http://online.wsj.com/articles/expats-left-frustrated-as-banks-cut-services-abroad-1410465182
Earlier this year, I discovered that my son could not get money from me anymore as American banks were stopping money exchanges. He has no financial support in England from family. Now, EU banks are doing the same, but American banks started this. Bank to bank transfers for ordinary people have ended.
What Americans do not understand is that America is becoming a financial prison while letting in people who have no money. Normal people and the wealthier, many who are good people, (I am not into the sin of envying the rich), are having restrictions on finances for the first time in history.
If readers do not understand what all this means, I can tell you. As two of my smart female friends and one of my male friends told me, America is becoming a prison state. If you are in America, your freedoms are being limited daily, and if you are out, living as an ex-pat, your freedoms are limited.
Great Britain did something similar years ago, not that long ago, btw, by changing immigration rules regarding Commonwealth members. Commonwealth citizens, long having excellent freedoms of residency based on history, had their rules changed as GB became more EU friendly and less Commonwealth friendly. Many people I know from New Zealand, Australia and Canada lost rights and had to follow EU regulations as GB changed "loyalties".
Why should you care, you may ask? As nation-states give up power to banks, the EU, and the UN, less and less movement and freedoms are allowed to individuals. People in Medieval times had more freedom of movement than we do now, and Renaissance financiers had more freedom than monied people now.
Americans have been too insular, not caring about relationships with Europe, as seen by our leaders in Washington, who have lost respect in Europe almost on purpose.
America is creating a prison. I am convinced that those in power do not want people to have freedom of movement or freedom of finances.
Think about this. You may not realize how this will affect your children, your grandchildren.
And, what is the most universal institution in the entire world? The one, holy, Catholic and apostolic Church.
A friend of mine in Australia told me that missionaries, like the Missionaries of Charity, are having a hard time getting in to set up ministries. The same thing has been happening in GB over the last three years. Ask those orders who have had to send priests, monks and nuns back to America without any chance of renewal of visas. St. Augustine of Canterbury would not get into GB unless Italy was in the EU.
Get it?
Who gets hurt?