So, what's the plan? What's your plan?

[mucholderthandirt]

49. My plan is to die on my feet, free. If it comes to that.

I have no passport. I have nowhere else to go. My kids won't leave, so I won't. I refuse to leave my boys here, alone, no matter what happens.

Even if we got passports, where would we go? Who would take us in? We're not scientists, or computer experts, or have any kind of skills anyone would want. I'm old, sick and have no savings. We're just working poor people. No country wants more of those, they have plenty of their own.

Many countries you could maybe get into aren't any better than here. They have unstable governments, or are on the verge of being just as bad, or worse, than what we're having here.

Frankly, the time to leave the US was forty years ago, before Reagan. It was easier to get into other countries, you could even sneak out of the country without a passport and hope to get unnoticed wherever you went.

It's a nice daydream, finding a sanctuary somewhere, with sane government and nice people, good climate, low cost of living. But it's only a dream.