Alright class, what does this picture represent?
1. Places where American citizens live by the end of the decade?
2. The worldwide distribution of Democrats Abroad?
3. The last tax haven on Earth?
4. Obama’s foreign policy?
5. All the countries which the average American can identify on a map?
6. American Exceptionalism?
7. The coalition of the willing?
8. A selfie of America with all its BFF’s?
9. All the countries which will enjoy reciprocity under FATCA?
10. Countries trading primarily in US Dollars by the time a 6th grader finishes high school?
Pupils are invited to add to the list.
Don’t worry, all answers will be marked as correct – we support No Child Left Behind™.
The U.S disappearing down the drain?
The Axis of Evil towards hard working US Persons abroad!
Ooooh OOOh OOOOOOH… I know the answer… I know the answer… I know the answer…
All of the above?
Spot on. Homelanders, the one, the only, the exceptional.
Last week I sat down for typical Swiss coffee break with the team, and we were joined by a young (~35) American husband of a Swiss wife with 2 children. I asked him where he was from, and he said he was originally from Texas and then he entered into a little diatribe about how he hates Texas and the Tea party. I then asked him about Fbars, and he said he had back filed several years of 1040’s (from what I could tell a QD) and that he never had more than $10k in his Swiss account because his pay went into his Swiss wife’s account, so there were no Fbars.
He then said that the IRS had rejected the last 3 years of his 1040’s and disallowed his child tax credit because the kid’s had no SS number. He then said that he had dragged his Swiss wife, against her protests, and the children (around 10 yrs old), down to the embassy in Bern (there’s no waiting list for acquiring US citizenship, quell surprise) and got them passports and SS numbers.
At first I was dumbstruck. I told him that the renouncement fee had just been increased to $2350 and with a little luck he maybe the kids will be able to relinquish without penalty if they serve in the Swiss army. This interested the Swiss, but not the American.
Democrats, stuck on stupid. He probably believes Osama planned, implemented, and executed 9/11 too.
Two continents that start with A. Plus anarchic Archipelago.
Excellent post Deckard1138.
A big blueberry with blight.
The rest of the world has grown up around the US and Homelanders are still stuck in 1950 with the ‘we’re the most powerful nation on Earth’ non-sense.
Other the military (and it’s open to question how long the US can afford that in the long run, remember China is increasingly upping it’s military spending to secure regional superpower status), what else does the US really excel in anymore vis-à-vis other developed countries?
You walk the streets of Korea, Europe, and main cities in China what’s the real difference anymore?
@Secessionist
I hope you don’t mean that he actually got his Swiss wife U.S. citizenship.
The world, after the US has finished with all its financial enemies?
What Americans think will be left over once Global Warming finishes raising the world’s oceans.
I am not sure what any of you are talking about.
Thats simply a standard globe found in all US Schools and available at Wal Mart, K-Mart and Sears.
Though it appears to be missing the Puerto Rican continent.
John Q. Homelander
/snark off
FATCA: Fatal Agressive Tax Cancer Abroad
The world according to Congress (and the rest of the US government and most homelanders).
The sun appears to be shining on Alaska, so it’s Sarah Palin’s globe (she must have been lying about seeing Russia, though).
I have an old childhood friend in the US who was initially offended by my Facebook postings, but eventually realized that what’s happening to America’s emigrants actually hurts all Americans. We were discussing Rand Paul as the next president, and although he likes a lot of what Paul has to say (a strong 2nd Amendment defender), he was concerned about his foreign policy, specifically when it comes to military intervention. He wrote: “He also wants to bring all of our armed forces home and let the world fend for itself, an idea considered by many a left wing politicians but would only allow others to expand and dominate natural resources, sea lanes, trade routes, etc.”
Domination of the world justified out of concern for the world.
The United States of Hypocrisy- ‘Hawaii, Tibet of the Pacific- Produced by Ken O’Keefe- A TJP Film
http://vimeo.com/45388589
@ Bubblebustin
The new U.S. adage is, “We have to kill you to save you.” Of course the only thing “saved” is the mighty U.S. military industrial complex and the wealth of the worldwide monetary ponzi schemers. I’m really worried WW3, whatever form that might take, is drawing nearer. You always hope wiser heads will prevail but then you look at all the major politicians of the world and they are nothing but bobble-heads. Sigh. Maybe Deckard’s blue ball is what the world would look like post WW3 if the U.S. arsenal consisted of nothing but blue paint balls.
It is a graphic for Lee Greenwood’s song, God Bless the USA:
LOL, EmBee
Petros, could you imagine any Canadian singing a song like that about Canada? Most of us would think he was nuts.
The same songwriter has a song “God Bless You Canada,” available on Youtube.
Doesn’t the picture symbolize America adrift?
I thought you were kidding, Publius, but it’s true. He still couldn’t help but make it about the US however, because as he’s proud to be in Canada, he still had to make it from the perspective of an American in Detroit. Wierd.
http://youtu.be/Bf3e9Cl1-Bs
Lee Greenwood ought to sing a song about the Brockers. Brockers are fighting to allow Americans to leave the US and not be tracked by the US Government abroad.
If that’s not a freedom issue, I don’t know what is.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/map-most-obese-states-shows-155633041.html?bcmt_s=m#ugccmt-container
Would anyone like to swamp these two commenter with comments: These two are absolutely delusional.
Janice D’Amico “It’s not your tax dollars once paid its your fair share to pay for the benefits you use every day. Everyone pays taxes, and you just aren’t so special . You sound like the type that enjoys hunger in America and seeing poverty grow, and are OK with the richest not paying their fair share of taxes.Look at the map, and see the most obese are in the red states, and are conservatives, too poor and uneducated to vote for their own health. So even your poor excuse for liberal bashing is dumb.” – the Liberal entitlement reeks in this one.
“So you are OK for Americans to leave the country and if their income is from our country they shouldn’t pay. You are the one arguing about leeches but the one promoting not everyone paying their share.That would make you the leech.”
Long on America: “EXPATS have 1. a higher rate of government checks than working Americans in the US. 2. EXPATS would be in deep dodo if it were not for our State Department, Foreign Service strong treaties and our Military to back all that up. 3, When times get tough EXPATS come back…very few EXPATS give up US Citizenship…because the US Government remains (in spite of its warts) the best long term choice there is…”
“All an EXPAT who doesn’t want to pay US taxes has to do is give up US Citizenship and join the Country that would have them….ha! “
Well…we have had patriotic Canadian songs…like this one during the Great War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lrSrYEBN4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78LuJa_cKjI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHt1DgeRwuo
“Something To Sing About” (This Land of Ours) – Oscar Brand
Another view of America’s idea of exceptionalism. “Everybody else will supply what we want.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2012/12/03/what-happens-when-america-no-longer-needs-middle-east-oil/
“The U.S. may continue to use oil from Canada, Venezuela and other nearby countries if prices are competitive, but the IEA predicts Asian nations will end up consuming 90% of the oil produced in the Persian Gulf.” – Of course he prefaces this with the comment that America will become self-sufficient in oil… “The latest edition of the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook says America will surpass Saudi Arabia as the biggest oil producer in 2020 and become self-sufficient in energy by 2030 as new drilling technologies, alternative fuels and declining consumption reduce the need to import oil.”
a) He doesn’t consider the fact that the US is 18T in debt and spending “like a shopping addict with hundreds of credit cards”
b) He also doesn’t consider that US foreign policy is causing other countries to not want anything to do with the United States and may in essence cause those countries he names to become “insular” with their own energy resources who may switch buyers to countries who are solvent or less debt-ridden.