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Domingo Tavella

(41 posts)
65. Lucky her
Tue Apr 17, 2012, 01:12 AM
Apr 2012

It is not easy to emigrate. You don't just show up at the NZ embassy and declare you want to go and live there. It simply does not work like that. Some of us are lucky enough to have more than one passport, but the vast majority of Americans don't have the luxury of choosing where to spend the last decades of their lives, when health becomes a most important issue. It is indeed a tragedy that with the money wasted in invading Iraq (close to 4 trillion over 10 years) it would have been possible to finance universal health care and then some. But spending on health is not as glamorous as spending on war and it is up to the American voter to wake up and do what is right.

"You can’t be about profit and be about a social service." elleng Apr 2012 #1
That simple malaise Apr 2012 #5
+1 Fearless Apr 2012 #37
+ another 1 n/t Beartracks Apr 2012 #45
Good for her. More people should abandon this shithole. nt Nay Apr 2012 #2
I'd LOVE to go there! No resources to do it, though... Ship of Fools Apr 2012 #3
I'd love to blow this pop stand of a country. Not able to financially. SammyWinstonJack Apr 2012 #6
Try telling this to the "Love it or leave it" crew . . . HughBeaumont Apr 2012 #7
+1 n/t n2doc Apr 2012 #17
My reply to them is always. obxhead Apr 2012 #18
I would leave if it were possible. dogknob Apr 2012 #24
The US is a virtual prison. Snake Alchemist Apr 2012 #26
You realize that those who can do so are predominantly the upper-middle coalition_unwilling Apr 2012 #31
Some people here seem to not give a shit. Daniel537 Apr 2012 #42
Hmm, Daniel537 only joined DU 9 April 2012 and yet feels comfortable deriding people as peacebird Apr 2012 #53
"Surely they can sell their summer home if need be" seems to be the reaction. nt Snake Alchemist Apr 2012 #50
She went to NZ and GOT single payer health care. To me that is NOT giving up. KurtNYC Apr 2012 #4
+1 nt xchrom Apr 2012 #9
+2 Fearless Apr 2012 #38
Good luck to her. Maybe if we keep losing doctors to other countries our own government southernyankeebelle Apr 2012 #8
We're planning to do the same. LittleGirl Apr 2012 #10
It's easy to give up. mmonk Apr 2012 #11
Unfortunately, not everyone has this opportunity. nt Snake Alchemist Apr 2012 #12
this kind of an exodus can be avoided if the left would get more serious about challenging talk radi certainot Apr 2012 #13
Rush, arguably the most followed right wing talk radio but has obxhead Apr 2012 #20
he's point man for 1000 coordinated stations, creating made-to-order constituencies and alternate certainot Apr 2012 #75
Right Wing Talk Radio is a Huge Problem For Us, But What Can We Do About It? AndyTiedye Apr 2012 #43
RW radio monopoly can't survive without university sports, and those unis should be ashamed certainot Apr 2012 #74
That is a Good Suggestion AndyTiedye Apr 2012 #76
+1000... Anyone who questions the power of a broadcast platform to disseminate shcrane71 Apr 2012 #60
Funny my two daughters have thought about New Zealand exboyfil Apr 2012 #14
They damned near had to drag me on the plane in NZ. sofa king Apr 2012 #15
Most places people want to go to are hard to get into. nt Snake Alchemist Apr 2012 #16
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free” harun Apr 2012 #19
She's lucky she has a profession that can "move" easily. If she were a hairdresser or clerk SoCalDem Apr 2012 #21
I don't know if it has changed, but my wife and I looked into relocating 15 years ago Dragonfli Apr 2012 #23
Sorry, I am on the fence about this one. Ruby the Liberal Apr 2012 #22
But that was New Zealand's choice to let her in. Quantess Apr 2012 #27
I am not speaking about one individual Ruby the Liberal Apr 2012 #28
Well, I can see your point about that. Quantess Apr 2012 #30
She wants Romney to win!!!11! OnyxCollie Apr 2012 #25
The sort of attitude displayed in this thread is why the Right is able to label us as Anti-American. Mr.Turnip Apr 2012 #29
The U.S. IS a shithole. 50 million Americans currently receiving food stamps. 44 million coalition_unwilling Apr 2012 #32
Amen. Plus...we're up to our asses in debt...so far, in fact, we're NEVER going to get out. Period. BlueJazz Apr 2012 #48
The way to win hearts and minds OnyxCollie Apr 2012 #33
And see that's why someone like you will never win an election in any major capacity. Mr.Turnip Apr 2012 #35
Was I trying to win an election? OnyxCollie Apr 2012 #36
That's the problem. white_wolf Apr 2012 #40
America is a fairly highly-developed Western Nation with a currently flawed Economic system. Mr.Turnip Apr 2012 #51
"It's by no measure the worst place in the world" -- aka damning it with faint praise. I guess you coalition_unwilling Apr 2012 #54
Whoo hoo! We're better than North Korea! OnyxCollie Apr 2012 #62
Of course, there are worse places to live. white_wolf Apr 2012 #56
Ok. Let's do this. FedUp_Queer Apr 2012 #47
You need BOTH, and they DON'T get along. That's why politics is hard. saras Apr 2012 #52
Fair enough. FedUp_Queer Apr 2012 #73
+1 Daniel537 Apr 2012 #41
brown nosing has gotten us this far got root Apr 2012 #59
Why do you care what the 'Right thinks'?? Surely if you are a Democrat you know that the Right sabrina 1 Apr 2012 #63
I've Been To Heaven nwliberalkiwi Apr 2012 #34
Good luck getting citizenship SHRED Apr 2012 #39
Glad she could move to NZ newfie11 Apr 2012 #44
K&R DeSwiss Apr 2012 #46
Wish we could subcontract our healthcare system to France. n/t SDjack Apr 2012 #49
Smart people are leaving this country magic59 Apr 2012 #55
More expats gave up citizenship EmeraldCityGrl Apr 2012 #58
The awful truth. Mimosa Apr 2012 #57
I was just thinking that the US will have a brain drain first as the most educated shcrane71 Apr 2012 #61
it will be massive ....what will be left lovuian Apr 2012 #64
Move over lavish suburbs! Make way for favellas. nt shcrane71 Apr 2012 #72
Lucky her Domingo Tavella Apr 2012 #65
Hmmm Bigredhunk Apr 2012 #66
can't say i blame her Tax Man Apr 2012 #67
It's all of our loss that such a dedicated professional has chosen to leave suffragette Apr 2012 #68
If she's over 55 she can't get in. wickerwoman Apr 2012 #69
The former chair of HCFA-WA got in at age 57 eridani Apr 2012 #71
Incredibly depressing because it's true AnnieK401 Apr 2012 #70
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