I was told by another blogger that: "The door is that way. Don't let it hit you in the ass." The words "that way" were a link to the US State Department web page on Renunciation of US Citizenship.
I want to secede from the whole nation
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Don’t get me wrong, I love America: The Constitution and Bill of Rights, our common law tradition. The English invented individual rights, Americans merely perfected and wrote them down as part of our body of law. Americans are generous and mostly kind people, and I am proud to be an American for these reasons alone. I would like to live on the Sonoma coast in northern California, and some day I will.
But, our society as the body politic has become a “something for nothing society.” Our politicians have become con artists, who’s existence (and recent success) is only to satisfy the vulgar something for nothing wishes of voters who have no morals or common sense, and the goals of the AARP are a perfect example. The public debt can never be re-payed, as it has become so huge that repudiation is the most likely end game. I am so sorry for my country.
My grandfather came here in 1903 from Slovakia with nothing; he found a job in a steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He then started to buy lots and build houses and rented them out. He retired, living off of the rents of the multi-unit apartment building he owned in Sherman Oaks, California. He has always been my shining example.
Zak,
Your grandfather is and should be a shining example to all people, namely Americans. From its founding to present, America has been known as “The Land of Opportunity.”
It never fails to amaze me that immigrants (mostly legal) continue to come here and build their fortunes, much like your grandfather did. Yet, people born here piss and moan, while holding their hands out for Government aid. When you think about it, the taxes your grandfather paid afforded some spoiled American-born, “something for nothing” lazy crybaby the “opportunity” to sit on his can and complain about the “lack” of opportunity he has to succeed.
I think hardworking immigrants throw a wrench into the liberals’ propaganda that people need liberals to help them make it in this tough, racist, greedy country.
Thanks Zak
Yeah America is still the real land of opportunity. A land where a man can slave for minimum wage until he can buy land that is rediculously overpriced with a mortgage he will be paying the rest of his life. A land that used to allow everyone to be self-sustaining, but now allows everyone to work their ass off so that their production can be reaped by the head of a corporation.
God bless America, land that was lovable before the 1950′s.