Tea Bag Land?

by Bryan

4 comments

1 andante { 04.17.09 at 5:02 am }

Great idea, a nice long-term stay in sunny Somalia! No taxes!

Drive the immaculately paved highways! Quick, prompt response (if needed) from police! Need health care? No taxes to bother your pocketbook – no “social” programs whatsoever! Somalia’s got nuthin’ !

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2 Bryan { 04.17.09 at 12:01 pm }

These people need to read some real journals, written by real people, about what life was really like when this county was being settled. It was no Garden of Eden, and people were damn glad when “civilization” arrived.

These people have no idea what it was like when we first drove down to this area in the early 1950s from upstate New York. There was a whole lot of nothing, and you carried extra fuel, food, and water with you because there weren’t all that many places to stop to get more.

Too many people don’t really understand where roads come from, or who pays the police and firefighters, or why there is a school. Let them move to a failed nation and figure it out for themselves.

3 andante { 04.17.09 at 2:01 pm }

I like the idea of Somalia. Beyond all the lack of basic services these yay-hoos have come to expect (I guess for no money on their part), there are BLACK PEOPLE.

That’s what it’s all about, at the bottom. And Somalia would give them so much to gripe about. Just think of the fun they’d have when the local warlord decides he’s had enough of their nonsense.

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4 Bryan { 04.17.09 at 2:28 pm }

Of course, the first problem would be to find some way to make a living without all of the government support services that they think should be stopped because they don’t want to pay for them.

Warloads are proto-governments, and they exist in all areas. They are clan/tribe arrangements, so immigrants are toast. There is no support beyond the family, so anyone can take a dislike to you and cancel your ticket.

Somalia is the real version of “Survivor”, but votes are a bit more final.