samuel
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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:23 pm
[QUOTE BY= iluvfreebeer] I rarely comment on Canadian politics. They are as relevant to most Americans as the tide tables of Malta. But the anti-American rhetoric oozing over our northern border over the past year has become almost audible. <br />
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Other than the fact that, by the grace of God, it shares a border with the USA - how is Canada relevant in the 21st century? <br />
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Canadians are, for the most part, shrill loudmouths who yelp like a Chihuahua,(though more effeminate, and less effectual) - but what is the purpose of Canada? Why should we pay any attention to Canada, let alone allow it to exist as a sovereign (almost, Hi Queeny!) nation?<br />
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It's exports as a percentage of GDP rank it with such socialist power centers as Iceland, Sweden & Denmark. It lags far behind the leaders like Japan, USA and even Poland. That means it's population has a pathetic, flaccid ability to consume the maple syrup, oil and lumber it produces. <br />
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It's inward investment ranks it with Finland, Portugal and Belgium.<br />
Canada's GDP is just 8% of the USA. Despite it's pathetic size, the growth rate of Canada's GDP lags far behind that of such cheap labor dumps as Ireland and Mexico - and even falls behind that of the great economic power of Turkey.<br />
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Canada's military is virtually extinct and would have difficulty fighting off an invasion of agitated Rotarians. True, Canadian warriors have served proudly in Afghanistan. But their government lacked the brains or testosterone to get on the right side of killing terrorists in Iraq and sent a piddling amount of troops (although those Canadians there have proven themselves to be top notch.)<br />
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Canada has produced a whopping 10 Nobel laureates, compared to 279 Americans. <br />
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Canada has socialized it's medical system and forced many of it's citizens to go to the USA for treatment, lest they die in the waiting rooms of Toronto or Montreal. They have spit on it's citizens' rights to self defense and to be armed. They have taxed the poor citizenry to a horribly oppressive point, without even providing good services for the money.<br />
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This is not an attack on individual Canadians. It is a question of why your neighbors to the south would ever care what anti-American leftists or part-time allies think about US politics.<br />
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To paraphrase Ann Coulter - Canada exists through the good graces of America and for our personal amusement.<br />
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Now shut up and milk the trees and pump the oil.[/QUOTE]<br />
After reading the <a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2089.htm">official relevancy</a> Canada has to the USA and reading joe-six-pack's irrelevant comments in this thread, you start to understand why Dubya is still in office.