I'm not worried about the fall of western civilization as we know it....
because I would rather be dead than live in the stone age.
What I AM worried about is the trend toward fascism in the US. I would like to have somewhere to run to if the US started to behave like the patriot acts allow it to. The president believes he can lock up US born US citizens without charge or attorney on his say-so alone, simply by declaring them to be enemy combattants. Jose Padilla is a US born US citizen. The courts have said, charge him or turn him loose and the gov't still keeps him locked up. If it can happen to him, it could happen to me and mine. It hasn't yet happened in large numbers but I'm thinking about what COULD happen if the President decides that God wants him to do this or that.
The DR is relatively easy to get into if you have some cash to live on. It's easy to get into if you don't too, so long as you come from a country that's better off than the DR, (just about everywhere except Haiti
) but
I'm talking about a residence permit. I'm not rich but I have enough to keep the standard of living, say, like a middle class mexican in Mexico for about 3 years. I've been to Mexico, I know the prices there. I know the standard of living. Do you think that the DR would be a good place to sit things out and see if things at home get better? Better than Mexico? Thank you. BTW, I'm not planning to flee tomorrow. Just looking at options.
Carsten
