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Old 03-08-2009, 04:30 PM  
Splum
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What do any of those things have to do with helping the people? Shouldn't the "richest most powerful" country provide and give back to the people that make it what it is?
Yes we do its called capitalism, if you work and succeed within that system you become wealthy, the keyword being WORK.

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Down there, things like social health care = communism.
No usually social health care is called "Socialism" otherwise it would be called "party health care" or "motherland health care".

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Canada may not be all big and bad like our neighbours to the south, but neither do we have people turned away from hospitals because they don't have health care
You cannot be denied emergency medical services in the United States, whoever told you that is wrong. Stop watching Michael Moore movies they are inaccurate hyperbole.

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We don't have even a 10th of the issues that people in the US are facing as things collapse. I'd say that makes it a pretty successful nation that will weather the economic storm far better than the big bad boys with the shiny guns and monster bank loans.
You dont have a tenth of the population we do either. You would be surprised how many problems you really do and WILL have during this crisis.

Last edited by Splum; 03-08-2009 at 04:31 PM..
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