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[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”sprite”]Spoken like a loyal slave[/quote]
You can think it it as being a slave, reasonable people generally think of it as recognizing reality rather than indulging in a private fantasy.[quote=”sprite”]I don’t feel any moral obligation to obey criminal[s]..[/quote]
Well I hate it to break it to you and further intrude on that fantasy, but you don’t get to decide who are criminals all by yourself either. If you don’t pay your taxes then you risk being the criminal, not the men and women in those black robes.Sweikert,
You don’t get it because you are so thoroughly indoctrinated. You are letting the criminals tell you who you should consider criminals. You are not thinking for yourself. You are brainwashed.The bottom line is that we are responsible for making our own moral decisions. You cannot leave that up to anyone else. You can ignore your moral responsibility, or leave it up to others, but you cannot ignore the consequences of your moral responsibility.
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I would love to see the grocery list. I don’t spend more than $2000 per month on food in Miami for three people…and we eat out often.How one can spend three grand on monthly groceries for a few people in CR is beyond my imagination.
I have read about all of these things here on this web site. On my first visit to CR, I quickly decided to buy property in the mountains of the Central Valley after spending a week at lower altitudes of the Pacific coast and around Arenal. I knew what heat and humidity are after 32 years in Miami.
I will state the obvious; Your chosen environment will never adapt itself to you. You have to adapt yourself to it so analyze carefully.[quote=”sweikert925″][/quote]
As soon as you get nominated and confirmed to the US Supreme Court your opinion will carry some weight. Until then, not so much.[/quote]Spoken like a loyal slave, Sweikert. I don’t feel any moral obligation to obey criminals even if they are wearing black magician robes or any other federal costume.
Income tax is NOT a legal tax. It is NOT a constitutional tax. It is not a moral tax. It is, therefore, not a legal, constitutional or moral debt.
Giving up US citizenship is the only way to escape the criminals in Washington DC. Even death is no escape as they are toying with the idea to claw back money from living relatives.Let’s make this very simple..because it IS simple;
People are actually more trustworthy, honest and good than we are taught to believe. Sure, the world contains broken people who do harm to others. But the over all population is made up of good people. If it were not, no amount of police and armies and governments could make it work at all. In fact, it doesn;t work that well now BECAUSE of governments and their armed enforcement goons.We are indoctrinated to distrust each other so that we can be sold the idea that we need the State to look out for us. The mafia uses the same play to sell protection. But the protection we need is from them not from each other.
Look at Costa Rica; NO ARMY. There is a small police force but my experience with CR police is that they remind me of what we used to have in the US when I was a kid…peace officers…not law enforcement officers. Say what you will about Tico inefficiency and state corruption, it is NOTHING compared to the scale of what we know exists in governments of other countries.
Try and remember your first experiences as a tourist in Costa Rica. What did you think of the absence of police uniforms? Did the lack of a need for police it make you nervous or did it make you feel relieved?
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”sprite”]You do have a strange, illogical world view.[/quote]
If that’s true then I have a lot of company. I’ve never heard of petitions being passed around to reduce the numbers of police around, but often hear people complain that there should be more of them.
You, then, are in favor of no security forces? We used to have a system like that in human society and it didn’t seem to work that well.[/quote]
I do not trust people who wear costumes and badges and who believe that those things justify their subjugating me. I don’t give ANYBODY authority over me except in special situations when I require professional medical or dental assistance..and even then, it is only temporary. I have become a confrontational old man lately. At some point in life, you just don’t want to take any more crap.
I distrust government more than the people around me by far. And these days, in the US, calling the police for help can be more life threatening than many of the problems for which they are called to resolve.
One of things I love about Costa Rica, so far, is the relative small force of uniformed, armed government people in the countryside.
I don’t know if this anecdote is significant or even news, but the wife and I were shopping at the farmer’s market in Atenas a few weeks ago and I noticed among all the beautiful, fresh local produce on display, strands of wrapped garlic with country of origin markings of “China.” The vendor explained it is cheaper to pay the import prices than to grow it. I wouldnt be surprised to see this in a super market, but at a farmer’s market?!!!
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”sprite”]… and that Costa Rica is a less secure place?[/quote]
Costa Rica IS a less secure place. I can already hear some of you preparing to scoff but I’ve been to Israel and there are security forces EVERYWHERE. What do you suppose that means to the incidence of crime?
Then there’s [url=http://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp]this website.[/url][/quote]
The very fact that you see security forces everywhere means that there is a need for it. And the fact that you feel more safe around armed costumed goons should trouble you.
You do have a strange, illogical world view.david,
Name one republic that has not gone bad. (corruption)
Name me one capitalist system that has not gone bad.(corruption)Blaming system failure on ignorance is silly because the system is designed by elites for controlling the ignorant. If you remove ignorance, the systems would be useless and would disappear because they would no longer work as control mechanisms.
You make the same near sighted mistake that many make. You are stuck with a failing system and you think that if you just tinker with components and educate the slaves, there will be a miraculous change and the system will start working as designed (forgetting the real intent of the design in the first place)
It never works. You change politicians, laws and regulations but you always end up with the same results. What is needed is a complete change of systems, not a tinkering and restructuring of proven failures like capitalism.
Dump monetary based economies and use resource based economies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zeitgeist_Movement[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”Kwhite1″]Don’t you just hate it when people beat your Rainbow Land world with logic…[/quote]
As soon as one of your posts actually contains some logic I will let you know how that makes me feel. Astonished, probably.
[quote=”Kwhite1″]… and facts.[/quote]
As for facts, well, no one has disputed the numbers you posted but they have as much to do with this subject as what time sunrise occurs in Lisbon on April 22. (By the way, you do realize that 33% is still a minority portion of the whole of something right?)The more relevant fact is how many Subway customers will react positively to the change in their menu (thereby increasing their bottom line) and how many bigots will react negatively (possibly decreasing it). And that is completely up to the owners of UK Subways to decide, not you.
People who continually blather on about freedom often mean something like this:
[i][b]*I*[/b] should be free do do whatever the hell [b]*I*[/b] want.
[b]*I*[/b] should be free do say whatever the hell [b]*I*[/b] think.
[b]*You*[/b] should also be free do do whatever the hell [b]*I*[/b] want.
[b]*You*[/b] should also be free do say whatever the hell [b]*I*[/b] think. [/i][/quote]Democracy is dedicated to the common denominator. Woe to anyone who does not belong to that common denominator. Capitalism is dedicated to profit at the expense of everything else. Woe to anyone who stands in the way of profit.
And since democracy and capitalism are mutually exclusive, we end up with so called republics. Republics are dedicated to the elites who control them. Woe to anyone who is not an elite.
[quote=”davidd”][quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”sprite”]It looks like Intel may have been ordered to make a strategic political move of assets…[/quote]
I’m curious: When Intel made its initial move into Costa Rica, on whose orders was that done?[/quote]sweikert925
that is an easy question to answer.. thank you that.
$$$ is your answer. that is who gave the order
you see INTEL made the move to costa rica NOT because of its beaches and sloths
but it was a cost efficient place to do business.
and over the years.. when that pendulum swayed the other way.. another decision was made.
because its too expensive to do business here..
simple really and if you follow the money.. and disconnect with all the noise surrounding any company or government..
follow the money
on a smaller scale… the same applies to you sweikert and the reason you want to move here..
I wish we all could see things for what they are instead of what we would like them to be.
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Israel has a much higher cost of production because of higher wages. Additionally, Israel is not safest place to put a factory or a lab. Or do you think that Costa Ricans make more than Israelii workers and that Costa Rica is a less secure place?
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”sweikert925″]Isn’t Reuter’s part of the mainstream press? [/quote]
And Agence France Presse and the Business Insider?
This Intel story is mostly ignored by US mainstream broadcast news.The point is that most North Americans don’t care about any news which is not related to their favorite TV show or sports team or which has no “entertainment” value.
Additionally, even if exposed to this story, most Americans will not see the political implications and background for the move.
This is a big deal for Costa Rica. I doubt we will see anything come along to fill the vacuum Intel has left behind as the the western economy shrinks and consolidates and moves toward the big “reset”. Grit your teeth and clench your sphincter muscle and get ready for the ride.Tourism is more important now since Intel is closing shop here. It looks like Intel may have been ordered to make a strategic political move of assets to another area:
http://phys.org/news/2014-05-intel-bn-israel.htmlTwo or three hundred a month for CAJA still beats the hell out of what the costs are in the States. It doesn’t look like a deal breaker if it stays like this.
Regarding Guanacaste heat; NO WAY! I note that residents there say that they have learned to tolerate the heat without air conditioning. I have to wonder why anyone would resign oneself to “tolerate” such heat without air conditioning. What is given in return for such a sacrifice?
If it is nearness to the beaches, that can be achieved with a short drive from the Central Valley where the temperatures can be enjoyed, not merely tolerated. Life is too short to be living under tolerated conditions. After over 32 years of living in air conditioned Miami, I no not ever want to experience heat over 90 degrees, with or without a breeze. And I suspect those that do on a regular basis must put a hell of a spin on things in order to accept the unacceptable, uncomfortable heat.
