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Why Expats Should Consider A Move To Chile: Part I |
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I will tell you how my husband and I
decided on first, what type of country to go to and then finally,
what the actual country would be. I will try to be as specific as
possible, covering some of our background, lifestyle, income, and
ultimate goals.
My husband and I were living quite
comfortably in Brooklyn NY. I was working as a UNIX Systems Analyst
for a major ratings firm and earning a very large salary. My husband
is a personal fitness trainer and was also making very nice money.
Our first complaint was the amount of
taxes we were paying. Between Federal, State, and local, I was only
receiving about 43% of my earnings. Now, this big, fat salary was
reduced to an OK income. It would not have been so bad except I saw
my tax dollars being wasted in more ways than I could count. I saw
that there were people eating out of trashcans; that the working poor
did not have health care. Oh, what am I saying?! Millions of people
did not have health care. It seemed that only the very rich were
prospering while the rest of us were in an ever steady state of
declination. How was this possible?
It was possible because we allowed it
to happen. Slowly, but surely, we cast our ballots for liars and
cheats, more concerned with their personal proclivities than in their
ability to manage a government office. We allowed ourselves to vote
based on, not who could do the job, but the lesser of two evils. The
lesser of two evils is still evil. When we are more concerned with
who someone sleeps with, rather than where they stand on what should
be important: economy, health care, education, and infrastructure, we
create the mess that America has become. I was one of those. I was
wrong.
The events on September 11th
opened more doors for the politicians to use to further invade our
privacy and strip us of more and more of our rights. If the
government wanted to enact a law that would further hinder our
personal freedoms, they would use fear and "the interests of
national security" as the means to accomplish their goals. This was
not the America of our parents and grandparents. It is not America at
all.
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Arica 
