The democrat destruction of this country via the welfare system!!!

[Lafayette]

AMERICAN EXPATS BY COUNTRY

From here:

Here is an estimated look (not including ex-military personnel) of American expats by country. Not surprisingly, neighboring Canada and Mexico top the list.

Each country's number of expats:

• Mexico 799,000
• Canada 273,000
• United Kingdom 171,000
• Germany 153,000
• Australia 117,000
• Israel 77,000
• South Korea 68,000
• France 62,000
• Japan 58,000
• Spain 57,000
• Italy 54,000
• Philippines 38,000
• New Zealand 36,000

For a comparison with the US, I count all those above who live in the European Union: 497K, that is, about half-a-million. Which is not the total of all exports regardless of where they live in the US or abroad but remain citizens of the US. (If one does not renew their passport, their citizenship is revoked.)

Remember, "expats" mean living-abroad of American-nationality but not necessarily of US birth. They could be immigrants that obtained a US-citizenship and then decided to return to their country of origin.

If you are an American-nation but foreign immigrant to the US, you can renew your passport - which is required for reentry. Without a valid (dated) passport, your reentry could be questioned. It's lotsa-fun waiting at the airport for the authorities to investigate your citizenship because your passport is out of date ....

Meaning any foreign citizen with an American passport could return at any time to the US as citizens but with a current passport should they chose to do so. Which is why when you are at a foreign airport (outside the US) and will take a plane back to the US, they always ask to see your passport (even if you were born in the US) ...

 

[Lafayette]

dqsdq

 

[Daddyo]

Oh, boy! A PREPPER!

Did you buy those meal buckets and make a bunker out of a manky old conex box yet?

Not yet lol. I won’t be prepping like that.

I have positioned myself more into precious metals and made some other hedge type moves. Have worked out some details with family and friends to insure that we as a group are positioned to have an easier go of any collapse. Necessary meds, food, and other supplies to cushion a collapse. Mutual security to deal with the expected spike in crime.

Things that happened in Venezuela we will prepare for.

And you joke about it all you like. We are in a deep recession right now. The idiot running the country will only make it worst just like he did inflation and gas prices. Better to be safe than sorry.

 

[Daddyo]

The evil Liberals have been taking over for 60 years, and Conservatives are too stupid an ineffective to stop it. No wonder the majority of the country see them as a joke.

After the election in November the joke will be on you.

And conservatives aren’t stupid. We simply are busy working, taking care of family, and insuring that leftist parasites are fed and housed. Your leftist agenda is your religion. Your side eats and sleeps it. Trump exposed the fake news. Covid lockdowns exposed leftist nazi like politicians as they crushed and silenced any opposition. Bias social media has been exposed. School lockdowns have exposed disgusting and racist curriculum. We are awake now friend. November will show you just how.

And sadly you were partly correct. Conservatives were too ineffective to stop it. Like the frog in the pot of water. Leftist filth took tiny little pieces and over time well we see the results.

You are wrong however with this, the majority doesn’t see us as a joke. You have no majority. It’s why unfettered illegal immigration is so important. Your side has lost many blacks, Hispanics, and moderates. How are leftist filth seen? As America hating socialists and not very intelligent. It’s why they lose every debate.

 

[Daddyo]

THE RABID-RIGHT JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS?



Show me concrretely your definitive source of the above inanity or you are just farting-into-a-forum!

I shouldn’t have to cut and paste or link to a site to make you understand that the majority of violent crime is gang and drug related. That is well known and easily sources should you not believe it.

I also shouldn’t have to convince you that most gang violence is committed by black and brown gangs. It is simply unacceptable that you would be that ignorant of this issue.

Finally it is well known that minorities, even with recent Republican gains, break overwhelmingly left.

So it isn’t really hard to follow if you have even a pinch of critical thinking skills. Easy to research aswell.

And look guys JUST BECAUSE THERE ISNT A STUDY SAYING BLACK AND BROWN GANG BANGERS ARE DEMOCRATS doesn’t mean it isn’t the case. You guys constantly demand proof you know doesn’t exist despite knowing without a doubt that it’s ****ing as true as the sky being blue. Just a pathetic avoidance ploy.

 

[Lafayette]

What a weak response.

Oh? And where's yours ... ?

 

[Lafayette]

So it isn’t really hard to follow if you have even a pinch of critical thinking skills. Easy to research aswell.

And look guys JUST BECAUSE THERE ISNT A STUDY SAYING BLACK AND BROWN GANG BANGERS ARE DEMOCRATS doesn’t mean it isn’t the case. You guys constantly demand proof you know doesn’t exist despite knowing without a doubt that it’s ****ing as true as the sky being blue. Just a pathetic avoidance ploy.

I prefer the "data" when considering any argument. Which is far more cogent in understanding what is going on in any given situation. And, as regards economics, the data is plentiful. You just need to know how to find it.

I could care less about your "pinch of critical thinking". Which is a piss-poor manner of conducting a debate amongst supposedly intelligent people. It's a feeble excuse for not knowing how to find the Factual Evidence of any given economic-situation.

What matters is that "factual evidence", and not your poor notion of "critical thinking skills".

Learn how to debate ... it is a matter of factual-evidence when the subject is economics. And, of course, this is an economics forum. even though its name is "General Political Discussion"!

When there are no referees, as here, the debate goes in all directions. That is both goodness and badness - whichever is a small matter of our own discretion ....

 

[Daddyo]

Then he should have "said it" in print here!

But, he didn't, did he ... ?

Gang violent is the root cause!

Not all but MOST gangs are black and Hispanic. If that offends you sorry but I don’t care. We are having a debate here. There is no way to accurately explain the root cause of violent crime without describing the source.

 

[Daddyo]

Then he should have the courage to "say it" in the forum ... !

I do have the courage and I did say it. And sure as sunrise the leftists begin the racist attacks. Lol.

 

[pocket aces]

After the election in November the joke will be on you.

And conservatives aren’t stupid. We simply are busy working, taking care of family, and insuring that leftist parasites are fed and housed. Your leftist agenda is your religion. Your side eats and sleeps it. Trump exposed the fake news. Covid lockdowns exposed leftist nazi like politicians as they crushed and silenced any opposition. Bias social media has been exposed. School lockdowns have exposed disgusting and racist curriculum. We are awake now friend. November will show you just how.

And sadly you were partly correct. Conservatives were too ineffective to stop it. Like the frog in the pot of water. Leftist filth took tiny little pieces and over time well we see the results.

You are wrong however with this, the majority doesn’t see us as a joke. You have no majority. It’s why unfettered illegal immigration is so important. Your side has lost many blacks, Hispanics, and moderates. How are leftist filth seen? As America hating socialists and not very intelligent. It’s why they lose every debate.

Conservative commies are a joke. People laugh at them because they are weak and ineffective ankle biters.

 

[Hamish Howl]

Not yet lol. I won’t be prepping like that.

I have positioned myself more into precious metals and made some other hedge type moves. Have worked out some details with family and friends to insure that we as a group are positioned to have an easier go of any collapse. Necessary meds, food, and other supplies to cushion a collapse. Mutual security to deal with the expected spike in crime.

Things that happened in Venezuela we will prepare for.

And you joke about it all you like. We are in a deep recession right now. The idiot running the country will only make it worst just like he did inflation and gas prices. Better to be safe than sorry.

Oh, a goldbug. That's nearly as much fun.

 

[Hamish Howl]

Gang violent is the root cause!

Not all but MOST gangs are black and Hispanic. If that offends you sorry but I don’t care. We are having a debate here. There is no way to accurately explain the root cause of violent crime without describing the source.

You don't actually live in a city, right?

 

[Hamish Howl]

MAGA freaks are not true populists. they have stolen some populist rhetoric and have given populism a bad name.

Populism is ALWAYS stupid. No exceptions. The very premise of populism is pig-ignorant.

Populism, the populism I grew up with, is Bernie Sanders.

Also stupid. Senator Sanders isn't a bad guy, and he's not stupid, but a lot of his fans are.

 

[Lafayette]

BETTERMENT OF THE WHOLE OF MANKIND

I do have the courage and I did say it. And sure as sunrise the leftists begin the racist attacks. Lol.

It's always the same Rightist blah-blah-blah. You-plural have no foundation whatsoever in a premise. That premise on the left being "For the betterment of mankind."

All you can think about is yourselves-yourselves-yourselves. (And what's in it for me-me-me?) You confuse selfishness with self-care, simply to make the former of the two mental-orientations become the latter. Which is why you can only have sentiments not-for-the-whole but only "my-part" of the whole.

As a people, you are perfectly useless, except to calculate/count your fortunes every weekend to please yourselves-and-yours. Self-pride is your only sentiment.

The problem with the Rabid-Right is that it has not yet understood that the whole-of-mankind is of far greater importance than each of its individual parts ...

 

[Hamish Howl]

Make me king.

Your un-American monarchism has been noted.

 

[Lafayette]

I do have the courage and I did say it. And sure as sunrise the leftists begin the racist attacks. Lol.

More one-liner BS.

You-plural on the Rabid-Right can't think otherwise. Too fatiguing for your mental outlook ...

 

[Hamish Howl]

I do have the courage and I did say it. And sure as sunrise the leftists begin the racist attacks. Lol.

"I make racist statements, and if I'm called on them, that's because those people are racist."


UNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG

 

[NolanVoyd]

Oh? And where's yours ... ?

Post 552.

 

[Lafayette]

I shouldn’t have to cut and paste or link to a site to make you understand that the majority of violent crime is gang and drug related. That is well known and easily sources should you not believe it.

I also shouldn’t have to convince you that most gang violence is committed by black and brown gangs. It is simply unacceptable that you would be that ignorant of this issue.

No you don't.

What you must do (but are seemingly incapable of doing it) is asking the question "Why do they have the behavior that leads to this outcome".

Where's the social-problem in America? It is based in an altogether unfair system of personal income!

Here is the Distribution of Personal Income in the US:

Note that we assume that "distribution of average income" is that sector of 50-to70K. So, on the left-side is at total of 36.1% and on the right-side is a total of 47.7% of household incomes.

Upper-income individuals/families in the US are clearly the champions of Household Incomes. Does that seem fair and decent?

I don't think so and nobody on the Left of the political-spectrum will think so either!

Of course, the Right will think "Well, we earn higher salaries so we DESERVE to be richer!"

But, ask yourself - Is that the purpose of a Fair&Decent Economy or should it be otherwise ... ?

I think "otherwise". There can be a difference but it need not be so drastic as shown above. There should be higher incomes on the left of that chart above!

Which could be achieved by increasing taxation of the much higher incomes on the right. How would that work? There are multiple ways. But one is employing the higher tax-funding on the right of the above income-spread in order to build better housing accommodations for those on the left-side of the chart (for one example).

Housing could be built by state governments who would rent them at much lower prices* ...

*Which is being done, btw, in a number of European countries!

 

[Lafayette]

Post 552.

Blah-blah-blah.

Moving right along ....

 

[NolanVoyd]

Blah-blah-blah.

Moving right along ....

Is that how you respond to facts?

 

[Daddyo]

MAGA freaks are not true populists. they have stolen some populist rhetoric and have given populism a bad name.

Populism, the populism I grew up with, is Bernie Sanders.

Bernie Sanders is a socialist. He changed it to democratic socialist to soften the word. He honeymooned in Russia by his own admission. The man is a socialist.

You damned right we aren’t socialist garbage.

 

[Daddyo]

Why should you be bothered by people whom you deem are lying about you and calling you names, when you lie about them and call them names?

Answer that one, and if you say,

"Well, I'm not lying"......


You are lying.

I’m not bothered by you or any other leftist. We are debating. That requires an answer to questions or incorrect statements.

I don’t lie. You may not like my rebuttal but it isn’t a lie. If you think it a lie then rebut the claim like a man. Instead of making a charge without rebuttal like leftists do all the time.

 

[NolanVoyd]

I don’t lie.

You certainly say things that are blatantly factually false on a regular basis.

If you aren't lying then you must believe the false nonsense you post, even after being shown the facts.

What does that make you? Woefully misinformed? Stubornly gullible?

 

[Lafayette]

WE THE SHEEPLE

At least it injects a little fiscal discipline into the system. That's much better than Biden's system of pretending nobody abuses the system. That's just dishonest, unethical, immoral and illegal. They know full well how much it gets abused but look the other way because that's how the illegal vote buying scam works.

The illegal vote buying scam works ONLY in both houses of Congress. Long-time members of both houses know well where the money comes from and "who" is the donor! Which is why the kiss his/her ass!

These people (on both sides of the political spectrum) know well the money it takes to get elected and re-elected (ad nauseam). That story is as old as the history of the US.

And nothing will change until election to both state and federal congresses is altered significantly in order to obviate the patent use of Big-Money External Funding to get elected.

We-the-sheeple believe the bullshat publicity that gets people elected? Which means we-the-sheeple are the problem ... !

PS: Voting laws in the European Union are clear and applied. You screw around them and you go to jail. It's that simple. Unlike the US where the sole consideration in politics is "who gets elected and where does the money come from to do so"? Because that's all that matters!