This is pretty stupid

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CoffeyCan

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Ahhh so the US is going to fall, but Canada never will, eh? Thats specious reasoning.

Please dont pigeonhole Americans, I know plenty of groups of yanks that are great people and as nice as an Candians, Africans, Europeans, Brits, blah blah blah. People are individuals some act like assess, others are some of the best people I have ever met, you cant say that when all yanks get in groups they are idiots.
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MiscMan

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Well, Bad.Mojo, you're right. Nothing lasts forever. But i would be surprised if the US went away in my lifetime, though i can expect that the Euro's will pass us by in the near future of 10 or 20 years. Possibly Japan might, but i doubt it being as they are dependent almost completely on other countries.

About US policy, it seems that most of them have such obvious loopholes that they no longer restrict anything . They simply make things much more expensive. Also, even though the US has the right to take accounts, it might not be that easy to say to Suddam that we have all his money cause he bought a cigar. Not quite so easy.

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Bad.Mojo

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Well, no, I can't say that all Americans, in groups, are general arses. Though I've seen about 9 out of 10 American groups generally act misinformed on ALOT of world stuff, and somehow that misinformation manages to put them on top of everything. A foreigner can't help but stand, slack-jawed, at all the stuff that comes out of their mouth that's just plain wrong. It's half shocking, half sad. But that's just what happens when your government is one huge economy swelling propaganda-machine. I'm not saying that's a BAD thing or anything, because one thing Americans have for it is balls... surprisingly huge, enormous, almost elephantine balls, and that's usually what gets them into a lotta crap.

I really doubt Canada will fall for a long time though, because there's two things about it that secure its future. One: Technology. We're a highly industrialized country. We have the best communications and nuclear technology systems in the world. Two: We're an Outback. 29 million people living in the second largest country in the world. We're lucky to have both of those factors going for us. Technology breeds destruction and self-assurance, and isolation breeds poverty. However, coupled together, they are an insanely powerful force. They ensure healthy, safe futures, coupled with an abundant supply of natural resources. Both of these contribute to a low crime rate, low cost of living, low price on goods and services, as well as a fairly abundant source of jobs. It means more resources have to go to fewer people, which also means that the technology can be shared more readily (as seen in the free health care system that any Canadian knows and loves.) And, in case we ever get in trouble, we're scrappers. We may not have the biggest army, but we can kick some serious ass. If you go over Canadian victories in previous wars, we've got some major big, bad boys to fight for us and some pretty hefty accomplishements. I'm not claiming superiority or anything, I'm just pointing out that we're all fairly clean and happy up here, everybody knows everybody else, we don't make trouble, and if anybody ever starts trouble we have big meaty lumberjacks and hockey players with rifles backing up the good guys. Its nice. Its nothing special, but its definitely quiant.

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Ya, actually i wouldn't moving to Canada. The only prob with socialized medicine is that you dont always get the best medication like in the states, though they may cost 4 times as much. Though it is sad that all peoples become nations, and all nations become burueacracies.

One thing that has been getting at me for a little while was that people think that things are simple. In people i mean the general, non-voting, uninformed public that gets the media it's money and takes away peoples lives everyday. It seems that people would much rather read about how we use high-tech things from 15 years ago instead of acting toward progression so that we may be able to end much suffering. But, shit happens, and it happens a lot. It only takes one individual, not person, a person is just a nameless, faceless, voiceless statistic to anyone who isn't. But an individual can change everything for millions and billions, and our actions will affect future trillions if we dont kill ourselves first.

Sometimes it scares me that my life is in the hands of a large few.

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Bad.Mojo

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Its generally true that socialized medicine is limited by government budget, but we still have the luxury of PAYING for the medication, as well. In that case, most of it is covered by the government (depending on the severity of the thingy that its treating.) Which is nice, because then rich people get to live, and poor people get to die (see? we still have some capitalism left in us yet...)

Of course, medical treatment is nothing without doctors, and thankfully the U.S. and Canada combined have some wonderful doctors. You'll frequently read about the countries swapping patients, because some specialists are here, some are there, but they're always within flying distance. That's one thing that I love about North America. This disgusting symbiotic relationship the U.S. and Canada have with each other is sickeningly perfect, as much as I hate to admit it. Neither of us could survive without the other. We provide you with some heavy communications technology (hell, we've been doing that since Bell and the telephone and Marconi and the telegraph) and share our resources, as well as our (seemingly natural-born) technical talent, and you give us lots and lots of money.

Everybody wins.

Except Elian.

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Bad.Mojo

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Hurray for frivolous law suits.

Everytime I hear about some stupid bitch that spilled coffee on herself and then sued because the coffee was hot (as opposed to the cold or tepid coffee somebody would normally order) I feel the need to kill something very, very strongly.

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God I love message boards....

Just got done scanning all these messages...
Elian "abduction">>>Spilled coffee.
Now _there's_ an obvious topic connection.
heh..
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MiscMan

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Hmm, just realised somethin. I said i wouldn't mind moving to canada. Freudian slip? Maybe.


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****ing kid

I feel bad for that kid, maybe he should have drowned in that boating accident, save him the lifetime of mass media in his face

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Hey, frivolous lawsuits that actually win aren't so bad when you think about it, sure a selected few get f*cked over, but maybe then people will hear about them and realize "hey, a JUDGE in the US ruled that some f*cking moron should get money for falling through some guy's skylight regardless of the fact that he was breaking and entering... maybe I should stop trusting everyone with a higher position in the system just because they have a badge/robe/podium big enough to hide a prostitute inside so they can get a bj while their lying to their citizens... I mean it is nice to be like everyone else and want my government to do everything for me and tell me what to do and think, but now I guess they really don't do everything right, do they?"... the more scandalist/idiotic things about the system that get out into the public the better, I say.

(rant mode off... ahh, I love the off-topic forum)

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Bad.Mojo

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Ak: This is why its an off topic forum. I come in here, and everything goes off topic.

As for not trusting anybody, that's a good point. Just because somebody is in a position of authority does not mean they are inherently good, and its unfortunate that alot of people forget that. Judges, D.A.'s, Lawyers, and especially cops (41 shots? anybody else would have got a clear-cut case of Murder in the first) go about commiting crimes.

Sometimes its just sad. My favorite piece of garbage is when animals get destroyed for attacking somebody. The animal can't say "yiah, the kid was kicking me in the head over and over and over so I did what my instincts told me to do and fight back" so instead it gets gassed. This is, of course, after we usurp the animal's territory to build cities. If any stray animal walks around the city, we pick them up, jail them, give them a death sentence, and wonder if anybody will "adopt them" before it happens.

Wanna know how to cut down on homeless people? Have people drive around, pick up any homeless person they see. Lock them up. Wait six months before killing them. If somebody comes in and needs a servant, they can look over the bum's history and see if he's worth adopting. The bum gets a house to work and be productive in, and everybody's happy. And if nobody wants him, they can just sit him in the chair and fry him.

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