by James Hickman
Schiff Sovereign
At some point early in 2011, I received a frantic phone call from a woman who was terrified that then-President Obama was going to “close the borders”.
She had apparently been reading some pretty dark forums on the Internet which had convinced her that Obama was going to prevent all US citizens from leaving the country… and she was intent on getting out of the country before that happened.
I spent the first part of our call trying to disabuse her of the rumor. While I acknowledge that anything is possible, I’m also a data-driven person… and there was simply zero credible evidence to suggest that President Obama was going to restrict all traffic into and out of the United States.
But, still, she wouldn’t listen. So I asked her what she wanted to do. She told me that she intended to pick up her entire life and move to Uruguay within the next 48 hours.