Price Of Gasoline (Canada Vs USA)

"So: Canadians work less, those that have a job earn less, they keep less left after taxes, and yet must pay more for the very same items as Americans.

Yep. Seems to me that Canadians have a lower standard of living, eh?"

Not being able to comment must drive you nuts, eh? Accounts are still free.

Canadians are also not in the great-grand child crushing debt the Americans are in. Working less and take home pay are not indicators of 'standard of living'. Happy, healthy, content. Those are standards of living.

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The problem is that the per capita income is a poor measure to use because of the larger inequality of incomes in the United States. In fact, some researchers suggest that the use of those statistics have been highly inaccurate since about the 1970s.

A more accurate statistic is the median income but even that would have to be adjusted for things such as health care costs. For example, if Canadians pay on average 10 per cent less than Americans on health care because that is paid for by taxation that would equal out the disparity.

One estimate I saw put the total US debt at $161,287 per man, woman and child - or $645,148 per family of 4.

The US Empire has for a long time now been able to print money for free and exchange it for the oil that it controls world wide, that's what the current wars are all about, and Iran is supposed to be next in line for a take over. If the US military fails to control enough of the worlds oil supplies, its paper money will become worth the paper it's printed on.

Americans pay taxs too. It's just that their return on the (tax)dollar is less. The multi trillion dollars for the military alone, guarantees that. The invasion of other countries and overthrow of the perspective governments, is lucrative to only American BIG business. There is no benefit to those footing the bill and those corporations making money on these wars, pay less towards them. Medicare is owned and paid for by Canadians. In the US of A, a medicare system would be through a corporated system.

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Expect little from life and get more from it.

Canadians have been screwed around by their own and the multinationals forever.

Even when the Canadian dollar was .05 cents higher than the US, some 40 years ago, identical items in the Sears catalogues were much lower priced than in Canada.

I just wrote about it on the Tyee that around 1970 I was going to buy a down filled sleeping bag in Portland. Ore. for $29,US, when I noticed that it was made by Jones Tent and Awning in Vancouver, so I put it back on the shelf.

The company had a retail store on Water St. in Vancouver at the time, where the same sleeping bag was priced at $65.

I asked the sales people for the reason, wrote to the company, but never got any answer.

The problem is our chickenshit politicians of all parties and our so called "leaders", who dare not speak up against fraud, theft and crime even when it stares them in their faces, as it may offend our "greatest friends and trading partners and wealth creating investors"

Because "Canada was always rich in resources, but poor in working capital".....the biggest barefaced lie ever uttered by politicians and economists, who apparently haven't figured out the elementary business law that "when you have resources, you have capital", so we're getting stolen blind with the approval of our governing and opposition parties.

Ed Deak.

"The problem is our chickenshit politicians of all parties and our so called "leaders", who dare not speak up against fraud, theft and crime even when it stares them in their faces, as it may offend our "greatest friends and trading partners and wealth creating investors"

It's filling THEIR pockets and if not, their financial friends pockets. CANADIANS sell out. No one blinks an eye but blames the government. Canadians themselves will sell to the highest bidder with no qualms as to who the buyer is. Why should the government stop them. It would be bad business to.

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Expect little from life and get more from it.

Canadian oil is enabling the Iraq war and increasing American war debt.
I think it's time to cut 'em off. Can we have a referendum to decide on that?


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To whatever brain dead philistine thinks that living in Canada makes us second class to the US, take note:

We don't have to pawn off our family's future to get decent medical care.

You like the US so much, I'll hold the door open for you while you leave.

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