Something about Canadians for Pheonyx

[Todd]

Todd Mo offence but as a Canadian(You are Canadian right) why are you so concerned with bashing american politics?
Do you worry about Canadian Politics?

Why not post some thing about Canadians?

Our government sucks.

Our medical system sucks.

Our social services suck.

Our Army sucks.

Our Navy Sucks.

Our Air Force sucks.

Our Economy sucks.

We will be part of the USA within 10-20 years I am just trying to merely accept that fact and get used to it.

 

[Phoenyx]

The hell we will.

 

[Todd]

The hell we will.

Accept it, it will be less painfull that way

 

[Phoenyx]

Noit bloody likely.
The only way Canada would become part of the US is by an invasion and the Us would never do that.

 

[Todd]

Noit bloody likely.
The only way Canada would become part of the US is by an invasion and the Us would never do that.

We ain't got anything to gain by remaining independant and everything to lose. How much lower do you want our dollar to go?

 

[Phoenyx]

We ain't got anything to gain by remaining independant and everything to lose. How much lower do you want our dollar to go?

SO you recomend bending over and letting the US take us anyway they want? SO the dollar is low. It will rise eventualy.
There was a time the canadian dollar was worth more than the US.

 

[Todd]

ALMOST HALF of Canadians believe it is highly likely Canada will join the United States within ten years. That’s what an opinion poll, released on June 3 by EKOS Research Associates, a Canadian polling and research firm, tells us.

This isn’t really big news. It simply means that almost half of Canadians are willing to reconcile themselves with reality. Let’s face it: globalization is the way of the future. It can’t be stopped. That means that Canada’s destiny – being absorbed into the American empire -- is much closer than we think. As a Canadian, I can hardly wait.

I must admit: the supremacy of globalization and free trade fills me with an intoxicating sense of glee. After all, the victory of unrestrained international capitalism translates into market forces running unhindered in Canada, which, in turn, translates into a diminishment of Canadian "sovereignty" – that absurd joke that has imposed socialized health care, federal funding of bilingualism and multi-culturalism, and other intellectually-bankrupt policies, onto heavily-burdened Canadian taxpayers. Canadian governments will finally have to listen to the market, rather than to leftwing ideologues and elites, and shed the last remnants of the Canadian welfare state. And as multinational corporations gain power, and national barriers come tumbling down, the forces of deregulation and privatization will triumph, leaving Canadian socialism where it belongs – on the ash heap of history.

These developments will yield less government spending and low taxes, which will encourage stimulated savings and investment in the economy, which will mean more economic growth. More growth, meanwhile, will foster new jobs, products and factories, which, in turn, will lead to a better redistribution of wealth, as well as an increase in the standard of living for most Canadian citizens. And as government regulation will almost totally disappear, Canada will lose any ability to control incoming foreign investment. In this way, it will lose its ability to control its own economy – which is good. The pull to the south will become unstoppable.

The benefits of these developments will feed off of themselves. Just think about it: the Canadian government will no longer have an excuse to fund bilingualism, since the market, which reveals the preferences of people better than any government program can, will expose how economically irrational and unpopular it is. Canadian taxpayers will save millions of dollars. But it gets better: with the dismantling of official bilingualism, Quebec will finally come to terms with what it should have come to terms with long ago: it has no place in Canada. The good news, therefore, is that Quebec will finally separate. And good riddance.

And then, the good news really starts: with French Canada finally gone, English Canada will be blessed with losing its last pretence of possessing any unique characteristics whatsoever. With Quebec gone, English Canadians will no longer be able to say, "We’re not like those Americans," without someone else rejoining: "Oh? And how is that?" And there will be no answer, because there will be nothing to say. Canadian nationalists will finally have to admit the bitter truth: that Canadians are Americans in everything but name. The charade of how "we are different" will come to its long-awaited conclusion.

Finally Canadians will be able to free themselves from trying to be patriotic by insulting Americans. In this way, they will stop negatively stereotyping Americans -- a behavior which has always manifested a dark and ugly strain of hatred in the Canadian psyche. It is simply hilarious, in the most tragic sense, how Canadian nationalists have always prided themselves on their politically-correct tolerance and "multi-culturalism," while they have engaged in anti-Americanism -- a disposition, as sociologist Paul Hollander has demonstrated, that is directly related with racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism. In Canada, of course, it has always been legitimate to be a bigot, as long as it has involved hating Americans. We will soon be able to say goodbye to that pathological double-standard.

We will also be able to say goodbye to the endless smug complaining that many Canadians engage in about how "stupid" Americans are – since Americans do not know anything about us. The bottom line is that Americans in Los Angeles and New York City do not need to know anything about Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, nor about anything else Canadian. That’s because, no matter how much the truth hurts, it is still the truth: Canada is boring – always has been and always will be. Whenever I hear a Canadian mocking American ignorance about Canada, I always can’t help picturing some deadbeat loser and unaccomplished writer who keeps all of his works hidden in his desk, and has never published anything, but simultaneously sneers at the world for having never heard his name.

Just imagine all of the pain that we will spare ourselves once we join the United States. We will no longer have to victimize ourselves with those torturous and emotionally-excruciating conversations about Margaret Atwood and Pierre Berton, in which Canadian nationalists show their anti-American stripes by discussing novels that no human being outside of Canada has ever heard of, nor would ever read under sane circumstances. The celebration of mediocrity for the sake of defining ourselves as being "different" from "those Americans" will finally end.

Thus, with the end of Canada, Canadians will finally reconcile themselves to the fact that they have no separate identity, and that the identity that they think they have has actually been defined in negative opposition to Americans. We can finally stop telling ourselves who we are not, and start focusing on who we are: Americans. And when we do this, the Providential Godsend will be delivered: Canadians everywhere will be liberated from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, an entity that it takes masochism to tune into, and that wouldn’t survive five minutes if its life depended on the tastes and desires of Canadians themselves. We will finally face basic common sense: culture cannot be created artificially by tax payers’ money, and if there is not enough interest in a country to naturally keep a television or radio station afloat, than that country does not need a television or radio station.

The victory of globalization means the end of Canadian socialism. And the end of Canadian socialism means the end of Canada, because this nation is an artificial structure that is kept intact by nationalist and socialist elites who exploit their own citizens for the sake of keeping themselves in power. It’s time for the unrestrained forces of capitalism to prevail, so that we can finally abandon our pathetic fantasy of having a unique culture, let alone a unique anything. It’s time to become who we always were: Americans. Long live globalization.

 

[Todd]

SO you recomend bending over and letting the US take us anyway they want? SO the dollar is low. It will rise eventualy.
There was a time the canadian dollar was worth more than the US.

better to bend over willingly and lube while there is a chance either that be forced over in the corner of the parking lot and being taken forcedfully

yeah the dollar was at one time worth more than the amreican, roughly the year i was born in 1975

 

[Phoenyx]

If people give and say we suck then yeah they economy will do bad and suck. But if people try and do someting to help the country then things will get better.

You dont help a bad situation by abandoning it. you help it get betterby fighting for it.

 

[Todd]

If people give and say we suck then yeah they economy will do bad and suck. But if people try and do someting to help the country then things will get better.

You dont help a bad situation by abandoning it. you help it get betterby fighting for it.

there is nothing short of joining america or destroying america that would bring back the canadian economy.

we could cut, mine, strip, drill every resource in canada and sell it and we still wouldn't have a 1$ dollar.

In order to even keep the dollar from going lower the whole North American Free Trade agreement would have to be entirely rewritten.

We would have to have a massive restructing amongst our government. not just a simple changing of party leadership

 

[Phoenyx]

SO YOU SAYING YOU JUST WILLING TO GIVE UP AND NOT EVEN BOTHER?

 

[Todd]

SO YOU SAYING YOU JUST WILLING TO GIVE UP AND NOT EVEN BOTHER?

show me a solution that would in our lifetime fix our world status

 

[Phoenyx]

Buying more Canadian good, buying things made in canada. Supporting canadian movies and canadian artists.

Canada has a great system and breeds smart people. We just have to support them to keep them here.


I guess this is a topic you and I wont see eye to eye on.

 

[Todd]

Buying more Canadian good, buying things made in canada. Supporting canadian movies and canadian artists.

Canada has a great system and breeds smart people. We just have to support them to keep them here.


I guess this is a topic you and I wont see eye to eye on.

I try to do all that

the reat thing about supporting canadian actors and muscians and other celebs, is as soon as we have given them enough money, what do they do? Pack there bags and move to the States, funny how that works.

I agree we have a great system b8ut worldly it is so woefully inadquate.

and yes we breed smart people. soon as our lawyers, doctors and scientists get educated they take off satesdie where they know they will get paid thier value.

world wide we have the lowest minimum wage second only to that of sweat shop coutries.

We may not see eye to eye, but i hope we can continue with this, i am learning from you even if we disagree on the ends

 

[BlondGirl]

Todd,

I did not know you wanted to become an American so badly. Instead of waiting for the takeover, how about marrying one of us. If you will promise to fuck me daily and be employed and have a relationship with your toothbrush and behave yourself, then I'll slap an American citizenship on ya! Come on down. where I am at, you won't even have to buy that winter coat!

 

[Todd]

Todd,

I did not know you wanted to become an American so badly. Instead of waiting for the takeover, how about marrying one of us. If you will promise to fuck me daily and be employed and have a relationship with your toothbrush and behave yourself, then I'll slap an American citizenship on ya! Come on down. where I am at, you won't even have to buy that winter coat! [/QUOTE

will i still be allowed to vote libertarian

 

[Phoenyx]

If the govenrment wised up and there are rumours they are minimum wage is starting to rise. The government is slowly is starting to realize they have to pay quality to get quality..


One reason Canadian artists go south is cause noone pays attention to them here. If we did more would stay.

 

[BlondGirl]

will i still be allowed to vote libertarian

Ummm... I don't know. I live in a democrat county. I don't vote that way anymore, but I suppose that if I can vote for who I want then you can too.
So, after the JP "ceremony" will we head over to the post office to fill in your voter registration card?

 

[Kymberley]

Hmmm Toddums

Never figured you for a quitter. You do realize don't you that Americans would never give up. Let alone surrender their country to another country. I am quite surprised that you admire our system of government, yet post so many negative things about it constantly.

As an American Todd, you would be expected to fight for the right to keep America strong and to support her with all your might. Not sure the surrending the country to another one is a good way to start that fight.

However, should you wish to move to the United States, maybe you can find that woman you have been searching for.

Getting a work visa shouldn't be so hard.

Phoenyx, quite impressed with your sense of pride and love for your country. As an American, I can certainly understand such pride.

As for the Americans being the butt of your jokes in Canada Todd, enlighten us about your Canadian cultures, your brilliant Canadian minds, your natural Canadian treasures, your beautiful Canadian landmarks, your Canadian history, and most important, your Canadian love of country.

We as Americans would be more than willing to share these things with all the Canadians if they ever care to ask.

 

[Todd]

If the govenrment wised up and there are rumours they are minimum wage is starting to rise. The government is slowly is starting to realize they have to pay quality to get quality..


One reason Canadian artists go south is cause noone pays attention to them here. If we did more would stay.

I pay attention to canadian artist

I was even Chris cummings temp drummer for two weeks befiore he became famous and moved to Nashville and adopted a fake southern accent and then claimed that all the people from Norton/Sussex talked that way.

New brunswick got one of those minimum wage riases last year when Progressive Conservative Bernard Lord became premier a hole 25 cents an hour to 5.75$ to bad that cost of living only went up 92 cents an hour at the same time.

the horror stories i am seeing envelop right now in this town are ridiculous.

do you have Sobey's grocery stores in T-Dot?

 

[BlondGirl]

Pheonyx, is it true that Canadians are taxed at 60%? I have heard this and it seems unbelievable. But considering the number of Canadians we have down here within driving distance to Mexico, I have thought it must be true.

 

[Phoenyx]

Re: Hmmm Toddums

Phoenyx, quite impressed with your sense of pride and love for your country. As an American, I can certainly understand such pride.

I just dont beleive in giving up so easily on my country. It feeeds me, clothes me, shelters me, entertians me. It is my duty to do what I can to help it as well.

 

[Phoenyx]

Pheonyx, is it true that Canadians are taxed at 60%? I have heard this and it seems unbelievable. But considering the number of Canadians we have down here within driving distance to Mexico, I have thought it must be true.

Im no tax expert but 60% seems high. We do pay high taxes but a good accountant gets most of it back. The high taxes pay fo our medical system which may be slow and people have to wait for some treatments, no one is denied help when they need it.

the more you make the more you get taxed, but the government has been cutting income taxes alot lately and I am taking more money home on my paycheque al the time.

 

[Todd]

Re: Hmmm Toddums

I am quite surprised that you admire our system of government, yet post so many negative things about it constantly.

However, should you wish to move to the United States, maybe you can find that woman you have been searching for.

Getting a work visa shouldn't be so hard.

As for the Americans being the butt of your jokes in Canada Todd, enlighten us about your Canadian cultures, your brilliant Canadian minds, your natural Canadian treasures, your beautiful Canadian landmarks, your Canadian history, and most important, your Canadian love of country.

We as Americans would be more than willing to share these things with all the Canadians if they ever care to ask.

I admire the way the sytem keeps the ecomonmy alive and that people no matter the race can strive above thier surroundings and rise to the top. I do not admire the people in that system who like to play one race against the other inorder to rise to the top.

I may find a woman you never can tell.

Actually right now trying to get a greencard/visa so i can do some work with my current boss has been quite difficult since the 9/11.

Actually on my written jokes thread youwill find, my jokes are based on Canadian themes or religious themes.

I could tell you about the beatutiful Bay of Fundy Prior to 1990 or the ruined Bay of Fundy since 1990 when the governemt thought it would be a good idea to go in and clear cute and make huge steel walking trails with the full support of the people Hades some even payed 1000$ to have their names plaqued on a half kilometer stretch of the butched Bay of Fundy.

 

[Todd]

Im no tax expert but 60% seems high. We do pay high taxes but a good accountant gets most of it back. The high taxes pay fo our medical system which may be slow and people have to wait for some treatments, no one is denied help when they need it.

the more you make the more you get taxed, but the government has been cutting income taxes alot lately and I am taking more money home on my paycheque al the time.

In low to low middle class the 5000$- 23,000$ range it is down to 43% once everything is said and done, you do bring up a ggod point they have been dropping in an effort to boost things. I remeber it at 59%. I think next year will get it down to 39-40% thats a good thing