US Politics Thread

[Aphex]

Maybe if I sent you some alphabet blocks? A Sesame Street DVD?

Lol

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

It’s not just your sunsets.
The fact you haven’t a neighbour within 50 miles of you looks heavenly.

Though that could be due to the neighbours :)

 

[idahoblues]

CB, Foggy, Dax!
None of you are selling the place to me.

Idaho looks visitable though. Don’t know what put that in my head.

Though that could be due to the neighbours :)

As the old saying around here goes about dating
The odds are good but the goods are odd

 

[VOOMER]

God bless America

 

[idahoblues]

God bless America

Indeed!

 

[Username Required]

I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, America is a conglomeration of different “countries,”’all of which are very different, have different geography, different cultures, and different politics…both historically and currently.

However, the one constant is that the more money you have, the more you can either insulate from or ingratiate yourself into the vagaries of those politics.

I have spent my entire working life here trying to figure out the “how much” and “where” that will help me live the kind of retired life I can enjoy…all while I have been living close to work, by my wife’s family, in a nice village, but paying an arm & a leg to do it for the last 30 years, so my kids had a good life and their American family close by!

Houses are $600,000+, property taxes are $15,000 a year, sales taxes are 10% (12% on non-grocery food), state income taxes are 5%, village sticker for each car is another $100 apiece, and that’s all on top of the federal Income taxes. Yeah, “it keeps out the riff-raff,” as they say, but it bleeds and bleeds and bleeds you dry while you’re trying to get ahead.

And I know I’m one of the very lucky ones.

Yeah. Similar experience. I used to live in eastern North Carolina. 3500 sq.ft house on 3 acres. Had a creek running through it, Pecan trees everywhere. If you like Pecan Pie and Sweet Potato Casserole, you're sorted. The beaches? A dream. However, crime not so good, healthcare bang average, education mediocre. When you have children, you want great schools and colleges and a safe environment.

Moved to a town in Massachusetts a few years ago. 1500 sq.ft house on 1/3 of an acre surrounded by shitty White Oaks. High high taxes. Expensive homes. In fact, everything is expensive. However, crime is non-existent in my town. Large police force on top of that. No riff-raff to be seen. Excellent schools. Best colleges and universities in the country. Healthcare number one or two I think it is in the U.S. I had one of those life-changing medical emergencies a couple of years ago. If it had happened in NC, I'd be dead. Local hospital here just happens to have world class surgeons, the kind that go around the country teaching other surgeons how to be better surgeons.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Going to be interesting what the orange gibbon does with the cartels, he’s basically saying he’s going into other foreign countries to do what ever he wants, I’ve no doubt the American military could wipeout the head of the cartels within weeks however will those countries allow it?