I’m staying away from Facebook because of that. Pray for our country: yeah, I prayed that the bill would pass, and that Fear would not keep its stronghold on this country. But that’s the subject for another thread, maybe even on another board.
Still, I have to agree with the majority: really, there’s not a place that fits the criteria as offered. Even the freest places seem to have some form of government involvement in health care.
Conservatives don’t move elsewhere like the liberals of a few years ago who emptily threatened to move to Canada or some other socialist paradise. They will remain and wait for “the worm to turn,” as it inevitably must.
Texas doesn’t have any “constitutional right to secede from the union,” nor do any of the States. I seem to recall that a Civil War was fought over this point.
I’m sure Squink was mocking the commonly held (in the far right) opinion that Texas has this special right.
We have a public health system already. I’m not sure what would make it UHC - anyone can check into a hospital and get treatment for free, although you better get used to queues.
Errm, *they *really, really, really don’t like people who speak English. And they’re not really the evangelical sort, either.
Plus, we have legal gay marriage. And a (vast) majority black population, and 11 official languages. I don’t see any of the teabaggers I’ve seen at the recent protests lasting 24 hours (outside Orania. Where none of them would speak the taal.)
I did not know that. Thanks!
That’s the War of Northern Agression pal.
You have clearly never visited Edmonton. Or Texas.
Seriously, although Alberta does swing “right” in Canadian terms, I think your comparison to Texas is a bit of hyperbole.
On the whole, Alberta is certainly a great place to live.
Forget about Australia, the US Democrats (let alone Republicans) would consider our right wing party to be socialists/marxists. Even more so for New Zealand, hell forget pretty much most, if not all, Western Countries.
Tea Baggers are screaming and having nervous breakdowns over the policies that are right wing to begin with. I don’t think the average US citizen realises how far right wing the US is compared to the rest of us. Seriously, they’d have aneurysms if they ever found out about the laws in other countries or saw the political debates that happen.
I’m pretty sure he has. 
Edmonton is certainly the most left-wing city in Alberta, but Alberta as a whole is pretty far right.
Our conservative government spent too much money this year, and is now under attack from the right - the Wild Rose Alliance party is probably the most right-wing political party in North America right now (they’re basically Tea Partiers with organization). Interestingly, when they had their leadership convention the two major candidates were a traditional social conservative and a more libertarian, socially moderate candidate, Danielle Smith. She beat him in a walk for the leadership. She’s kind of a babe, too. And, she has a degree in economics. And, the Alliance is now more popular than our current government. In fact, it has a double-digit lead, despite being pretty much unknown a year or two ago, and would be elected as the new government if an election were held today.
There you go tryin to mess things up with your ‘facts’.
I’ll have you know, robby, that Americans don’t cotton to your ‘facts’.
We are a faith based country, and we hold to our beliefs, not your so-called facts.
Facts be DAMNED!
Reality has a well-known liberal bias!
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Abu Dhabi would be good if it wasn’t Muslim. It’s rich, safe, has relatively good infrastructure and public services, caters well to business, is strict on abortions and homosexuality, doesn’t care much for climate change, while basically having no income tax. Sadly I think it also has a government-run health care system.
Man, there really aren’t many countries left. Pretty soon the countries using UHC will match up with countries using the metric system (if you’re not sure what I mean check out the list of countries not using the metric system).
One possibility might be Goa, India. It was a Portuguese colony, so there is a very dominant Roman Catholic feel. Taxes are pretty low because there aren’t a lot of government services. They have a lot of laws on the books but lack enforcement. We were driving to the beach and my in-law pointed out the window to a nearly completed hotel, probably about 10 stories. The developer saw that there was a huge plot of land not being use, so he put up a hotel.
Imagine that, he saw some land and decided he’d put up a hotel. No ownership, no permits, no inspections. All of the labour and materials are acquired on the sly so there are no tax records.
Got about 95% before he was eventually stopped. But the building is still there, since there isn’t much recourse to have him take it down. And over a decade ago an oil tanker ran aground off one of the more famous beaches. The owners of the oil were quick to get in and get their oil off, but no one could figure out who owned the ship. So it’s still there!
I think Haiti is what you’re looking for. Or really any moderately stable Third World country.
But Goa is packed with dirty hippies and ravers. Not exactly Tea-Bagger heaven, I think.
That’s true, but they are all concentrated in one small area.
Just to break up the liberal chanting and self congratulations for a moment of seriousness, but this OP begs a rather fundamental question…why exactly should people inclined towards the Tea Party leave America and go anywhere? Consider…in their despair over how right wing the country was going, liberal types were ready to flee to Canada (or where ever) a mere 6 years ago when GW was re-elected (on the road to declaring the US a christian state and himself King George the W, Gods anointed and all that). In that small period of time there has been a fairly significant shift in politics (as well as, to my mind more importantly, an economic shift). 10 years ago Republican conservatives (of whatever stripe) were crowing loudly to themselves that liberalism and the liberal way were dead in the US, and that the country had firmly shifted to ‘the right’ (as Republican conservatives see it). You see, the people had rejected liberalism and had embraced conservatism (as defined by the Republicans), all was right with the world and the Republicans were breaking arms patting themselves on the back and getting ready to raid the cookie jar as they rammed through their agenda.
And here we are today. Liberals are breaking arms patting themselves on the back and congratulating themselves on how conservative thought in the US is dead (the people are with them, no?), crowing over the possibility of ‘teabaggers’ being complete idiots and fleeing the country (and never mind about that whole Canada thingy a few years before), and rubbing their hands in glee over how much of their agenda they can now ram through, seeing as how they have finally ‘won’.
It will be fun to watch the whole pride before the fall thingy once again play out on the US political arena and, at some point, the worm will turn again. Because the Democrats have once again failed to learn the key lessons of US political history that so eluded the idiot Republicans…that being that the US political eco-system is a lot like the weather in one of the more volatile regions of the country. As the folks there say, don’t like the current weather? No worries…just wait around a bit. It will change…
Ok…reality break is over. Feel free to going back to the self congratulatory back patting and witty remarks about more and more ridiculous places the Tea Party folks won’t be able to go to…
We’ll see who laughs last (it will be me of course, laughing at the liberals as the same stunned cow look comes over their faces that we are seeing on the idiot conservatives today, as they realize that ‘the people’ really AREN’T with them, but are merely so disgusted with the other side that they are willing, for a time, to try something new).
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I was told by tea partiers on this board that liberal policies can’t be undone. They are self perpetuating, once in place everyone becomes dependent on the government and the only solution becomes to add more government. Everything was great until liberals added social security and medicare, then let women vote. Now those two programs are a bazilion times bigger and women keep voting for the wrong party.
So I think you might be wrong, using the teabaggers very own cough logic. The 8 years of the Bush Dynasty really just meant that nothing happened. No one got gay married, no one got health care. Government can’t get smaller, so it just stays the same.
Now the country has taken a huge step left. Even if Obama gets impeached next week, it’s a step that can’t be undone. So after a few happy years of Republican Rule, liberals will come in and move it left some more.
Their only option is to leave.