My dream is probably to get my sons to Canada,

[bvar22]

38. Check & Mate.

Perfect rebuttal of a bullshit post.

My wife & I came to the same epiphany as the OP in 2004.
We recognized that WE, as Working Class Americans, no longer had representation in our government. We stayed in the US, but sold everything and moved to a very rural area and started growing our own food. Had we known in 2005 that we would be mandated into the arms of the For Profit Health Insurance Cartel,
we would have tried harder to move to a country where access to health care is still considered a Human Right.

Anyone who chooses to move their children to a nation that values the old, traditional Democratic Values enumerated by FDR in 1944 has my respect,
because those values are no longer advanced today's New Democrat Centrist Party.

"In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established [font size=3]for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.[/font]

Among these are:

*The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;

*The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;

*The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;

*The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;

*The right of every family to a decent home;

*The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;

*The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;

*The right to a good education.

All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.

America's own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for all our citizens." --FDER

Please note that FDR specified the above as Basic Human RIGHTS to be protected and administered by our Government of the People,
and NOT as Commodities to be sold at a profit to the American people by Private Corporations.

There was a time, not so long ago, when voting FOR The Democrat
was voting FOR the above values.
Sadly, this is no longer true.

--bvar22