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My father is 100% Polish, mother is 0% Polish. Citizenship in Poland. [29]
Answering your question will get dangerously off topic and might spawn an unrelated argument, but I'll risk it because I think this is important.
I've worked my ass off in school. In college, I studied hard, got a degree Summa Cum Laude in Mathematics. In the summers, I worked full time jobs, and at times, 2 full time jobs (80 hour weeks) at very, very crappy jobs so I wouldn't have to take out too much in loans. I graduated and went to grad school. I spent 60 hour weeks studying nothing but math and physics. I graduated among the top of my class, and I got an excellent paying job in a field I enjoy very much. Its still an entry-level job and I work very hard, to the order of 50-60 hour weeks (USA has 40 hour work weeks standard) to get ahead. I've been rewarded financially for my hard work.
But along comes this guy. He says - and these are more or less direct quotes, which you can google yourself - "No, no, no. You don't have a right to your money. You have to help THIS guy over here. THIS guy, who doesn't work because he doesn't want to. THIS guy who doesn't strive to better." Obama has promised that to give people who don't pay taxes cash back. Where does this cash come from? It's from hard working people like myself.
I have a strong drive to improve myself and my condition. I was taught work ethic. I'll be damned if my hard work is going to pay off for somebody else. That just won't happen.
Other things:
1. Economic collapse. Well, collapse isn't the right word. But the flux of money going into the stock market is going to be negative for obvious reasons (taxing the rich has consequences). I'd like to retire and live well. This may not be possible, although I still have a lot of time to plan.
2. America is going to go through a famine in 2009. You didn't know that, did you? It's not being reported. But it's going to happen. In 2008, the USA's breadbasket experienced terrible, horrible flooding. Our grain, corn, etc. crop will be destroyed. The price for grain, which is traded in futures, much like oil, will sky rocket. I expect riots, and an overall ineffectiveness of the Government to handle the situation. I know this seems far-fetched, but I give this a VERY high probability of happening.
There's a lot up in the air, but there has already been a bit of an emigration already. The emigration is small but I expect it to continue .Expect to hear about this trend shortly in the future.
