Pay your taxes on your local income. It avoids confrontation with your government. Keep at least twenty percent of your net assets beyond reach of your local government. To ensure that your local government is unaware of your policy, hold those assets in name of a tax haven corporation. Learn a portable skill that allows you to earn money, without licenses, permits or a permanent place of business. Encourage your family members to do it. A common portable skill for people from English speaking countries is teaching English. However, computer skills, medical skills, musical or art talent and loads of other crafts and trades can serve you well. Signup for an evening class at your local Junior College. Having a skill that is in demand beyond your borders ensures that you can make money anywhere in world.

The only certainty is change. Always have a plan that will allow you to move your assets to another country. Read national news and watch your government's policies. There are always signs of pending political change. At first indication that your government is moving toward war, revolution or other acts that are unhealthy for everyone, start process of moving your wealth offshore. If you need help with your move, there are always honest offshore services that will assist you in your effort to survive. Develop a relationship with one of these services now.

Avoid stupidity. Investigate your offshore options before you act. Read and listen to advice. Avoid major legal and accounting firms or at least their offices in your country. Seek more than just tools that will allow you to spread your wealth and reduce your risks. Develop relationships with firms that can help you use those tools and will teach you how to use them.

Your survival and that of your family lies in asking yourself right questions now. The way forward is in taking control of your future. If you seriously question my advice, take your next vacation to a refugee camp. The residents are those good middle class people who feared uncertainty of change and unknowingly accepted certainty of misery.

About Author: William Cate has offered Globalize to Survive Workshop for over a decade to middle-class investors in many countries. He's Executive Director of Global Village Investment Club [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]. Since 1982, he's been Managing Director of Beowulf Investments [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/]

"Further, if we even suspect that YOU might be doing bad things to US, then we might haul you away in middle on night and hold you, without charges, for as long as we feel like it and you can't talk to a lawyer because YOU might be a terrorist and terrorists don't have any rights".

It goes on to say...

"In an attempt to avoid accidentally confusing Patriotic Americans with Unpatriotic Americans, we're going to appoint a neutral third party, FBI, to monitor your e-mail, medical records, library accounts, video store rentals, internet activity, land line and cell phone conversations, bank and credit card records, and whatever hell else we think is appropriate, all without probable cause. And, if you complain about it, then YOU must have something to be afraid of and that "something" just might be that you're unpatriotic".

So, there you go. Just print out this article, add "I Agree" and sign it so you too can be a Patriotic American.

However, if you REALLY want to be a Patriotic American then you should also join Army and go to Iran so you can help liberate their citizens from a repressive regime that monitored and controlled their every movement, hauled their citizens away in middle of night without charges, and held them for as long as they wanted. But then, there I go digressing again.