Posted by
Dave Kooker on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:40:58 AM
I figure that I am on an eleven-year plan. In eleven years, my son will be eighteen and I hope that I have done a good job of educating him on life’s skills and wisdom needed to be a moral self-reliant adult. At that point I will make the decision of whether I will seek greener pastures outside of America. Who knows, maybe my son will follow me.
I feel blessed to have been born and raised in this great Federal Republic but I have had some serious doubts about the future of this country. As countries in the European Union wrestle on how to shed to shackles of servitude to socialism, America seems more than willing to pursue the same failed social experiment and learn the same lesson. Too bad we can’t seem to learn the lessons of others.
For example in France, France is trying to lift the government burden on the high achievers and the wealthy. Not too long ago, Sarkozy spoke in London England addressing French expatriates asking them to please come back. In fact there are 300,000 French expatriates that Sarkozy hopes to come back. It is a fact that socialism chases away high-achievement and wealth.
If America is persistent in being a socialist ‘Nanny’ state, an entrepreneur, self-reliant high achiever, with wealth will probably be perceived as an enemy of the state and could be punished.
Another problem is how America treats it’s own citizens versus how it treats illegal aliens. There is not a Federal and/or State government entitlement that our government won’t refuse to our illegal aliens. You start your life as an illegal resident in America and get free compensation, food, housing, health care, legal aid, and in essence immunity from prosecution for committed crimes. How great is that…….
As a legal American citizen, it is a real slap in the face to live my life within the Federal/State/Local government legal framework and to sacrifice my income to the highest Federal income tax rate.
In eleven years, if things don’t improve I may be an American Expatriate and I will take my wealth overseas. But don’t worry, I will be back with my hand out screaming for all the socialist entitlements that I believe that I deserve as an non-American citizen while I am thumbing my nose at the laws that I do not have to obey.