My endodontist is from Pakistan, he has a practice in downriver area in Michigan and teaches in Pakistan, he told me that it used to be that his students wanted to come to the U.S., now he says that these students are watching what is happening here and no longer wish to come here, they see our freedoms being eroded and are planning on going elsewhere.

I once worked with an engineer who emigrated from Russia. He told me that when he and his wife saw they might have a chance to leave in 1991, they made arrangements. They were allowed one suitcase apiece. They were both in their early 60’s when they emigrated, knowing that there would be no Social Security for them, probably no retirement, and that they would very likely not get work in their field. Even so, they were both enormously grateful to have the chance to live in the US.

They aren’t unique. I’ve talked with and worked with people from all over the world, even from ostensibly ‘free’ countries like the UK, who came here for one reason. I hold a special contempt for those who would turn the US into a ‘worker’s paradise’. If freedom in the US disappears, there’s nowhere left to go.

“I’ve noticed those in favor of State-directed societies never seem to want to move to one. ”

I have noticed that those in favor of freedom flock to this country in droves. Many of them are so desperate that they break the law in order to enter this country.

In the days of the iron curtain, many were so desperate for freedom that they risked death just to get to Western Europe.

Concur. I’ve noticed those in favor of State-directed societies never seem to want to move to one. Instead, they want to turn free societies into Orwellian nightmares; I suspect because they think they’ll be in charge (things never work out that way). We see this in the emigration of Big Government types from states where they voted for Big Government, saw the effects, and move to states with less government. Of course, the first thing they want to do is enact the very policies that failed in the first place.

The author of this tripe is encouraged to export his self to n. Korea, he seems so enamored with the benefits of communism, he can stay there!!

See: Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, California, New York City, Presidential elections of 2008/2012, and this gem

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/02/why_youre_wrong_about_communism_7_huge_misconceptions_about_it_and_capitalism/.

I’ll be commenting on the last in the very near future.