Well, the government is back and signing up for Obamacare is as easy as… wait, it's not easy at all! It's like trying to send an email in 1994. It's like getting into Harvard without being a legacy! It's like trying to get across a border without being made to feel like a criminal!
O'Bomber, is there nothing you can't make a mess of?
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On to the feedback…
A NEW TDV CIVILSATION?
Dear TDV,
I like videos done by Jeff but the best idea is to call people to gather in one place and create a new civilization with best people, new laws, creators, workers and leave the lazy, zombies, animal humans who just rob, destroy each other and those few who keep the world running with their labour as creators which are now few compare with the destroyers. South America has a lot of poverty too and the world economy collapse there may collapse too and there people can turn violent robbers and destroyers and killers too. So where is safer?
Anton K.
Gary’s Response:
As someone who is fairly new to extensive travel and living abroad I can tell you honestly that I feel most in danger while in the US. By far. I like to explore any cities where I find myself, especially the working class and poor neighborhoods. I find that the poorer a neighborhood is, the more fun the bars are. Yes, there are dangerous ghettoes in any city and poor parts in any country. But I have felt the most in danger while in the black ghettoes of the US than anywhere else so far.
On that note, I would venture to say that the poor black ghettoes of any country are places you should avoid. Poverty breeds violent crime (and poverty is also sustained and deepened by anti-market, wealth-transfering and wealth-destroying governments) and every country has poverty, but in my experience (and I'm saying this as a black man) there is something particularly vicious about poor blacks. There is an edge to it born, I think, of the bitterness over chattel slavery. I say this without racial prejudice of any sort: the countries with the highest number of black ghettoes whose populations are overwhelmingly dependent on government transfer payments will be the most dangerous as the monetary system as we know it unwinds.
The poor in the US are a going to be a lot more vicious than the poor in South America. But the poor may not be afraid of. The police in the US are now fully militarized and eager to use unrestrained violence against the tax slaves they supposedly protect. You can avoid black ghettoes in the US. You can't avoid the police. They are everywhere. When I'm in the US, there is an unceasing current of dread running up and down my spine because of the police, especially when I'm in a car. And it's not because I'm black! It's because I know that the US has become a surveillance militarized police state where pretty much everything is a crime and everyone is a criminal whom the police can kidnap or kill on a whim.
There's no perfect place in the world. But the US is on its way to becoming the worst place in terms of personal safety both from the welfare class and the praetorian class. That's why TDV chose South America to found the its liberty community, Galt's Gulch Chile. No place will escape The End Of The Monetary System As We Know It (TEOTMSAWKI), but for our money, South America is going to be the best place to be to make sure the suffering is viewed from your TV and not from your living room window.
WHAT THEN, HUH?
What if people realize they don't need the so-called 'government' and its elected class of blood sucking leeches?
Lawrence W.
Jeff’s Response:
Then there will be world peace and an unbelievable advance in the standard of living for every human being on the planet…except for the blood-sucking parasite in the former government who will be forced to earn a real living as unskilled laborers, assuming anyone would hire such useless, dishonest, violent individuals.
We think that realization is already well on its way to becoming world wide as the internet connects people and helps dispel the brainwashing that keeps government running. Sadly, the full realization won't come in time to prevent the inevitable and chaotic unwinding of the statist world. So we keep on writing here at TDV to spread the word in our blog. We also provide actionable advice to best navigate the turbulence ahead with our subscription newsletter, among other services like TDV Passports and TDV Offshore.
STAYING CONNECTED WHILE TRAVELING
Hey Gary,
I know you’re a man on the move, so I have a travel question for you: I freelance, and so I can work from anywhere in the world as long as I can get online. I’m about to head to Central and South America for a few months. What’s your advice for making sure I’m always connected. I have a MacBook Pro and an iPhone 4.
Riley S.
Gary’s Response:
I am wet behind the ears on this topic, Riley. Jeff is much, much more qualified to answer this as he has been traveling all over the globe for half his life. I can give you a newbie's perspective, however. I can also tell you what to avoid doing based on recent painful experience.
First, you may want to get a local pay-as-you-go phone. This is what every expat I've met has told me. It will make your life so much easier. Your own phone will cost scandalous amounts of money ($4.50/min for my T-Mobile plan while in Chile and $0.50 per text). I somehow manage to never getting around to doing that and have spent months in Mexico and Chile being unreachable while I was walking or taking public transit. It sucks. Don't do what I did. Get a local phone or card as soon as you get off the plane.
Next, find out where the McDonald's are. In the US, there is WiFi everywhere and I got really spoiled. I could get on a commuter bus from Washington, DC, to New York and have WiFi the entire way. That's not the case in Chile, for example, on the commuter bus between Santiago and the coastal region of Valparaiso. When I've needed free WiFi, a McDonald's restaurant has always been a sure bet. Of course, if you have a local phone, you can use that network and create a hotspot which is how the Galts Gulch Chile crew rolls.
