Political Ramblings

[rufus]

And now I have to go an gnaw on a carrot.

 

[kuntrygirl]

And now I have to go an gnaw on a carrot.

Every try carrot juice? I'm doing my juicing cleanse. :/

 

[bakerjw]

When I was in Ecuador, it was fresh fruits, rice and fish all the time. Eventually my dinnertime phrase became "Menos arroz por favor".

 

[kuntrygirl]

When I was in Ecuador, it was fresh fruits, rice and fish all the time. Eventually my dinnertime phrase became "Menos arroz por favor".

 

[rufus]

When I was in Ecuador, it was fresh fruits, rice and fish all the time. Eventually my dinnertime phrase became "Menos arroz por favor".

Did you like Ecuador? I see a lot of people are retiring there now. Mexico has upped its income requirements for immigrants. A lot of people from Canada and the US retired in Mexico, and now they cannot renew their papers because they just don't have that much income or money in the bank. I don't know how that will play out. No country wants poor people.

When my older brother retired after thirty years with the US Navy, he settled in Costa Rica. He loved it; his wife hated it. She never learned to speak Spanish, worse she never even tried.

He had a lot of immigration problems, but after he put a half million dollars into a Costa Rican bank "No hay nada de problema."

We had always sort of planned on retiring in Mexico, but as we got older, we realized that we couldn't stand being away from our kids and grand daughter. Family is everything.

In 2004, we went back to Mexico because nobody was writing us any more. Turns out they were all dead with the exception one of my wife's cousins. We had a real nice visit with her, and then she died a couple of weeks later. So, I guess there is nothing in Mexico for us now.

 

[hemet dennis]

How so true.



And this is what happens.


http://www.ijreview.com/2012/11/224...itlement-argument-send-this-tape-to-congress/

 

[punk-a-doodle]

Strangely, I have yet to be mauled by an overweight guy with a mohawk who has become habituated to humans and wants my peanut butter crackers.

 

[hemet dennis]

Strangely, I have yet to be mauled by an overweight guy with a mohawk who has become habituated to humans and wants my peanut butter crackers.

I'm glad you said "yet".

 

[rufus]

Dennis, that Judge Judy clip says it all. Sometimes I think that the problem is not that we didn't care for the poor, but we cared too much.

That cartoon on the side bar also says a lot. People fleeing the US still have to pay their income taxes and inheritance tax. If you are a US citizen, you have to pay your taxes til the day you die, then your personal estate gets ripped by the death tax which will be going up at the end of the year. In most countries, you only have to pay tax on income earned while a resident.

If you shed your citizenship, everything you own is taxed as income earned in that particular year. Only the poor can escape the US, and no other nation wants poor people.

When FATCA is fully implemented, thirty per cent of all money transferred out of the country will be withheld and paid to the IRS. You can file and get it back, maybe. You have to show the origin of the funds and prove that you are not a dope dealer or a crooked politician. If you transfer money to another country to buy say a house or a car, thirty per cent will be withheld. If you have to transfer the remaining funds from one foreign bank to another, they take another thirty per cent for the IRS. Ever transfer takes another cut of your funds. Pretty soon, you are out of money.

The US government is twisting the arms of other nations trying to get their banks to violate their nation's banking laws.

And still, car loads of dope cash are being driven across the border every day. For every shipment they intercept, probably a hundred get by.

http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/guys-in-truck-disown-huge-cash-stash

http://www.bordom.net/view/17480/Pictures_from_raid_of_drug_dealer_s_house_in_Mexico#.UKfZG2eSyLE

The honest people get ripped; the crooks walk free. And now, I am going out to the back yard and dig a hole and bury something.

 

[hemet dennis]

Dennis, that Judge Judy clip says it all. Sometimes I think that the problem is not that we didn't care for the poor, but we cared too much.

That cartoon on the side bar also says a lot. People fleeing the US still have to pay their income taxes and inheritance tax. If you are a US citizen, you have to pay your taxes til the day you die, then your personal estate gets ripped by the death tax which will be going up at the end of the year. In most countries, you only have to pay tax on income earned while a resident.

If you shed your citizenship, everything you own is taxed as income earned in that particular year. Only the poor can escape the US, and no other nation wants poor people.

When FATCA is fully implemented, thirty per cent of all money transferred out of the country will be withheld and paid to the IRS. You can file and get it back, maybe. You have to show the origin of the funds and prove that you are not a dope dealer or a crooked politician. If you transfer money to another country to buy say a house or a car, thirty per cent will be withheld. If you have to transfer the remaining funds from one foreign bank to another, they take another thirty per cent for the IRS. Ever transfer takes another cut of your funds. Pretty soon, you are out of money.

The US government is twisting the arms of other nations trying to get their banks to violate their nation's banking laws.

And still, car loads of dope cash are being driven across the border every day. For every shipment they intercept, probably a hundred get by.

http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/guys-in-truck-disown-huge-cash-stash

http://www.bordom.net/view/17480/Pictures_from_raid_of_drug_dealer_s_house_in_Mexico#.UKfZG2eSyLE

The honest people get ripped; the crooks walk free. And now, I am going out to the back yard and dig a hole and bury something.

For sometime it's been to comfortable to be poor in this country.