The primary reason we are in the Philippines is that my wife wanted to be closer to her grown sons as they married and formed their families. I've got 3 marvelous grandchildren (one of whom lives in our house with his parents -- at age 74, I'm getting an advanced course in early childhood development.
Real men stay and fight? Tell that to Ellis Wyatt, Richard Halley, John Galt, etc. Visit my website, "3w.caballahouse.myshopify.com" and take a look at my products, "Materni-t-Shirt" and "Modes-t-Gown". Those products will NEVER be on sale at Wal-Mart or Target, because I won't do business with those companies.
Most of the governments in Asia are so right-wing they'd consider Ayn Rand a redistributionist Bolshevik. Mainland China is abandoning Marxism in favor of a crudely thought out, inefficient mercantilism that is so dependent on consumer-goods export that the economic decline in the U.S. will sink its economy. The two most productive economies here are Thailand followed by the Philippines. The spirit of free enterprise definitely prevails in the Philippines.
As for running off and hiding: we didn't come here to "hide". We sold our house in New Jersey at the top of the market in late 2008, and came here for FAMILY reasons. All the bad things in the U.S. began happening after we got here. But I'll say it again: I'm a Jew, and I've read "Mein Kampf" from cover to cover. If I had been a German Jewish family head in 1926, I would have had my family and my money out of Germany by the end of 1927 -- five full years before the Nazi takeover. I may be more familiar with the nuts and bolts of a totalitarian takeover than you are -- and when the gates close, you won't have anything left to fight with. Feel free to contact me directly at any time at "davidlaibow1215[at]yahoo.com". Sincerely, Dave Laibow

Here in the Philippines, I am living a life wherein I exercise my OWN will and judgment, and I can watch my 4 grown sons and their wives building lives based on THEIR wills and judgments. I can be confident that my grandchildren will live lives in which they will have the opportunity to exercise THEIR wills and judgment, long after I'm gone. My Social Security and investment income couldn't a minimally decent life in New Jersey, but I have a life of modest comfort here in the Philippines. And I like the weather. As to the "real men" criteria -- what standard of being a "real man" do you want to use? The number of men I've killed with my own hands? The number whose deaths I've authorized? The death threats I've received for what I've expressed in my writing? The number of people who've threatened me that I've paid to put in wheelchairs in retaliation? I don't believe in political assassination, or symbolic gestures, but I sure do believe in personal retaliation. There's a lot more of Cuffy Meigs in me than you might expect, but that's last resort capacity. If you want to discuss what level of violence constitutes a "real man", feel free to contact me directly at "davidlaibow1215[at]yahoo.com" ... if you, David Kachel, are man enough to do so.

I certainly agree; we've left notes slipped under the door, and I've mentioned it (discreetly) to Johnnie Galt when I've seen him outdoors. He says that Dagny is in need of therapy but the closest person they have to a therapist is Ellis Wyatt, who practiced psychiatry in Vermont until he lost his license and went into the oil business. Speaking of shale oil, I have a DVD of a 1930s "Olsen and Johnson" movie, in which they find a pioneering shale oil business. If the Democrats take control of the House in 2014 (as I expect them to) that's the end of the shale oil business as private enterprise.