I prefer this title to the op:
Man-Wielding Knife Apprehended in Pattaya
Probably just yet another knife high on cannabis rampaging through the countryside.
Can you prove him wrong?
Didn't think so.
Religion: people get it or they don't.
More and more of the civilized world is getting it though as secularism rises.
Especially your last one seems uncomfortably likely in the next few years.
I go with probabilities too and have been stacking metals for decades.
Just don't keep it all in one place.
I read that too but don't take anything for granted.
Hope for the best but plan for the worst.
I don't depend on my SS at all and instead keep assets in several countries, banks vaults, etc. I definitely don't keep most of it in America or USD.
Two excellent questions.
Through most of my adult life I assumed that I would never collect any social security benefits at all.
At 74 I have been drawing it for 7 years, and living here I seldom spend even half of it each month.
On the other hand, if the government in America turns Orange this year I thinks all bets on continued SS payments are off. Same for Medicare and Democracy.
As far as being able to stay here long term it's a daily crap shoot.
The world being the same as we know it over the next 30 years? :
Not a snowball's chance in hell of that.
He has a good point.
The IRS should stop collecting taxes because so many people cheat on them.
Thailand is way ahead of the curve on all this as they have many many laws on the books that they never attempt to enforce.
Congratulations! You are the first to offer a real drug name.
I'm copying the pix to send to my pharmacists. I have a long air trip in April to USA and I need something.
Thanks!
There are metric O-ring assortments sold on Lozada. I've used mine several times.
Just try buying them locally. Apparently they are considered space shuttle parts too.