Free to Leave

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-25-2008
Free to Leave
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Thu, 11-06-2008 - 10:39am

Just a reminder that those who are so unhappy about Obama being elected President are free to leave the United States and go live someplace else.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-23-2002
In reply to: portabella2
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 2:01am

Awesome post, and thank you for posting it!

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2008
In reply to: portabella2
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 2:21am
Thanks. I just think that there will always be people who can't be happy, like a Limbaugh or a Hannity, that make their money from harping on the misery instead of offering solutions, yet people fall for it - hook, line, and sinker...as my senior friends say, "that would be too much like right", for the angry to divert that energy into productive actions. Talk about angry...WE

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-28-2008
In reply to: portabella2
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 10:11am
Sounds great...but why are we being asked to leave the country? ; )



I'm not "down" with that whole line of thinking!

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-07-2007
In reply to: portabella2
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 11:10am

I didn't say you said anything about Australia. I was just using that as an example of where someone might go. And I know you didn't say anything about elderly parents. That was my point. You're suggesting people just leave mom and dad behind in the nursing home if they don't like who our new president is? That they leave the home and life they've built for themselves because they didn't like the outcome of the election? That they risk jumping out of the frying pan into the fire? Throw out the baby with the bathwater?

Sheesh.

Is there no other solution but to leave??? What about supporting the president in an effort to make this country a better and stronger place to live? What about working to elect someone else in 4 years? What about getting involved at the local level and making a difference in one's community? I'm sorry, but what you suggest sounds a lot like shut up and go away if you don't like it.

I think one can live a wonderful life in a country where one disapproves of its leader. Frankly ... I'm living proof.

~Ghostwriter, M.A.







“If, by a ‘liberal,’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people – their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties – someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a ‘liberal,’ then I’m proud to say I’m a ‘liberal.’”


~Ghostwriter, M.A.


iVillage Member
Registered: 02-07-2007
In reply to: portabella2
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 11:14am
Goodbye jobs, perhaps, but at least the companies that do so won't be rewarded for it, as they've been under Bush. The jobless rate is at the highest it's been in 14 years. But that's probably Obama's fault, isn't it? I've been looking for a job for nearly a year now, to no avail. Obama's fault, right?

~Ghostwriter, M.A.







“If, by a ‘liberal,’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people – their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties – someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a ‘liberal,’ then I’m proud to say I’m a ‘liberal.’”


~Ghostwriter, M.A.


iVillage Member
Registered: 10-13-2008
In reply to: portabella2
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 11:23am

I retired as an investment accountant just last year.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-27-2001
In reply to: portabella2
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 11:32am

Can you interpret this chart, then?

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-07-2007
In reply to: portabella2
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 11:41am

>>>Actually, this is a thread which didn’t really require any replies. Let’s not turn this into something that it isn’t.

With all due respect, I sense a tendency to want to shut people up. First you "remind" people unhappy with the election results that they can leave the country; now you suggest that you should have been able to just say what you wanted to say without having to put up with any responses or alternate viewpoints. You mentioned freedom of speech in one of your posts. May I gently "remind" you that it applies to all of us.

~Ghostwriter, M.A.







“If, by a ‘liberal,’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people – their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties – someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a ‘liberal,’ then I’m proud to say I’m a ‘liberal.’”


~Ghostwriter, M.A.


iVillage Member
Registered: 11-07-2008
In reply to: portabella2
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 11:48am

This country you claim to be yours was founded on the principles of all of those you call bible thumping rednecks. They are just hardworking people, love god and their country. If anyone should leave it's the people who want to make this country into another france or another europe. That's why we left in the first place and that's why we created the new America. I will not see it be destroyed to nothing.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: portabella2
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 11:51am

If feed-back and responses aren't wanted, then threads should NOT be started.

The nature of this board is to comment as one sees fit, within the limits of TOS--and you can't suddenly try to control debate to suit your own preferences.

Gettingahandle


Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.


Facts stifle the will, hobble conviction.

Gettingahandle

Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.

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