But Boortz is living in Naples, FL now. Costa Rica is certainly on my radar screen as a possible exit plan, too. For now, parts of Florida are good enough of an exit plan. If the winds are < 150 mph, everything built here since 1998 will be fine. If that happens, I am taking the insurance money and following through on the exit plan.

Got mine. It's pretty much like my zombie plan, with fewer axes and shotguns.

Grab both leads, one in the right hand, the other in the left. You will be a firm believer...if you survive.

Move to Dixon. All the cops from Vacaville, Fairfield and Davis live here.

You are so right to note the impending depression. History does repeat, and we are poised for a societal depression due to our economic status.

Yes! Thank-you for noticing that angle.

The lead will take to you Drudge's twitter account. There is more than one tweet posted by him there. He mentions Fonda in a tweet. The tweet we are discussing here is the one about having an exit plan.

You should pm davidkachel. He lived in Peru for several decades and knows more about the government structure than I do. He has first hand knowledge of what happens to expats when a state of emergency is declared.

It would be easy to say that the very word "Twitter" strongly implies frivolity and banality, and anything said on that channel should be dismissed as unimportant. Yet this might be another word that the progressives have co-opted, so it's more important to consider who said it, as your question suggests.

My first question about this tweet related to the context: was he talking about "love, war, or business"? Did he mean he is selling his online operation? Is he talking about my preparedness for SHTF? And is he addressing only those who follow Twitter? Yeah, I seem to have more questions than answers at this point. Right now I am taking what he said as nothing more than "generally good advice" (which it is, IMO).

My friend also suggested Peru. He visits there regularly and loves it. I asked about the stories I had heard of violence there and he claims it is not the case anymore.

I live in the Sacramento region and let me tell you...it isn't very safe here either.

I asked this question of myself years ago in a slightly different form. Looking around for the things I want in a nation considering my freedoms and rights first. Fundamentally the US still is the place to be. The question among most people in a bad situation is to change the situation by fighting it (rebels in Syria) or leave. What we've got is still better than the rest which is why first generation immigrants still come to the US and do quite well. You do not hear about people emigrating to China. I know an old college dormmate who moved to Australia but that was significantly in part due to his wife being an Aussie. This decision is a tough and personal one, I admire the immigrants who come here and make something of themselves from nothing. If I went somewhere I would want to do the same, but I would want to make sure I wasn't walking away from a fight I could win with better results than what I'd get by walking to somewhere new. Opportunity cost I guess is one way of saying it. We still have elections here without rebellion and genocide, our corruption levels in the day to day levels of in your face government are low as you can actually trust most police to be resistant to bribery, and you can still create a successful business. Remember Ayn Rand's Father's pharmacy business was stolen by the state, the Bolsheviks killed the other communists to secure their control. If the most we are dealing with at the moment is two disfunctional parties who call each other names then we don't have a completely bad situation. ... However ... planning ahead ... with exit in mind is a good exercise. While most plans can be worthless when the action starts, the exercise of having planned is not. There used to be a website called www.freebooter.com that in the pre 9/11 days was pretty useful but due to the concerns of the surveillance state was 'nerfed' a relatively quickly. The fundamentals are the same though, know the law where you go and obey the law, don't be a peacock as that gets both good and bad attention for you-blend in instead, consider a legal name change/adoption of name that is either a local translation of your name or the equivalent of John Smith for your destination of choice as your paperwork will not stand out and be 'unnecessarily delayed' for intimidation and graft purposes, investigate how to make a useful amount of your wealth portable. Find someone who does travel like what Abaco has done and talk with them about both the place and how to travel internationally in general. Then do some homework and travel internationally at least once hopefully to your destination of choice and look around and learn. Don't stay at a resort, see if you can stay local. Reading the history of western europe the safest and wealthiest persons were the international merchants who could mobilize their wealth and family away from conflict to freedom. That point is even in the fiction of the time and I point to the 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Dickens.

With respect to a "prepper's" mindset of bunkering down, if societal collapse occurs, keep in mind that what works in the 3rd world will work after a societal collapse. Anthropology taught me that location has alot to do with resource availability. Reading 'guns germs and steel' might be enlightening for societal collapse as well.

Exit planning is interesting, exciting, and educational. Do it ahead as a mental experiment and decide if you wish to carry forward with it. But if what you've got is better than anywhere you figure you can land, I think you should keep fighting. I'm not saying fleeing for The Gulch is bad, but like Dagney, you've got to fight to a point, just learn where and when that point is ahead of time before you are a steamrolled statistic instead of an emigrant.

Actually, hurricanes can hit the coast and more, with the help of HAMP, which the Prez was tinkering with when the weather service distanced themselves from it completely, leaving only one agency, the military planes and the Prez to plan the deed. This man will do anything, and would love to be dictator, after which, the really big guys in one world order will snuff him likely, as he is stupid and expendable. The question is, how much harm will he bring to people in his quest to accomplish it. Boorz always said Costa Rica was his exit plan.

Yes. My family, 3 generations, has an exit plan. My husband is a Economist and I have to trust his area of expertise. He was a Professor and ran a business. He says we have crossed a line we won't come back from without going through very hard times. He does think Mark Levin is on the right path. I think younger people have changed and we have lost our culture. I will take my belief in hard work and earning what you have with me and live a life without CNN or FOX.

I love this.
How do you provide electricity?

The problem with both Equador and Peru are unstable govts and recent civil war histories.

I think Drudge means it. And, I think it is good advice. A gentleman I work with was raised in Ecuador and suggested, just a couple days ago, that I go visit. One of my neighbors spends most of her time in her second home in Panama. I see this as a time to consider diversifying with a second homestead elsewhere. It takes real money so it's a challenge for most.

I am working on it.

Time will tell, but I think you guys are nuts. If catastrophe strikes, something that injures or kills more people than car accidents, or a secondmajor scandal brings down the US govt as we know it, I'll eat crow. My opinion, though, is you're crazy to give some tweet a second thought.

Can you think of any more compelling reason to run away screaming than her or Jane Fonda showing up?

The Drudge Report is a highly influential news aggregate. Many stories break on this site. Lots of the news he collects and features on the site are early reporting of large breaking stories. He 's got lots of contacts out there and is very careful and judicious with words. Time will tell is right

Color me confused. What does babs have to do with this?

Isn't that tweet pretty much the same implicit message of Atlas Shrugged?

Your right. Natural disasters never happen. Hurricanes never hit the coastal regions. Earthquakes never hit the United States. I think Real Foot Lake in Tennessee was not formed what an eathquake hit so hard the Mississippi flowed backwards, rather it was where the Hulk hit when he fell out of that airplane. We have never seen a flood either. People who prepare for things like that really are nuts.

I am just pulling your leg, but seriously, there are a lot more reasons in having an exit plan that the fall of civilization, alien invasion, zombie apocalypse, or total crap hits the fan and Barbra Streisand puts on a concert in your area.

Many here know that I've aleady made my exit.

Those who don't can read about it here:

www.goinggaltinargentina.blogspot.com

Never mind...