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When are people finally going to realize that Obama is hurting this country on purpose. It's all part of "Leveling the playing field" as he likes to say.
Actually As A Canadian I hope Obama gets a second Term since He has a great on going realtionship With our Current Conservative Govronment and Both ouR countries are working on increasing Can/US Security from external threats and working on Better, Faster, Easier and more secure trade between each other at the border with the SPP deal.
We Got alot of on going Trade Deals that Benfit and are good for both our Countires and if the Rebpulicans win they are all up in the air.
Right now the Can/US( Harper and Obama years) have made our Coutries friendship and Realtionship rate at an at a all time high and things are very positive on each other.. After they became rather strained during the Bush and Jean Chretien years of the Ealry-Mid-00's..
Seeing as Harper and Obama Get along Quite Well and and both Current Govronments agree on alot of international and Domestic Issues we both face in this Economy and well lets just say Jean Chretien and G.W. Bush Jr. years were not that close at all Comapred to Obama and Harper.
Smaller government, less intrusive government, less taxes, a robust, domestic energy plan...all things obama has NOT done and look at the difference between the two nations.
Canada is booming because they have stronger bank regulations, the democrat equivalents who ran the place for a long time were very frugal and they have a TON OF OIL. The latter being the reason for their boom.
Please don't talk about things that you don't understand.
Honestly I see Canada becoming more German like in its Society and Economy. It's a small country and very homogeneous which lends its self to the German model.
About 25% of the country is ethnically and linguistically French and there are also sizable Native and Asian minorities as well, plus strong regional identities as well.
Canada is booming because they have stronger bank regulations, the democrat equivalents who ran the place for a long time were very frugal and they have a TON OF OIL. The latter being the reason for their boom.
Please don't talk about things that you don't understand.
Better way to think of it is different regulations. Canadian banks are able to do a lot of things that American banks aren't able to do. Such as provide insurance. Also, credit unions play a much bigger role in Canadian finance than American finance.
Smaller government, less intrusive government, less taxes, a robust, domestic energy plan...all things obama has NOT done and look at the difference between the two nations.
Canada weathered the financial meltdown and global recession quite well, under conservative leadership, whereas the situation in the US, under the liberal obama UNleadership, has gotten demonstrably worse.
That must be why so many in Canada head to the US for treatment, elective surgery, preventative testing AND life saving treatment.
I mean, who wants to wait six months for an MRI while a cancer spreads?
Funny you mention that - my 3 month PET scan was cancelled by my insurance company following treatment for cancer. Now I need to wait until February to get the scan. The risk for recurrence is greatest in the first year so protocol states that you get scanned every 3 months for the first year or two, then slowly drop down to nothing after 5 years.
So yes, you get denied coverage in the US as well. My cancer could very well spread because I cannot afford the $15000+ scan out of pocket.
Better way to think of it is different regulations. Canadian banks are able to do a lot of things that American banks aren't able to do. Such as provide insurance. Also, credit unions play a much bigger role in Canadian finance than American finance.
No, sorry, the better way to think of it is that they were restricted from giving very risky loans. People couldn't state income, had actual downpayments, etc. You also can't write off your mortgage interest against your income. Canada didn't have a housing bubble of anything near what the US has seen. To boot, the primary resource sector is booming.
The funny thing is that the right winger who created this garbage thread might also want to consider that Canada has socialized medicine and more social programs in general. It also subsidizes education more than is done in the United States. Basically, they largely do EXACTLY the OPPOSITE of what the REPUBLICANS push when it comes to healthcare, real estate, the financial industry and, more recently, national defense.
It's sort of pathetic to see these partisan whiners open their mouth about things they don't understand.
No, sorry, the better way to think of it is that they were restricted from giving very risky loans. People couldn't state income, had actual downpayments, etc. You also can't write off your mortgage interest against your income. Canada didn't have a housing bubble of anything near what the US has seen. To boot, the primary resource sector is booming.
The funny thing is that the right winger who created this garbage thread might also want to consider that Canada has socialized medicine and more social programs in general. It also subsidizes education more than is done in the United States. Basically, they largely do EXACTLY the OPPOSITE of what the REPUBLICANS push when it comes to healthcare, real estate, the financial industry and, more recently, national defense.
It's sort of pathetic to see these partisan whiners open their mouth about things they don't understand.
More nonsense. As I posted above you have as many if not more social welfare programs, covering people who aren't even citizens in some cases, than Canada does.
You have had Medicare and Medicaid and now your mandated health insurance program modeled after the Romney one in Mass. We do not provide schooling for illegals or their children.
We don't have food stamps, sponsored cel-phone programs etc., running in conjunction with other types of welfare. I also stated that we in no way even consider that the purchase of a home should be mandated by government decree for those who couldn't afford it.
You don't look far enough into ALL the things provided by your government down there before sticking with that 1960's McCarthy mantra of Canada's a socialist/communist country.
We DAMN SURE don't authorize the indefinite detention of our citizens without due process under law as does that regime below us.
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