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lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
4. I've considered expatriation as well
Mon Dec 16, 2019, 01:27 PM
Dec 2019

But I'll likely take my chances here. Oh, it worries me, partially because the hospitals near where I have in mind looks after the prisoners they have contracts to care for with far more resources than they have to discharge any medicare patient sicker than a mangy, homeless dog.
Should some political and social situations in some Sudamerican countries improve dramatically, admittedly I could afford an apartment, a housekeeper and eat out every other day on my Social Security income there. We may finally get coverage under a socialist umbrella here before that happens.
I get really f*cking upset when I hear Republirats start hawking about "privatizing" Social Security. We all know how that ends up: with the recipient totally f*cked after some greedy bank gets done charging it's fees.
In the first presidential election where my first, coming of age vote for the benevolent Jimmy Carter lost to greedy, out of touch "It's been said I favor the rich, I don't deny it" Ronnie Ray Gun, I threw things at the teevee as he blathered how the Cadillac driving welfare queens were "stealing" from his ilk. I've watched ever since with bewildered wonder at how the neediest of individuals, mesmerized by Fox Noise continue to vote against their own interests.
Meantime, I work on trying to get it through to the thick skulls of many of my generation and younger with more than two teeth and two neurons left to rub together why it is important to get out and
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