And ATLAS IS SHRUGGING !
The USA is next!
Anybody know where Galts Gulch is today? I'm ready to move.

Thanks for the education. I thought I had heard about such an endeavor, but never in so much detail. Fortunately the typical clientele for cruise ships (I've been on several now that we live in east central Florida.) is nothing but producers and their families. With the exception of Carnival, the cruise ship industry is remarkably well run. I'll gladly be in charge of biofouling control. Biofouling on the outside of cruise ships can as much as halve the profits.

Bunch of folks tried that back around the same time as the failed "Minerva" project. Probably about 1972. They actually built a concrete boat at Saugerties-on-Hudson. The plan was to sail around hither and thither, never being in port long enough to be taxed. From what I remember hearing, it sank on launch. Probably still there, a hazard to navigation. King Neptune collects his taxes.

Going to sea is not for the timid or the foolhardy. It requires a special kind of faith, one based in careful trust. There will be incredibly scary times, and to weather them one must trust the vessel and trust the captain. If you cannot do those things you have only two other choices:
1. If you think you can do better than the skipper, attempt mutiny.
2. Otherwise, jump overboard.

Your time at sea must be productive. In port your business is trading. At sea your business is to stay alive to get to the next port and perhaps to catch fish.

The floating Galt's Gulch Cruise Ship would need to be marketed and run professionally as any other cruise ship. Recent news stories indicate how difficult that can be. Do it on a lark, rather than as a well-planned business, and your money and the ship are gone.

I agree with everything you said but things won't change by "hunkering down." It will take participation in opposing the current situation(s). You cannot win as a spectator, but must get into the arena and fight. But don't misunderstand me. It won't take violence, at least not yet. That will only happen with the need for self-defense. There are easy to find movements afoot to stem the slide into fascism. Too late for an old fart like me, The best I can do is wield a keyboard. But being an observer is no longer an option.

Unfortunately I cannot agree.

The US has already turned the corner. If I earned as much as I used to earn, 60% of it would go to the fed and California taxes. So I choose not to.

Regarding suppression of science, this is already happening WRT any scientific findings that contradict the Religion of Man-made Global Warming, err Climate Change.

I see very few signs of meaningful reversal in the future. So, hunker down and survive until things change. Or not.

I would give you two points if I could. One for your pain and one because you are french. (Hubba-hubba!)

Sorry to hear you've been forced to that point.

I'm French.
It is THIS BAD. And even worse.
Welcome in Hell.
I'm personally in the "I won't give you my brains" phase. I do what I'm told. That's all. I won't help you out of your mess. Use your brains, for once, I won't do it for you.

UK Brain Drain;
French Mentation Migration


Jan

It certainly is the direction the US is moving. Thank you public schools for promoting entitlemen thinkingt. Years ago, during Clinton, Britain warned the US to NOT implement outcome based education, they said it produced a "brain drain" in their country. Clinton went full steam ahead with this per-Common Core, socialist program. Now look where we are, with youth disdaining producers.

This is old news. To be expected.

At 2:51 in the movie, it shows a newspaper with a February 17, 2014 date on it.

Comments on the vid were over the past week.
Maybe more au courant than one would infer?

it reminded me of what happened about forty years ago in Britain. Wage controls and crap like that, engineers discovered they could emigrate to the US and get LOTS more pay.

They called it the UK Brain Drain.

History, if it doesn't repeat, rhymes.

Wow. I'd heard things were bad in France but I didn't realize it was THIS bad.

Thanks for the link.