Barbara Ehrenreich (The Progressive): FleeAmerica.com

From The Progressive
January 2005 Issue
Posted Online Sunday November 28

FleeAmerica.com
By Barbara Ehrenreich

Welcome to the website that matches you with a NEW country appropriate to your personal tastes and values! You wouldn't want to keep a spouse or a job that you've grown estranged from, and there's no reason to be stuck with a nationality that doesn't reflect the REAL you. After all, your nationality is one of the few things you can change WITHOUT SURGERY, simply by filling out the forms below, including your up-to-date passport and credit card numbers.

Many people write to ask: Am I betraying my country by leaving? The answer is NO, your country has already betrayed you. Maybe you grew up believing America meant bacon cheeseburgers, Martin Luther King, rock 'n' roll, and Saturday afternoon softball. But-as you've probably noticed-the operative images in the world today are Abu Ghraib, Condi Rice, and the flattening of Fallujah.

And when you first pledged your allegiance to "one nation under God," you probably didn't realize that God would be delegating much of the day-to-day managerial responsibility to James Dobson and Tom DeLay. It's America that's changed-not you!

The good news is that there are a lot more countries out there than the US media are generally aware of. France, for example, with its ample coastline and curiously creamy cuisine. China, with its fascinating blend of runaway capitalism and communist repression. Or if you're looking for something REALLY different: Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Venezuela now all have democratically elected leftwing leaders. How exotic is that?

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isn't the real problem. You can become a permanent resident after 5 years if you have the bucks....however, you have to have health insurance! And, yes, there are international health insurers, and the yearly premiums are really OK....I was looking at one that, with a $2500 deductible is actually no more expensive than Medicare Supplemental plans.

HOWEVER, if you look at the questionnaires....if you are disabled, you are automatically rejected. And one can only wonder if they will accept you if you have a psychiatric problem...And I think most of the policies won't accept anyone over age 62.

So.....if you are healthy and rich...fine. If you have some income/money and sick in a certain way.....forget it....

I guess I'll have to settle for 3-6 months out of the year if I ever put this plan in place....sort of like going to Florida for the winter, I guess......


But...this article is hysterical!! Thanks for posting it!

Blacks did not migrate to Africa in the 60s but fought to have their rights. Women did not cower in the 70s to depend on their fathers, brothers, husbands and then sons for economic independence, but fought for their equal rights.

And we, democrats, liberal, the real compassionate people will stay here and fight for our country, to save it from the dark clutches of reactionary forces.