There is great food for thought and discussion in this article.
Curious Carl
************
America: The Grim Truth
BY LANCE FREEMAN
( Associate Professor at Columbia University)
Americans, I have some bad news for you:
You have the worst quality of life in the developed world - by a wide
margin.
If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe , Australia
, New Zealand , Canada and many parts of Asia , you'd be rioting in the
streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or
Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the
typical American white-collar worker.
I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call
home.
I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and
there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United
States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.
Consider this: you are the only people in the developed world without a
single-payer health system. Everyone in Western Europe , Japan , Canada ,
Australia , Singapore and New Zealand has a single-payer system. If they get
sick, they can devote all their energies to getting well. If you get sick,
you have to battle two things at once: your illness and the fear of
financial ruin. Millions of Americans go bankrupt every year due to medical
bills, and tens of thousands die each year because they have no insurance or
insufficient insurance. And don't believe for a second that rot about
America having the world's best medical care or the shortest waiting lists:
I've been to hospitals in Australia , New Zealand , Europe, Singapore , and
Thailand , and every one was better than the "good" hospital I used to go to
back home. The waits were shorter, the facilities more comfortable, and the
doctors just as good.
This is ironic, because you need a good health system more than anyone else
in the world. Why? Because your lifestyle is almost designed to make you
sick.
Let's start with your diet: Much of the beef you eat has been exposed to
fecal matter in processing. Your chicken is contaminated with salmonella.
Your stock animals and poultry are pumped full of growth hormones and
antibiotics. In most other countries, the government would act to protect
consumers from this sort of thing; in the United States , the government is
bought off by industry to prevent any effective regulations or inspections.
In a few years, the majority of all the produce for sale in the United
States will be from genetically modified crops, thanks to the cozy
relationship between Monsanto Corporation and the United States government.
Worse still, due to the vast quantities of high-fructose corn syrup
Americans consume, fully one-third of children born in the United States
today will be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes at some point in their lives.
Of course, it's not just the food that's killing you, it's the drugs. If you
show any sign of life when you're young, they'll put you on Ritalin. Then,
when you get old enough to take a good look around, you'll get depressed, so
they'll give you Prozac. If you're a man, this will render you chemically
impotent, so you'll need Viagra to get it up. Meanwhile, your steady diet of
trans-fat-laden food is guaranteed to give you high cholesterol, so you'll
get a prescription for Lipitor. Finally, at the end of the day, you'll lay
awake at night worrying about losing your health plan, so you'll need
Lunesta to go to sleep.
With a diet guaranteed to make you sick and a health system designed to make
sure you stay that way, what you really need is a long vacation somewhere.
Unfortunately, you probably can't take one. I'll let you in on little
secret: if you go to the beaches of Thailand, the mountains of Nepal, or the
coral reefs of Australia, you'll probably be the only American in sight. And
you'll be surrounded crowds of happy Germans, French, Italians, Israelis,
Scandinavians and wealthy Asians. Why? Because they're paid well enough to
afford to visit these places AND they can take vacations long enough to do
so. Even if you could scrape together enough money to go to one of these
incredible places, by the time you recovered from your jetlag, it would time
to get on a plane and rush back to your job.
If you think I'm making this up, check the stats on average annual vacation
days by country:
Finland : 44
Italy : 42
France : 39
Germany : 35
UK : 25
Japan : 18
USA : 12
The fact is, they work you like dogs in the United States . This should come
as no surprise: the United States never got away from the plantation/sweat
shop labor model and any real labor movement was brutally suppressed. Unless
you happen to be a member of the ownership class, your options are pretty
much limited to barely surviving on service-sector wages or playing musical
chairs for a spot in a cubicle (a spot that will be outsourced to India next
week anyway). The very best you can hope for is to get a professional degree
and then milk the system for a slice of the middle-class pie. And even those
who claw their way into the middle class are but one illness or job loss
away from poverty. Your jobs aren't secure. Your company has no loyalty to
you. They'll play you off against your coworkers for as long as it suits
them, then they'll get rid of you.
Of course, you don't have any choice in the matter: the system is designed
this way. In most countries in the developed world, higher education is
either free or heavily subsidized; in the United States , a university
degree can set you back over US$100,000. Thus, you enter the working world
with a crushing debt. Forget about taking a year off to travel the world and
find yourself - you've got to start working or watch your credit rating
plummet.
If you're "lucky," you might even land a job good enough to qualify you for
a home loan. And then you'll spend half your working life just paying the
interest on the loan - welcome to the world of American debt slavery.
America has the illusion of great wealth because there's a lot of "stuff"
around, but who really owns it? In real terms, the average American is
poorer than the poorest ghetto dweller in Manila , because at least they
have no debts. If they want to pack up and leave, they can; if you want to
leave, you can't, because you've got debts to pay.
All this begs the question: Why would anyone put up with this? Ask any
American and you'll get the same answer: because America is the freest
country on earth. If you believe this, I've got some more bad news for you:
America is actually among the least free countries on earth. Your piss is
tested, your emails and phone calls are monitored, your medical records are
gathered, and you are never more than one stray comment away from writhing
on the ground with two Taser prongs in your ass.
And that's just physical freedom. Mentally, you are truly imprisoned. You
don't even know the degree to which you are tormented by fears of medical
bankruptcy, job loss, homelessness and violent crime because you've never
lived in a country where there is no need to worry about such things.
But it goes much deeper than mere surveillance and anxiety. The fact is, you
are not free because your country has been taken over and occupied by
another government. Fully 70% of your tax dollars go to the Pentagon, and
the Pentagon is the real government of the United States . You are required
under pain of death to pay taxes to this occupying government. If you're
from the less fortunate classes, you are also required to serve and die in
their endless wars, or send your sons and daughters to do so. You have no
choice in the matter: there is a socio-economic draft system in the United
States that provides a steady stream of cannon fdder for the military.
If you call a life of surveillance, anxiety and ceaseless toil in the
service of a government you didn't elect "freedom," then you and I have a
very different idea of what that word means.
If there was some chance that the country could be changed, there might be
reason for hope. But can you honestly look around and conclude that anything
is going to change? Where would the change come from? The people? Take a
good look at your compatriots: the working class in the United States has
been brutally propagandized by jackals like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and
Sean Hannity. Members of the working class have been taught to lick the
boots of their masters and then bend over for another kick in the ass.
They've got these people so well trained that they'll take up arms against
the other half of the working class as soon as their masters give the word.
If the people cannot make a change, how about the media? Not a chance. From
Fox News to the New York Times, the mass media in the United States is
nothing but the public relations wing of the corporatocracy, primarily the
military industrial complex. At least the citizens of the former Soviet
Union knew that their news was bullshit. In America , you grow up thinking
you've got a free media, which makes the propaganda doubly effective. If you
don't think American media is mere corporate propaganda, ask yourself the
following question: have you ever heard a major American news outlet suggest
that the country could fund a single-payer health system by cutting military
spending?
If change can't come from the people or the media, the only other potential
source of change would be the politicians. Unfortunately, the American
political process is among the most corrupt in the world. In every country
on earth, one expects politicians to take bribes from the rich. But this
generally happens in secret, behind the closed doors of their elite clubs.
In the United States , this sort of political corruption is done in broad
daylight, as part of legal, accepted, standard operating procedure. In the
United States , they merely call these bribes campaign donations, political
action committees and lobbyists. One can no more expect the politicians to
change this system than one can expect a man to take an axe and chop his own
legs out from underneath him.
No, the United States of America is not going to change for the better. The
only change will be for the worse. And when I say worse, I mean much worse.
As we speak, the economic system that sustained the country during the
post-war years is collapsing. The United States maxed out its "credit card"
sometime in 2008 and now its lenders, starting with China , are in the
process of laying the foundations for a new monetary system to replace the
Anglo-American "petro-dollar" system. As soon as there is a viable
alternative to the US dollar, the greenback will sink like a stone.
While the United States was running up crushing levels of debt, it was also
busy shipping its manufacturing jobs and white-collar jobs overseas, and
letting its infrastructure fall to pieces. Meanwhile, Asian and European
countries were investing in education, infrastructure and raw materials.
Even if the United States tried to rebuild a real economy (as opposed to a
service/financial economy) do think American workers would ever be able to
compete with the workers of China or Europe ? Have you ever seen a Japanese
or German factory? Have you ever met a Singaporean or Chinese worker?
There are only two possible futures facing the United States , and neither
one is pretty. The best case is a slow but orderly decline - essentially a
continuation of what's been happening for the last two decades. Wages will
drop, unemployment will rise, Medicare and Social Security benefits will be
slashed, the currency will decline in value, and the disparity of wealth
will spiral out of control until the United States starts to resemble Mexico
or the Philippines - tiny islands of wealth surrounded by great poverty (the
country is already halfway there).
Equally likely is a sudden collapse, perhaps brought about by a rapid flight
from the US dollar by creditor nations like China , Japan , Korea and the
OPEC nations. A related possibility would be a default by the United States
government on its vast debt. One look at the financial balance sheet of the
US government should convince you how likely this is: governmental spending
is skyrocketing and tax receipts are plummeting - something has to give. If
either of these scenarios plays out, the resulting depression will make the
present recession look like a walk in the park.
Whether the collapse is gradual or gut-wrenchingly sudden, the results will
be chaos, civil strife and fascism. Let's face it: the United States is like
the former Yugoslavia - a collection of mutually antagonistic cultures
united in name only. You've got your own version of the Taliban: right-wing
Christian fundamentalists who actively loathe the idea of secular
Constitutional government. You've got a vast intellectual underclass that
has spent the last few decades soaking up Fox News and talk radio
propaganda, eager to blame the collapse on Democrats, gays and immigrants.
You've got a ruthless ownership class that will use all the means at its
disposal to protect its wealth from the starving masses.
On top of all that you've got vast factory farms, sprawling suburbs and a
truck-based shipping system, all of it entirely dependent on oil that is
about to become completely unaffordable. And you've got guns. Lots of guns.
In short: the United States is about to become a very unwholesome place to
be.
Right now, the government is building fences and walls along its northern
and southern borders. Right now, the government is working on a national ID
system (soon to be fitted with biometric features). Right now, the
government is building a surveillance state so extensive that they will be
able to follow your every move, online, in the street and across borders. If
you think this is just to protect you from "terrorists," then you're sadly
mistaken. Once the shit really hits the fan, do you really think you'll just
be able to jump into the old station wagon, drive across the Canadian border
and spend the rest of your days fishing and drinking Molson? No, the
government is going to lock the place down. They don't want their tax base
escaping. They don't want their "recruits" escaping. They don't want YOU
escaping.
I am not writing this to scare you. I write this to you as a friend. If you
are able to read and understand what I've written here, then you are a
member of a small minority in the United States . You are a minority in a
country that has no place for you.
So what should you do?
You should leave the United States of America .
If you're young, you've got plenty of choices: you can teach English in the
Middle East, Asia or Europe . Or you can go to university or graduate school
abroad and start building skills that will qualify you for a work visa. If
you've already got some real work skills, you can apply to emigrate to any
number of countries as a skilled immigrant. If you are older and you've got
some savings, you can retire to a place like Costa Rica or the Philippines .
If you can't qualify for a work, student or retirement visa, don't let that
stop you - travel on a tourist visa to a country that appeals to you and
talk to the expats you meet there. Whatever you do, go speak to an
immigration lawyer as soon as you can. Find out exactly how to get on a path
that will lead to permanent residence and eventually citizenship in the
country of your choice.
You will not be alone. There are millions of Americans just like me living
outside the United States . Living lives much more fulfilling, peaceful,
free and abundant than we ever could have attained back home. Some of us
happened upon these lives by accident - we tried a year abroad and found
that we liked it - others made a conscious decision to pack up and leave for
good. You'll find us in Canada , all over Europe, in many parts of Asia, in
Australia and New Zealand , and in most other countries of the globe. Do we
miss our friends and family? Yes. Do we occasionally miss aspects of our
former country? Yes. Do we plan on ever living again in the United States ?
Never. And those of us with permanent residence or citizenship can sponsor
family members from back home for long-term visas in our adopted countries.
In closing, I want to remind you of something: unless you are an American
Indian or a descendant of slaves, at some point your ancestors chose to
leave their homeland in search of a better life. They weren't traitors and
they weren't bad people, they just wanted a better life for themselves and
their families. Isn't it time that you continue their journey?
BY LANCE FREEMAN
( Associate Professor at Columbia University)
Americans, I have some bad news for you:
You have the worst quality of life in the developed world - by a wide
margin.
If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe , Australia
, New Zealand , Canada and many parts of Asia , you'd be rioting in the
streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or
Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the
typical American white-collar worker.
I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call
home.
I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and
there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United
States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.
Consider this: you are the only people in the developed world without a
single-payer health system. Everyone in Western Europe , Japan , Canada ,
Australia , Singapore and New Zealand has a single-payer system. If they get
sick, they can devote all their energies to getting well. If you get sick,
you have to battle two things at once: your illness and the fear of
financial ruin. Millions of Americans go bankrupt every year due to medical
bills, and tens of thousands die each year because they have no insurance or
insufficient insurance. And don't believe for a second that rot about
America having the world's best medical care or the shortest waiting lists:
I've been to hospitals in Australia , New Zealand , Europe, Singapore , and
Thailand , and every one was better than the "good" hospital I used to go to
back home. The waits were shorter, the facilities more comfortable, and the
doctors just as good.
This is ironic, because you need a good health system more than anyone else
in the world. Why? Because your lifestyle is almost designed to make you
sick.
Let's start with your diet: Much of the beef you eat has been exposed to
fecal matter in processing. Your chicken is contaminated with salmonella.
Your stock animals and poultry are pumped full of growth hormones and
antibiotics. In most other countries, the government would act to protect
consumers from this sort of thing; in the United States , the government is
bought off by industry to prevent any effective regulations or inspections.
In a few years, the majority of all the produce for sale in the United
States will be from genetically modified crops, thanks to the cozy
relationship between Monsanto Corporation and the United States government.
Worse still, due to the vast quantities of high-fructose corn syrup
Americans consume, fully one-third of children born in the United States
today will be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes at some point in their lives.
Of course, it's not just the food that's killing you, it's the drugs. If you
show any sign of life when you're young, they'll put you on Ritalin. Then,
when you get old enough to take a good look around, you'll get depressed, so
they'll give you Prozac. If you're a man, this will render you chemically
impotent, so you'll need Viagra to get it up. Meanwhile, your steady diet of
trans-fat-laden food is guaranteed to give you high cholesterol, so you'll
get a prescription for Lipitor. Finally, at the end of the day, you'll lay
awake at night worrying about losing your health plan, so you'll need
Lunesta to go to sleep.
With a diet guaranteed to make you sick and a health system designed to make
sure you stay that way, what you really need is a long vacation somewhere.
Unfortunately, you probably can't take one. I'll let you in on little
secret: if you go to the beaches of Thailand, the mountains of Nepal, or the
coral reefs of Australia, you'll probably be the only American in sight. And
you'll be surrounded crowds of happy Germans, French, Italians, Israelis,
Scandinavians and wealthy Asians. Why? Because they're paid well enough to
afford to visit these places AND they can take vacations long enough to do
so. Even if you could scrape together enough money to go to one of these
incredible places, by the time you recovered from your jetlag, it would time
to get on a plane and rush back to your job.
If you think I'm making this up, check the stats on average annual vacation
days by country:
Finland : 44
Italy : 42
France : 39
Germany : 35
UK : 25
Japan : 18
USA : 12
The fact is, they work you like dogs in the United States . This should come
as no surprise: the United States never got away from the plantation/sweat
shop labor model and any real labor movement was brutally suppressed. Unless
you happen to be a member of the ownership class, your options are pretty
much limited to barely surviving on service-sector wages or playing musical
chairs for a spot in a cubicle (a spot that will be outsourced to India next
week anyway). The very best you can hope for is to get a professional degree
and then milk the system for a slice of the middle-class pie. And even those
who claw their way into the middle class are but one illness or job loss
away from poverty. Your jobs aren't secure. Your company has no loyalty to
you. They'll play you off against your coworkers for as long as it suits
them, then they'll get rid of you.
Of course, you don't have any choice in the matter: the system is designed
this way. In most countries in the developed world, higher education is
either free or heavily subsidized; in the United States , a university
degree can set you back over US$100,000. Thus, you enter the working world
with a crushing debt. Forget about taking a year off to travel the world and
find yourself - you've got to start working or watch your credit rating
plummet.
If you're "lucky," you might even land a job good enough to qualify you for
a home loan. And then you'll spend half your working life just paying the
interest on the loan - welcome to the world of American debt slavery.
America has the illusion of great wealth because there's a lot of "stuff"
around, but who really owns it? In real terms, the average American is
poorer than the poorest ghetto dweller in Manila , because at least they
have no debts. If they want to pack up and leave, they can; if you want to
leave, you can't, because you've got debts to pay.
All this begs the question: Why would anyone put up with this? Ask any
American and you'll get the same answer: because America is the freest
country on earth. If you believe this, I've got some more bad news for you:
America is actually among the least free countries on earth. Your piss is
tested, your emails and phone calls are monitored, your medical records are
gathered, and you are never more than one stray comment away from writhing
on the ground with two Taser prongs in your ass.
And that's just physical freedom. Mentally, you are truly imprisoned. You
don't even know the degree to which you are tormented by fears of medical
bankruptcy, job loss, homelessness and violent crime because you've never
lived in a country where there is no need to worry about such things.
But it goes much deeper than mere surveillance and anxiety. The fact is, you
are not free because your country has been taken over and occupied by
another government. Fully 70% of your tax dollars go to the Pentagon, and
the Pentagon is the real government of the United States . You are required
under pain of death to pay taxes to this occupying government. If you're
from the less fortunate classes, you are also required to serve and die in
their endless wars, or send your sons and daughters to do so. You have no
choice in the matter: there is a socio-economic draft system in the United
States that provides a steady stream of cannon fdder for the military.
If you call a life of surveillance, anxiety and ceaseless toil in the
service of a government you didn't elect "freedom," then you and I have a
very different idea of what that word means.
If there was some chance that the country could be changed, there might be
reason for hope. But can you honestly look around and conclude that anything
is going to change? Where would the change come from? The people? Take a
good look at your compatriots: the working class in the United States has
been brutally propagandized by jackals like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and
Sean Hannity. Members of the working class have been taught to lick the
boots of their masters and then bend over for another kick in the ass.
They've got these people so well trained that they'll take up arms against
the other half of the working class as soon as their masters give the word.
If the people cannot make a change, how about the media? Not a chance. From
Fox News to the New York Times, the mass media in the United States is
nothing but the public relations wing of the corporatocracy, primarily the
military industrial complex. At least the citizens of the former Soviet
Union knew that their news was bullshit. In America , you grow up thinking
you've got a free media, which makes the propaganda doubly effective. If you
don't think American media is mere corporate propaganda, ask yourself the
following question: have you ever heard a major American news outlet suggest
that the country could fund a single-payer health system by cutting military
spending?
If change can't come from the people or the media, the only other potential
source of change would be the politicians. Unfortunately, the American
political process is among the most corrupt in the world. In every country
on earth, one expects politicians to take bribes from the rich. But this
generally happens in secret, behind the closed doors of their elite clubs.
In the United States , this sort of political corruption is done in broad
daylight, as part of legal, accepted, standard operating procedure. In the
United States , they merely call these bribes campaign donations, political
action committees and lobbyists. One can no more expect the politicians to
change this system than one can expect a man to take an axe and chop his own
legs out from underneath him.
No, the United States of America is not going to change for the better. The
only change will be for the worse. And when I say worse, I mean much worse.
As we speak, the economic system that sustained the country during the
post-war years is collapsing. The United States maxed out its "credit card"
sometime in 2008 and now its lenders, starting with China , are in the
process of laying the foundations for a new monetary system to replace the
Anglo-American "petro-dollar" system. As soon as there is a viable
alternative to the US dollar, the greenback will sink like a stone.
While the United States was running up crushing levels of debt, it was also
busy shipping its manufacturing jobs and white-collar jobs overseas, and
letting its infrastructure fall to pieces. Meanwhile, Asian and European
countries were investing in education, infrastructure and raw materials.
Even if the United States tried to rebuild a real economy (as opposed to a
service/financial economy) do think American workers would ever be able to
compete with the workers of China or Europe ? Have you ever seen a Japanese
or German factory? Have you ever met a Singaporean or Chinese worker?
There are only two possible futures facing the United States , and neither
one is pretty. The best case is a slow but orderly decline - essentially a
continuation of what's been happening for the last two decades. Wages will
drop, unemployment will rise, Medicare and Social Security benefits will be
slashed, the currency will decline in value, and the disparity of wealth
will spiral out of control until the United States starts to resemble Mexico
or the Philippines - tiny islands of wealth surrounded by great poverty (the
country is already halfway there).
Equally likely is a sudden collapse, perhaps brought about by a rapid flight
from the US dollar by creditor nations like China , Japan , Korea and the
OPEC nations. A related possibility would be a default by the United States
government on its vast debt. One look at the financial balance sheet of the
US government should convince you how likely this is: governmental spending
is skyrocketing and tax receipts are plummeting - something has to give. If
either of these scenarios plays out, the resulting depression will make the
present recession look like a walk in the park.
Whether the collapse is gradual or gut-wrenchingly sudden, the results will
be chaos, civil strife and fascism. Let's face it: the United States is like
the former Yugoslavia - a collection of mutually antagonistic cultures
united in name only. You've got your own version of the Taliban: right-wing
Christian fundamentalists who actively loathe the idea of secular
Constitutional government. You've got a vast intellectual underclass that
has spent the last few decades soaking up Fox News and talk radio
propaganda, eager to blame the collapse on Democrats, gays and immigrants.
You've got a ruthless ownership class that will use all the means at its
disposal to protect its wealth from the starving masses.
On top of all that you've got vast factory farms, sprawling suburbs and a
truck-based shipping system, all of it entirely dependent on oil that is
about to become completely unaffordable. And you've got guns. Lots of guns.
In short: the United States is about to become a very unwholesome place to
be.
Right now, the government is building fences and walls along its northern
and southern borders. Right now, the government is working on a national ID
system (soon to be fitted with biometric features). Right now, the
government is building a surveillance state so extensive that they will be
able to follow your every move, online, in the street and across borders. If
you think this is just to protect you from "terrorists," then you're sadly
mistaken. Once the shit really hits the fan, do you really think you'll just
be able to jump into the old station wagon, drive across the Canadian border
and spend the rest of your days fishing and drinking Molson? No, the
government is going to lock the place down. They don't want their tax base
escaping. They don't want their "recruits" escaping. They don't want YOU
escaping.
I am not writing this to scare you. I write this to you as a friend. If you
are able to read and understand what I've written here, then you are a
member of a small minority in the United States . You are a minority in a
country that has no place for you.
So what should you do?
You should leave the United States of America .
If you're young, you've got plenty of choices: you can teach English in the
Middle East, Asia or Europe . Or you can go to university or graduate school
abroad and start building skills that will qualify you for a work visa. If
you've already got some real work skills, you can apply to emigrate to any
number of countries as a skilled immigrant. If you are older and you've got
some savings, you can retire to a place like Costa Rica or the Philippines .
If you can't qualify for a work, student or retirement visa, don't let that
stop you - travel on a tourist visa to a country that appeals to you and
talk to the expats you meet there. Whatever you do, go speak to an
immigration lawyer as soon as you can. Find out exactly how to get on a path
that will lead to permanent residence and eventually citizenship in the
country of your choice.
You will not be alone. There are millions of Americans just like me living
outside the United States . Living lives much more fulfilling, peaceful,
free and abundant than we ever could have attained back home. Some of us
happened upon these lives by accident - we tried a year abroad and found
that we liked it - others made a conscious decision to pack up and leave for
good. You'll find us in Canada , all over Europe, in many parts of Asia, in
Australia and New Zealand , and in most other countries of the globe. Do we
miss our friends and family? Yes. Do we occasionally miss aspects of our
former country? Yes. Do we plan on ever living again in the United States ?
Never. And those of us with permanent residence or citizenship can sponsor
family members from back home for long-term visas in our adopted countries.
In closing, I want to remind you of something: unless you are an American
Indian or a descendant of slaves, at some point your ancestors chose to
leave their homeland in search of a better life. They weren't traitors and
they weren't bad people, they just wanted a better life for themselves and
their families. Isn't it time that you continue their journey?
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