Jarhead said:
"He's dictatorial, is what he is," Rep. Paul said before the end of the interview.
Is this just hyperbole or does Ron Paul actually believe as some of us do?
It's all relative (in my opinion). Obama may be dictatorial, but the U.S. is still one of the better homes in a bad neighborhood.
Some people are clamoring to bug out of places like Argentina or Russia and move elsewhere, for example.
Russians are leaving the country in droves
Some chafe at life under Vladimir Putin's rule, but for many others, economic limitations are the prime motivator. Experts say the numbers have reached demographically dangerous levels.
Roughly 1.25 million Russians have left the country in the last 10 years, Sergei Stepashin, head of the national Audit Chamber, told the radio station Echo of Moscow. The chamber tracks migration through tax revenues.
He said the exodus is so large, it's comparable in numbers to the outrush in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution.
"About as many left the country after 1917," he said.
Experts believe that 100,000 to 150,000 people now leave the country annually and warn that the exodus reached dangerous dimensions in the last three years.
I guess the lesson here is that once a place goes bad, it stays bad for a very long time (e.g., In speech, John Boehner warns of 'Soviet-style' Russia). Let's hope Churchill was right when he said the United States always does the right thing after exhausting all other possibilities.
