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   dennis17 said, 3 months ago

   Apparently I missed whatever article this is based upon. I was not aware anyone was leaving, except for a handful of illegals who are supposedly “self-deporting”.. I AM aware that we make it hard for people to come here legally. And after 9-11 Muslims supposedly were reluctant to come here because of the reasonable fear of a poor reception. Internally, people like those above are supposedly pouring out of California, but that’s obviously not the issue here.
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   chromosome said, 3 months ago

   I’ve heard of people on fixed (low) incomes, with health problems and people who have hit hard times leaving to countries with lower cost of living.
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   dtroutma said, 3 months ago

   I think it has to do with the fact Obama’s administration has deported more folks, and also his call for changing “rules” so we can KEEP highly trained (in the US) folks as citizens rather than kicking them out.
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   mdavis4183 said, 3 months ago

   A bunch of the “ricH” Obama hates are getting out while the getting’s good.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

   Our economy is still so bad that we are not getting many coming in anymore. And some of them are leaving for other countries, even their own.
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   Richard S. Russell said, 3 months ago

   When it says “bon voyage”, I can’t help but think of Gomez Addams.
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   edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago

   We have not been welcoming immigrants for quite some time, and make it extremely hard for legals to get green cards/naturalization. In addition we have been deporting at a higher level, and with the slow economy, many are choosing to leave on their own.
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   Chillbilly said, 3 months ago

   @mdavis4183

   Rich people don’t leave America. Their MONEY does. And I have a friend who left America for Europe because he lost his job and health care. He was a university graduate with great technical skills, now floundering in Spain because he’s a diabetic and can’t get medical care here. Nice.
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   Adrian Snare said, 3 months ago

   Of course some people are leaving America, its the nature of man…to wander, even leave Eden..
   I suspect that our “welcome mat” is no longer out..
   Opportunities are in Mexico ? and China ?
   Not really based on truth…..I admit..
   Has anyone figured out what the base of prosperity is ?
   I do know that a prime factor is truth.
   I think that we should relax, smile, be less intolerant, less extremist…
   The state of mind is important.
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    SABRSteve said, 3 months ago

    Is George Soros in line, I hope?
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    DrCanuck said, 3 months ago

    @dennis17

    Americans are flooding into Canada in order to breath free, not to mention the jobs, universal health care, stricter gun laws, civility, clean environments, and all that other socialist stuff.
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    wbr said, 3 months ago

    trying to find numbers on canada — USA in 2010 9243 left USA for canada vs 2000 to 2010 214282 left canada for USA
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    DrCanuck said, 3 months ago

    @wbr

    ^ Yeah, that was us getting rid of our Rednecks.
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    dennis17 said, 3 months ago

    I note DrCanuck says “breath-free” not “live free”. My understanding is that Canadian “civility” is of the doctrinaire pc type—you can be as vicious as you like about certain groups, but not a whisper about certain other groups. Oliphant could never get along there. Canada used to be one of the whitest countries in the world. If all the “rednecks” have left, the Asians and Muslims must be a majority now.
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    Argon said, 3 months ago

    It doesn’t matter if the administration is Democratic or Republican as the occupants (with few notable exceptions) are vetted by the corporate interests of finance and the military police congressional industrial entertainment complex.

    Amendments 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13,14,15,19 and Habeas Corpus have been deluded and deteriorated to various degrees (along with the post office) almost to irrelevance even while the fear mongers and NRA rabbel rousers inflame the population with the 2nd amendment fantasies to the exclusion of all else. The police and legal system do not protect the rights of citizens: its not about justice – its all about maintaining order cloaked within the pretense of “civil rights”.

    Many sense the Iron fist of corporate rule encircling and tightening around the populations collective throats despite the velvet glove’s assurances.

    The problem is in finding countries not in the clutches of the right wing neo-liberalism financial agenda of To big to fail, to big to jail corporate plutocratic / oligarchical rule.

    If not for personal obligations and old age, I would seriously consider emigrating
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