America the Monster
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America has become a monster and you are its next meal…
There was an old (now) song by Steppenwolfe of this name, i.e., “America the Monster” and as I began to consider the nature of this country’s government …well, it seemed appropriate.
That said, America has become a monster. Like Goya’s mythical portrait it devours its own children, 1 in 100 are convicts, education becomes more and more expensive and thus exclusive, employment becomes scarcer and less well paid, ”social safety net programs” expand, without solving the problems, and it feels free to lay waste whatever sections of the world it desires to . Been in Iraq for almost a decade and show no signs of leaving Afghanistan. Not to mention the “bill” for all this.
Ah, the “bill”. Well, the Government doesn’t have to worry about that, does it? After all that part of the fun and games will be delivered to us, you and me…and our great grandchildren. And such a bill! No one
can even guess what it will come to – no one. But some of us will pay it. Of course, it won’t be called “the bill”. Oh no. It will be called Taxes. Increased taxes? Devalued currency? The joys of having an unaccountable monster in charge of our futures!
Some will say that it cannot happen – not here. To them I would say, just wait a bit. Remember that income taxes were supposed to be only temporary and never to exceed 2% of income. Yes, and your check is in the mail. But, I hear them say, the Law forbids such. I would say to them: The Law forbids nothing – if it is re-written (as it has been before) and if it is re-interpreted (as it has been before) to
permit…even mandate such (as has been done before). Ah, what of a Law that has become only a way for those who desire to re-distribute wealth to do so “legally”?
So, we come to a point of decision: Do we allow all that we have to be devoured by this monster? Or do we try to save some bit of it for our own use? You know, retirement and the need, even then, to eat and have a roof over our heads? Are we to be, as so many ‘round the world are, looking for a safe currency that will retain some of its value in years to come? And a safe haven for our bit of fortune, as well as ourselves? These would seem to our choices from all that the news from Congress and the world financial markets would have us believe.
Ah well, perhaps if we just “close our eyes and click our heels together three times, while repeating…” no, that’s to get back to Kansas, isn’t it? Well, we left Kansas a long time ago I’m afraid.
However, we can get to somewhere much better than Kansas – if we try. It does take planning and forethought but that is why there is Escape from America. As you are reading this world class E-zine it would seem you are concerned, rightly so, about this monster. But, will you do something or just keep clicking your heels and wondering where Toto is? Choice is yours – I have made mine, some time back.
It is up to us to decide that it is time to go. Time to go before we, like so many before us in other nations, have to go with what we are allowed to carry. The plight of the Jews of Germany and Eastern Europe, after WWI and in the 1930’s The Cubans after Castro. The Chinese and Mao? Hmmm, the list could go on. Will it include you, along with the Armenians? Shall we be reduced to “portable wealth”?
Read that as diamonds we can carry in our rectums or sew into our children’s clothing or dolls. Is that to be our future? Remember, no one wanted to accept those refugees of the 1930’s – what makes us think anyone will be more willing to accept us? Do you recall the warnings of the Euro-countries, during the talked of exodus of Americans, during Iraq-2? No one wanted to accept “us” then. Not even Canada. Do you believe they would be any more willing if times became such as to necessitate real expatriation?
Consider the differing circumstances of the “average” Czarist Aristocrat of 1920 and those of Crown Prince Yusapov. Yusapov had been exiled, by the Czar, and allowed to keep that part of his fortune he had previously moved to France and Switzerland. Keep in mind that delightful word previously. What about the others? Well, for the most part they drove taxis, waited tables and became … “Ladies of certain virtue”. Shanghi was replete with its “houses of former Aristos”, what a future to contemplate …as our own?
Now it doesn’t have to be quite like the above. Weren’t there lots of Cuban Attorney’s who came to USA and did quite well – as shoe salesmen? Hmmm? Yes, quite so.
Here comes that nasty but needful concept: Planning and (here it is) previously deposited funds. However, these funds must be such and in such form as to assure that the sticky fingers of government cannot reach out and confiscate them. As the Nazi’s , Russian Soviets and Chinese Communists did with accounts and holdings they could identify. Are there ways to secure our fortunes and thus our futures from government as well as others? Yes. Are they legal? Yes, as of now. But those ways are going to close and then…, ah then, then any who attempt such will have “committed a crime” (the crime of thinking the money belonged to you?) and they and their assets will be ceased.
For now there are still ways to secure our freedom and our financial futures. How long this will remain the case only our fearless, because unaccountable, leaders may say. But it shan’t be long.
In the pages of EFAM you can find companies who can and will help you to secure your personal and financial future. Other companies can show you the way to a better and more pleasant place to retire to. For now these and second passports remain available – for now. However, who may say when the monster will become hungrier? Perhaps glance your way and decide that your financial vehicle would make a toothsome dainty? All, of course, in the name of “saving”…something or other. But, devoured nonetheless, America the Monster? Yes. Now, will you stay around to be, eventually, put on the menu?
The choice is yours…for now;)
Those who are awake are the seers, those who sleepwalk are the slaves…Stay tuned for Part II of Swiss Uncle Timmie Rudizuli as he looks to the USA…next week!
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Dear Uncle Timmie,
I thoroughly enjoyed your article even though it does break my heart. I am a woman free to choose my destination as I have already fled my country of birth (Iran) and now reside on a tiny island. I grew up in Florida and have know the US as my primary home for many years and I have been planning to go back, but I keep coming to the same conclusion: the US is not a place I can start over and build a foundation. At least not now anyways. I think you were a but too harsh in your article but I am sorry to say that you are probably right. I have watched and studied the US economy for years and now more than ever I believe things are just getting worse…I hope I’m wrong. I long to feel the same comfort and safety I felt years ago…there is still a chance of that, no?
My Dear Afi, of course there is always a chance…for anything. Anything is possible – likely? Probable? No. Possible? Yes. However, with that said: USA will ,because of its size, take some time to completely decompose. Therefore, pick a way to survive on that which is/remains available…or leave, eh? Best of luck.
Uncle Timmie
Hmmm, echoes of Richard Baxter? I would say you must have read more than a milllion books.
Uncle Timmie: I would rather be in hell with you than in heaven with anyone else. Take me with.
My Love Reveals Objects
my love reveals objects
silken butterflies
concealed in his fingers
his words
splash me with stars
night shines like lightning
under the fingers of my love
my love invents worlds where
jeweled glittering serpents live
worlds where music is the world
worlds where houses with open eyes
contemplate the dawn
my love is a mad sunflower that forgets
fragments of sun in the silence
Isabel Fraire
Mi amor descubre objetos
mi amor descubre objetos
sedosas mariposas
se ocultan en sus dedos
sus palabras
me salpican de estrellas
bajo los dedos de mi amor la noche
brilla como relámpago
mi amor inventa mundos en que habitan
serpientes cuajadas de brillantes
mundos en que la música es el mundo
mundos en que las casas con los ojos abiertos
contemplan el amanecer
mi amor es un loco girasol que olvida
pedazos de sol en el silencio
Isabel Fraire
Dear Mina, What a kind offer! However, as you are not Virgil , I must refuse…reluctantly , but still. Hmmm, Mina, Mina,…a familiar name. Wasn’t your , former, husband a real estate agent, hmmmm?
Best, Uncle Timmie
I think ole uncle ridizuli has some points, but just like conspiracy theorists (which i am myself sometimes) he is just prone to this sort of doomsday thinking. Some people just always feel a need to tell the rest of us, “it’s almost over yall”. Sure things can and probably will change in america. We always say and we always know that life is ever changing, nothing stays the same. America is going thru a tough time. There will be a “correction” in terms of money, income, standards of living,etc. It willbe agood thing, not a bad thing, i believe. But realizing this and planning for it is the key. America will still be one of the best places to live in the world for the next century and beyond, i’m sure of it. We all just have to re-evaluate certain things and live within our means, and stop thinking that life in america is supposed to mean ever-increasing property values, bloated salaries and spending and wasting resources like spoiled children. Go ahead and look back over the decades at how many people, writers, said or made all sorts of predictions that never came to fruition. We have just as much right, and appropriately so, to doubt ridizulis point of view as he has the right to say them. And appropriately so. A lot of people like him just always exist in this state of thinking, like a self-fullfilling prophecy. People have short memories, just think of how many doomsdayers have said this over and over and over again. Change will come, but not like he’s saying. America is not “finished”, it will just change like it ALWAYS has, like it did since it”s founding, like it has every single decade. That’s nothing new. We have a better chance of some extraordinary weather phenomenons wreaking havoc on us then the united states going down the drain for good. If you wanna be an expatriot, and live someplace else (as i may do myself), then go ahead and do it. There are lot and lots of good reason to do it when you retire with your fixed income, or before that when there absolutely are nice places to live in the world that can be much better for you and your family, and more fun and beautiful then how you are living here. That just comes from traveling and seeing how nice it is in other places. But stop making a bunch of short-sighted predictions that you have absolutely no idea will come tru. America will be fine, far longer than any of us alive now will ever be around to see.
Dear Merdock,
My goodness. How easy it seems to substitute what one can defend against for what is actually said. People never cease to amaze your poor old Uncle Timmie.
I did not say that USA was “finished” – like yourself, I believe USA will, and has, change(d). However, I do not care for its current direction. Do you? Perhaps some in Germany appreciated Uncle Adolf? I would not have. But, change is inevitable and all one may do is to guard against those effects one does not wish to undergo and , if needful, remove one’s self from the “meat-grinder” of “those who know best for you”. A course of action I do , heartily, recommend.
However:
“Don’t y’all worry too much – shoot, change is inevitable! We need a good shower after all that train riding,eh Izak ?”
Uncle Timmie
Hey Uncle Timmie,
You so eloquently articulated what I have been feeling for quite a while now… I believe you’re right on the money. The term “conspiracy theorist” feels to me today, outdated. Conspiracy implies concealment. The big banks and corporations aren’t even trying to conceal their greedy motives and actions. They have become so brazen, and are the key players in elections. Publicly traded companies’ primary focus is making $ for their sharholders, regardless of workers’ safety, ethics, etc. My partner is a patented inventor. Unless you are friends with someone in that line of work, most people have no clue that the US patent office is under seige by multinational corporations who have banded together to try to dismantle the laws that protect individual inventors, essentially destroying any competition in thier field. And the sad casualty is the very ingenutiy, entrepreneurialism and individual drive that created America in the first place. One can only bleed the cow so much, until she becomes so week and ill she collapses. Rome collapsed, not overnight. But it happened.
Fortunately, the world is large and still has some happy, healthy places in it. Thanks for doing your part to share them with your readers, and to remind people that they have choices in where they live and what kind of society they support.
Kudos!!
Dear Bella, Thank you for your most kind comment. Always enjoy, so much, hearing from those , like yourself, who do not bemoan the conditions they find but set out to master them.
As to conspiracies…? Well, your Uncle Timmie has a saying in which he places much credence:
“Only the powerless conspire – the powerful simply make plans.”
Too often have I seen it prove itself out – perhaps for you , too? What a world and yet, where else, eh? I do love it so! Do you not also?
Make of it and your life in it what you would have it be – I will.
All the best,
Uncle Timmie
“Perhaps some in Germany appreciated Uncle Adolf?”
Historically a lot of Germans were very supportive to his ideas. Uncle, u’re twisting economical and political reasons. Again, document-ally, the Jews were set to immigrate from Germany and Germany controlled areas to other regions, like Madagascar, Palestine and anywhere their Zion leaders will provide money for those who “qualified”. Read the Wannsee Protocol” and dig up why E.Rommel’s African Expeditionary Corps (Deutsches Afrikakorps) was sent to Northern Africa.
There were pretty clear reason for NSDAP to begin such preparation.
And just to cut straight down to escapement to a “greener pasture” I’d suggest that its all taken. All under control by those who boils “bail-outs” in the US and implementing another crafty ponzi scheme that some Shnobel Prize winner just about to announce. O-oh, forgot to say – its not conspiracy any longer. They’ve call it “economy”.
But what if I made you an offer you could not refuse? I did not mean as your guide, Dante, born under the sign of Gemini, but rather as your Francesca. You do remember what Mark Twain said: “Go to heaven for climate, Hell for the company”. Do come to Transylvania or Bukovina sometime, Mr. expat Uncle…
Dear Mina, Ah, am I to ask you to enter of your own free will (?)…I have been to the Borgo – too windy for me. Have you ever been to the real Alamut? Lovely ! My guide is Hoopoe and I fly The Valley’s, from peak to trough and on. Pleasing diversion, hmmm? Gemini ….looks a bit like Janus, as well, hmmm?
All the best,
Uncle Timmie
Insightful article, Uncle Timmie. It’s true. America has become a prison, a police state. I am an American but have lived in Europe. I watched helplessly as the government in America stole my fortune. Now my wife and I are practically destitute and in our mid-fifties. We would love to move to another country but I don’t think we can afford to now. I must write a book and tell the story of what has happened to my wife and I over the past twenty years at the hand of the government in the US. I just don’t know if I can. It hurts and makes me irate just to think about it. Writing a book about it all will be a painful exercise.