I agree.Am I the only one who see`s this.Get away from America.Why is our business community so stuck on the US.Look at the rest of the world.We do not even have to sale our oil to them,sell it to Japan & China.Build the tankers to ship it there,think of the jobs that would creat here!What is everbody afraid of?America?
Greed is blind and uncaring. As long as Canada's greediest see easy millions to be made by pushing our economy and society closer to the US they will do so. They care nothing about unemployment, poverty, homelessness, debt, war, torture, authoritarianism or militarism. That's all somebody else's fault and somebody else's problem. Canada means nothing to them; it's just another market to be exploited. Values are sentimental nonsense. They exist soley to gorge themselves and nothing else. Period.
During a prolonged and really serious downturn in the American economy, the super-dependent Canada they want to create for themselves would suffer terribly, but it would only be people like you and me who would feel it. The greed gang would just live off their years of glut, or take their huge gains and run. As for the rest .....well, there would still be lots of tear gas and riot squads, and maybe for the old and weakest among us, lots of new graves.
It doesn't have to be like that. We don't have to have a command economy, we don't have to be anti-American, we don't have to stop trading with our neighbours. All we need to do is show some backbone and common sense, and start looking out for all our people, not just the few who can never get enough. We should scrap NAFTA and make better trade deals both in the US and elsewhere. We should establish a made-in-Canada energy price, irregardless of provincial objections. We should globalize only where it make sense, and makes life better, not harder, for ordinary Canadians. We must end immigration aimed at creating an artificial labour surplus to supress wages. It only makes sense that if a doctor comes to Canada, he or she should work as a doctor, not a cab driver. Otherwise they should not come. Just do the right, sensible things. It's not rocket science, it won't lead to BMD.
Yes! Let's cut ourselves free! We might never be rich and powerful like the United States, but that's not going to happen anyway. We can be peaceful, reasonably prosperous and leave a truly exceptional country for our children. It won't be easy. But we've got to stop always looking to the US for salvation, blaming our failures on them or castigating ourselves for not being like them. To make it happen we need only to control our own greed community, and vastly diminish their influence on our governments. Better, more equitable government at home is the answer. The challenge is how to achieve it. That's where we are falling short as a nation.
Yes - very well stated - who is this person and how did they know what I was going to say?
Only one thing though - time might have already passed us by. There might not be enough time to divest ourselves of our close economic ties before the American collapse happens.
My Grandfather used to tell me about riding the rails during the Great Depression. Maybe we should all start learning how to hop onto a moving train...
Canada should not be immune to the collapse of the USA because we need to learn the exact same lessons they do with regard to greed and letting unscrupulous people take over where we do not want to look after our own responsibilities.
Perhaps collapse will give us the opportunity we need to change the way we do business and the way we elect our government officials. For me that cannot happen too soon. I do not believe Canadians will make changes without a disaster to wake them into action. Most of us do not even realize a disaster *is* waiting to happen. For those of us that do, my advice would be to simplify our lives to the point where we will be as secure as possible from any "disaster" fallout and standby with tissues as the greedy weep.
--- "Yeah, well, [Mr. President] we used all five fingers because that's the way our mittens are made." Antonia Zerbisias
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During a prolonged and really serious downturn in the American economy, the super-dependent Canada they want to create for themselves would suffer terribly, but it would only be people like you and me who would feel it. The greed gang would just live off their years of glut, or take their huge gains and run. As for the rest .....well, there would still be lots of tear gas and riot squads, and maybe for the old and weakest among us, lots of new graves.
It doesn't have to be like that. We don't have to have a command economy, we don't have to be anti-American, we don't have to stop trading with our neighbours. All we need to do is show some backbone and common sense, and start looking out for all our people, not just the few who can never get enough. We should scrap NAFTA and make better trade deals both in the US and elsewhere. We should establish a made-in-Canada energy price, irregardless of provincial objections. We should globalize only where it make sense, and makes life better, not harder, for ordinary Canadians. We must end immigration aimed at creating an artificial labour surplus to supress wages. It only makes sense that if a doctor comes to Canada, he or she should work as a doctor, not a cab driver. Otherwise they should not come. Just do the right, sensible things. It's not rocket science, it won't lead to BMD.
Yes! Let's cut ourselves free! We might never be rich and powerful like the United States, but that's not going to happen anyway. We can be peaceful, reasonably prosperous and leave a truly exceptional country for our children. It won't be easy. But we've got to stop always looking to the US for salvation, blaming our failures on them or castigating ourselves for not being like them. To make it happen we need only to control our own greed community, and vastly diminish their influence on our governments. Better, more equitable government at home is the answer. The challenge is how to achieve it. That's where we are falling short as a nation.
Only one thing though - time might have already passed us by. There might not be enough time to divest ourselves of our close economic ties before the American collapse happens.
My Grandfather used to tell me about riding the rails during the Great Depression. Maybe we should all start learning how to hop onto a moving train...
Perhaps collapse will give us the opportunity we need to change the way we do business and the way we elect our government officials. For me that cannot happen too soon. I do not believe Canadians will make changes without a disaster to wake them into action. Most of us do not even realize a disaster *is* waiting to happen. For those of us that do, my advice would be to simplify our lives to the point where we will be as secure as possible from any "disaster" fallout and standby with tissues as the greedy weep.
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"Yeah, well, [Mr. President] we used all five fingers because that's the way our mittens are made." Antonia Zerbisias