<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Uncle Moneybags:
I hear arguments similar to this on 2 other boards I frequent and not just from Canadians. That leaves only 2 choices: 1. Take your medicine and complain here and elsewhere or 2. Do something about it like al-Sadr and his henchmen. If you choose the latter at least you could get some respect. Anytime there's something infuriating to this group I can expect the same diatribe over and over again. In fact, I'll probably hear about it later. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
You suggest that we take up arms and fight you guys?
From where I sit, I really only have a few tools at my disposal (shooting Americans is certainly not one of them.) 1. don't buy American, 2. don't vote for anyone who might embrace the 'hegemon' agenda, 3. bitch.
I've become quite good at #3 and, to a lesser extent, #2. I buy American all the time, tho, since, frankly, I love your shit.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>The problem with your P.O.V., xpanda, is that it assumes that there is a "good" government out there when there is not. That's one reason I consider myself an anarchist to some degree. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I agree with you. I am often too idealistic and hope that with proper intent, the world can move closer to my utopia. However, this does not absolve the US from saying one thing and doing another, which it does all the time. The US in many ways is the greatest country in the world ... I'm simply beyond sick and tired of hearing about this war on terror and I'm most certainly livid about the fact that the US is heading for all-out war in the ME and could give a shit about the people it's killing there. You don't need to be an idealist to feel that way.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Posted by bblight:
By the way - if I were a Canadian, I'd want the same thing, because if our economy shits the bed, then your economy will do the same - at best! I'm not trying to demean Canada when I say this, but our economies are so intertwined that, economically speaking, Canada is like a fifty first state. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Well, I try not to talk too much about the cost of the war in Iraq, and the debt that is being incurred, only because it cheapens my argument. But, since it's on the table now, I am also concerned that the US is accumulating too much debt and may end up collapsing as many economists are predicting. Or, the resulting debt will spell the end of your already meagre social programs, making it that much more difficult for us to hold onto ours (since we compare ourselves to the US, not Europe.) However, I still don't advocate killing in order to sustain our respective economies ... I'd like to think we are more creative than that.
I hear arguments similar to this on 2 other boards I frequent and not just from Canadians. That leaves only 2 choices: 1. Take your medicine and complain here and elsewhere or 2. Do something about it like al-Sadr and his henchmen. If you choose the latter at least you could get some respect. Anytime there's something infuriating to this group I can expect the same diatribe over and over again. In fact, I'll probably hear about it later. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
You suggest that we take up arms and fight you guys?
From where I sit, I really only have a few tools at my disposal (shooting Americans is certainly not one of them.) 1. don't buy American, 2. don't vote for anyone who might embrace the 'hegemon' agenda, 3. bitch.
I've become quite good at #3 and, to a lesser extent, #2. I buy American all the time, tho, since, frankly, I love your shit.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>The problem with your P.O.V., xpanda, is that it assumes that there is a "good" government out there when there is not. That's one reason I consider myself an anarchist to some degree. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I agree with you. I am often too idealistic and hope that with proper intent, the world can move closer to my utopia. However, this does not absolve the US from saying one thing and doing another, which it does all the time. The US in many ways is the greatest country in the world ... I'm simply beyond sick and tired of hearing about this war on terror and I'm most certainly livid about the fact that the US is heading for all-out war in the ME and could give a shit about the people it's killing there. You don't need to be an idealist to feel that way.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Posted by bblight:
By the way - if I were a Canadian, I'd want the same thing, because if our economy shits the bed, then your economy will do the same - at best! I'm not trying to demean Canada when I say this, but our economies are so intertwined that, economically speaking, Canada is like a fifty first state. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Well, I try not to talk too much about the cost of the war in Iraq, and the debt that is being incurred, only because it cheapens my argument. But, since it's on the table now, I am also concerned that the US is accumulating too much debt and may end up collapsing as many economists are predicting. Or, the resulting debt will spell the end of your already meagre social programs, making it that much more difficult for us to hold onto ours (since we compare ourselves to the US, not Europe.) However, I still don't advocate killing in order to sustain our respective economies ... I'd like to think we are more creative than that.
