Originally posted by Gringo.Floripa Dissent will be quickly rounded up, and "quarantined".  It's a sad time in which we live GD, but my friends and family there, the ones who still have their blinders on, can't say they weren't warned.

I'm a super conspiracy theorist (because more than half the "conspiracies" turn out to be true.) The American media has those people so hyptnotized that they don't have any desire to express "dissent" in the first place. I think it's easier to win the lottery than expect Americans to to be able to see things from a long-time expat's point of view.

Why do you think they created this FACTA? It's to punish the 6 million+ American expats. J/k: this my be a *by-product* but the real aim is to have world banks under control of the US Government. Whether it works or not, I don't really care. My parents have already put my FBI document in the mail..... After I start my Brazilian paperwork, America will be a very distant concern for me.

Originally posted by spongebob Please somebody, post something!

I've just been waiting for GD to let us know how much money he  won (lost) at the casino last night....

Bob, I think it would be less hassle for you to hire 100 employees, than to become a forex broker in this country!  Plus, in spite of the regulations, I'm sure there's "questionable" clients one is always approached by.  You just might help the wrong one exchange some money for the wrong purpose or cause, and be caught up in a NDAA dragnet, citizen, or not.



Edited by Gringo.Floripa - 04 January 2012 at 17:50

Originally posted by spongebob please for the love of God, post something. Don't leave me as the last person commentating! I had an idea today -- I don't know if it's worth it -- but what if I created the first Brazilian domestic (and international) forex broker?? What do you guys think? I think it's a big headache, but it would help out this country a lot and specifically where I live because at the minimum, you must have people who speak English. Until now, this doesn't exist in Brazil. Please somebody, post something!

Okay, I’ll post something - just an opinion mind:

Why not employ your hitherto calculating/guessing/gambling talents to work on something productive and useful rather than the parasitical occupation of a wastrel; that of buying and selling currencies devoid of benefit to all but yourself?  Of all the slothful wastes of life, I can think of nothing worse for the mind and body than enduring the stress and loneliness of a gambler playing a notorious game without rules in a darkened room while wearing a blindfold. Adding to this you give the impression that you’re a petty-cash trader and therefore unlikely to have an opportunity to become wealthy, yet in the absence of ‘insider information’ you are susceptible as any of the big buck traders to associated stress illness and certainly closer to bankruptcy. There are better and more noble ways of making a living.  

Originally posted by Gringodude I don't know if I'm wrong or not here, but, Espirit, you are off your rocker! Unless you can account for economics, finance, and business in general, then you should realize it's all a sort of gamble; the capitalists are among us! Do you have any alternative suggestions? Because I hope you know that putting your efforts to a good cause, DOESN'T PAY VERY WELL....

Not having been involved in any ‘good causes’ that were likely or not to show a return I will take the benefit of your experience in this area as being true.

More to the point, and here you will have to use your imagination; of all the dark windowed limousines  you’ve seen waft by and behind the walled condominiums wherein stately homes stand proud, how many of the occupants would agree with you and your definition of the term, gambling? How many of the owners of the glittering Las Vegas casinos would agree with you that they are gambling? Or the employer, successful in his business, producing, benefiting society, growing wealth and prosperity; is he gambling or off his rocker? Answer me those riddles, grasshopper.   

You don't get to pick a side, be quiet!


The employer is engaged in a type of 'risk', the key term in either situation. A person who joy rides a few cocktails and throws a couple die is always taking risk. All of course being based on the financial dependence of maintaining a return or having appropriate control of your return/loss ratio. Sure a person managing a large pile of money can do good or bad, so what...

It's all risk...