Au contraire, I quit my full-time job (and became a part-time contractor),
in some part because I thought it WAS the patriotic thing to do.
To wit, seeing the kind of monster the government of my nation was
becoming in the world, it seemed like a good thing to reduce the amount
of money I was providing to the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld war machine
through my tax dollar.
To me, being patriotic does not mean supporting my government right
or wrong, it means supporting the ideals of our nation, as embodied in
the US Constitution etc.
Sorry to be self-righteous: I will not pretend that my primary motives
for retiring were not mostly selfish, but this side-effect certainly felt
like a good thing.
Yes, I've hijacked this thread into overtly political opinionating, but
it probably didn't belong in "FIRE and Money" in the first place ...
