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love_katz

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4. I wish I could have emigrated back in the mid 1980's.
Sat Mar 15, 2025, 04:50 PM
Mar 2025

I couldn't afford to live without help from my family, after my divorce. I wish so very much that I could have moved to B. C., or the Yukon. It is so beautiful there!
If I had managed to emigrate, I could have applied for citizenship and happily lived in a country where most people are kind and that also doesn't bankrupt people for medical care.
America needs to drop the toxic frontier mentality of having to " pull yourself up by your bootstraps". This stupid phrase was originally meant to denote an impossible task.
I wish more of our people would understand and embrace the concept that everyone does better when we all do better. We need to fight back against propaganda and spread the truth that taking care of all of our citizens is the right thing to do.

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