will effect expats in Costa Rica. Money upon which many expats rely may dry up and not just social security. And speaking of social security, upon which pensionista status relies, what does Costa Rican migration law say about cessation of social security checks?
[quote=”pixframe”][quote=”sweikert925″] I’m sorry to hear that. I happen to think there is a great deal of wisdom in the Bible regardless of whether you accept the supernatural dogma. The Sermon on the Mount by itself is worth putting the Bible up there with the greatest moral texts. (And something a couple people who contribute to this message board should read or re-read when they get the chance). [/quote]
This is the same Book where every innocent child on the face of the Earth (other than the children of Noah) were drowned along with their parents and later, in two cities (Sodom & Gomorrah), again the innocent children and their parents were brutally killed by fire and brimstone. There are times when extreme measures need to be taken to make things right again.[/quote]
Now I see where the psychotic attitudes come from. The god of the bible chooses option two sometimes as well. Thankfully there are more and more of us who have dumped that silly book written by Iron Age savages who sacrificed children and animals to their imaginary god.
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”sprite”]Most of us would help.[/quote]
The key word there is “most”.
[quote=”sprite”]The problem is that we are born into unnatural social circumstances, we find ourselves living in huge societies called nations. People don’t function humanely in such impossibly large groups.[/quote]
Some of us seem to manage it. Others choose not to.
Your hypothesis that people who live in small groups have no callous, cruel and greedy people has been disproved by countless real world examples. If you believe the bible, when there were only 4 people in the entire world – Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel – it still resulted in one of the four murdering another one purely out of jealousy.
“Society made me do it” is not valid as an excuse for people who are callous, cruel and greedy.[/quote]
I don’t look to the Bible for anything at all. There is nothing of value there.
Small communities which are isolated within a nation and mostly insulated from the larger surrounding culture and which do not suffer scarcities of the basic necessities of life tend to be more nurturing of their offspring and more likely to share with each other. There are plenty of examples odf this in remote areas. In those remote areas, you don’t find starvation and malnutrition of children who are surrounded by wealth and plenty as you do in the US.
How do you otherwise explain the barbarous attitude of someone who says he would not lift a finger to help a child living in deprivation in order to punish parents who are unable or unwilling to do so? This is a sociopathic attitude and has to be the product of a sociopathic culture.
I am sorry, but anyone who honestly chose option two is displaying characteristics of a psychopath.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/psychopathUnder what I call normal circumstances, if you knew a child who was suffering serious deprivation and you could help, you probably would. Most of us would help.
The problem is that we are born into unnatural social circumstances, we find ourselves living in huge societies called nations. People don’t function humanely in such impossibly large groups. We evolved, like dogs, to function in packs, tribal groupings of 25 members or less.
Today, a sub species of sociopathic elites are herding us into larger groupings with the ultimate goal of one huge group with a withered population they can control. Along the way to that goal, we lose our humanity hence you have people who let children starve to death rather than contribute a few dollars of their own wealth to stop it. Sociopathy is contagious.
[quote=”pixframe”][quote=”sweikert925″]So you have 3 possible alternatives:
(2) Stop providing for them to show those dirty stinkin’ poor people they can’t get away with their shameful behavior
[quote=”pixframe”] I vote for #2[/quote]
[quote=”Imxploring”]I vote for #2 as well[/quote]
What is there left to say to a pair that are willing to let innocent children suffer in order to punish their parents for behavior they disapprove of?[/quote]Under what I call normal circumstances, if you knew a child who was suffering serious deprivation and you could help, you probably would. Most of us would help.
The problem is that we are born into unnatural social circumstances, we find ourselves living in huge societies called nations. People don’t function humanely in such impossibly large groups. We evolved, like dogs, to function in packs, tribal groupings of 25 members or less.
Today, a sub species of sociopathic elites are herding us into larger groupings with the ultimate goal of one huge group with a withered population they can control. Along the way to that goal, we lose our humanity hence you have people who let children starve to death rather than contribute a few dollars of their own wealth to stop it.I can’t speak for Imx (don’t know the guy but do like what he has to say) but I can speak for myself. You are misplacing the guilt. It belongs at the source … totally and completely, 100%, it belongs to the parents who brought into the world children they knowingly couldn’t or wouldn’t support and nurture.[/quote]
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”sprite”]I will disparage the military. Soldiers are at the root of evil regardless of whichever uniform they wear.[/quote]
I really hope you rethink that statement. Don’t blame the solider for doing his or her duty. Even in this age when they are all volunteers they (and their families) still make huge sacrifices for each and every one of us. The very least we can do is thank them.The root of all evil is actually greed and selfishness. That seems pretty clear – to me, anyway.
[quote=”sprite”] Cooperation between people is normal. [/quote]
Yes, you only have to read the comments on this message board to see how truly cooperative we all are with each other LOL.[/quote]
As I said, soldiers are the problem, not the solution. You guys should really think a little about what you are saying. Chinese send soldiers to invade your country and you think the solution is to have your own form of evil (soldiers)as a defense? Fighting fire with fire just makes a bigger fire.By the way, Sweikert, we cooperate on this message board. I don’t see any need for military intervention here.
I will disparage the military. Soldiers are at the root of evil regardless of whichever uniform they wear. As always, it is an individual decision to kill whether the State orders you to do so or not.
Costa Rica decided it did not need soldiers. Take that sentiment to its ultimate position and it is obvious that the State is also not needed. Cooperation between people is normal. We don’t need a state. Anti social behavior is the exception. The State and it’s military are the cause for conflict and anti social behavior on great scale.
You have to decide whether or not you will let others have dominion over you at the point if a gun or not. You don’t make that decision while wearing a uniform.[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”sprite”]The bottom line is that we are responsible for making our own moral decisions. [/quote]
Of course! Moral decisions are up to each and every one of us. Legal ones, unfortunately, are not.
Of course now that I have been set straight I now see that we have no need for courts and legislatures and police to tell us all what is legal and what is not – we can just ask you. Who knew!
But I do have to wonder, why is it [b]you [/b]that gets to decide that and not, say, [b]me[/b], for instance?[/quote]
Acceptable social behavior is based on morality, a product of culture. It is NOT based on law. Morality cannot be legislated. Likewise it cannot be enforced.
I decide, based on my cultural upbringing, what behavior is right and what is wrong in the world. I do NOT surrender that obligation to the State.
The difference between you and I is that I take full responsibility for my behavior even though I did not choose the culture from which it is based. You let the state dictate your behavior and your world view. Whether your blind obedience is out of brainwashing or out of fear doesn’t matter. The result is that you wear mental shackles.
