Very Interesting Article Passed To Me! I wonder If All Agree?
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/world/article154209369.html#fmp
Very Interesting Article Passed To Me! I wonder If All Agree?
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/world/article154209369.html#fmp
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You may want to believe your "documentary" published by special interest groups and lobbyists or dig a little bit deeper:
http://history-switzerland.geschichte-schweiz.ch/switzerland-second...
http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2016/2/14/was-switzerland-...
Simple - if the issue isn't important for you, you stay home and accept the result. If the issue is important to you, you go and vote and then accept the will of the (voting) majority. It works very well. Why mandatory voting in light of that? And in this day and age, voting can be done electronically, so "cumbersome" is a thing of the past in that regard.
We had a (for a short while) another reality TV "star" (Kevin O'Leary of "Shark Tank") who thought he could emulate Trump's foray into politics.
He even promised to introduce direct Democracy to Canada! Believe it or not, I would have voted for him (Canadian political parties are not as fundamentally different from each other, so crossing party lines is not a change of lifestyle like in the U.S.). But he disappeared from the political scene as quickly as he appeared.
Your insinuation that Switzerland "partnered" with the Nazis is ridiculous and totally lacking any basis. I always have to laugh when I hear misconceptions like that...
Switzerland is a neutral country since a long time (the Helvetian Federation was founded in 1291) and everybody used (and still uses) Swiss banks to safeguard their money.
Lol - humorous indeed...:-)
But the writer forgot the most important positive point for living in Switzerland: Direct Democracy, not Democracy by representation like in Canada, the U.S. and pretty much everywhere else where there is a so-called "Democracy".
The Swiss Federal council (seven guys or gals of which one is elected among them to be the honorary President for a year) cannot make decisions like the President or Prime Minister in other countries. They will propose something and then the issue is voted on by the citizens. This means a lot of trips to the voting booth every year (usually combined with a visit to the pub to discuss "politics"...), but at least you don't get screwed over by some character promising you "greatness" while running the country more into the ground every day.
Voter participation is usually quite low, but if the people decide on something, you will accept it (even if you don't like it) because the majority of your fellow citizens voted for it...
Trump won because of the "independents". Among them, there are many voters who went for Trump either because he was a TV "star" (like others before him - being "famous" helps) or they thought that he is a good businessman and therefore can run a country.
Many of these voters have in the meantime discovered that they were duped in more ways than one - just look at his "approval" rating - it's heading for a world record low...maybe even single digits not too long from now...:-)
Thank LBJ.
I wouldn't say they are exactly flocking.
Over the past ten years more then 30mm have reached retirement age, and total number of gringos living offshore is merely 380k?
Personally, I have been offshore since the 80s...and certainly no regrets.
A common trait of expats is making life decisions based upon hypothetical what-ifs rather than current realities. I'm not anxiously awaiting the zombie apocalypse or dollar collapse or one of those NK or Iran nukes taking out a key U.S. city or for the U.S. infrastructure to crumble, etc. etc. Instead I assess the current situation and make the best of it. Life in the U.S. is great and cheap if you are wise with your spending and make smart decisions.
It is astonishing how many people govern their lives by hype and fear, both of it mostly unfounded.
More folks drink, smoke or drive themselves to death than all of the other "unnatural deaths" combined. Yet almost nobody even remotely thinks about stopping their "killer" habit.
Doesn't make sense to me...
While half the world's population's number one priority is finding food for the day, a great number of the affluent folks are living with man-made worries and fears which border on paranoia.
Everybody will die some day - so why waste your "living days" worrying about it?
Anyone with a bit of foresight, planning and hard work does not have to retire on $1500/month in Canada or in the U.S.
If anyone considers the $1500/month Government pension (which is kind of a welfare payment anyway) sufficient to retire "comfortably" in Canada or the U.S. they should have their head examined.
I got divorced at age 40, my ex walked away with the much bigger "half" of all assets (except the kids which stayed with me but no alimony from my ex, ever!), yet I managed to build a very nice nest egg and was able to retire very comfortably at age 63. How? Planning and hard work, that's how!
In our (N/American and European) society, comfortable retirement is very possible if you plan ahead - even if there are some roadblocks or setback on the way there.
Sorry for this rant, but if people from the wealthiest countries on earth have to migrate to a developing country in order to live "comfortably" in their golden years, it doesn't bode very well for their sense of fiscal responsibility.
Rant over...:-)