Gas price in Canada versus U.S.

Well be sure not to get sick in the USA because it will cost you at least 50% more to get well there.

Nor is anyone stopping you from moving to any number of failed socialist states. That you haven't proves you're smarter than the average lefturd whiner.

snicker.

Harold Burton wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.newsguy.com:

I could almost accept the taxes IF they were used at they were intended, to fix roads and maintain infrastructure. Instead, they are used to subsidize welfare payments and jail costs for all the wonderful immigrants we have coming to Canada.

Harold Burton wrote

The USA was a failed socialist gulag well before Obama. It probably started with Reagan when he was buying unsold cheese from American dairy farmers and giving it away to the poor back in 1981. All on the US taxpayer's dime.

Calling yourself a capitalist doesn't make you one. The living standards in Scandinavian countries are far higher than in the USA, and they're not only capitalist, but socialist as well.

But fat ignoramuses like you think that the USA invented capitalism, when lately the most robust product produced appear to be right wing imbeciles like you who don't know the definition of either socialist or capitalist.

You just parrot what the right wing media tells you.

I guess you think that when the US taxpayer was being subsidized by Bush's borrowing from the Chinese that you lived in some kind of capitalist utopia.

"Whaay, wee don't need to pay taxes here! We just borrow the difference from the Chinese!"

Listen up boy, most of you don't have the first idea how capitalism even works. You sit around like imbeciles, blaming the government for all your problems, thinking "I listen to Rush, watch Fox News and Vote Republican, so I must be a capitalist!"

Snicker.

lab~rat >:-) wrote

Must be why Canadians (with their well regulated banking system) are buying up all the real estate in Red States Arizona and Florida because Americans can't get mortgages. Or why US businesses can't get loans for their inventories either.

Better blame Obama for what Bush did. That's the cure for all things in the "capitalist" USA! Point fingers and whine!

lol!

Thank Conservatives for the GST. Thank Conservatives for incrementing federal excise taxes on fuel from 2.5c liter to 10c a liter.

Damned socialists.

There is nothing socialist in them. They need the money to pay for G8/ G20 meetings, bailing out GM, buying F-35 jets, continuing operations in Afghanistan and so on. The funny thing is that the Americans do all these things as well and still have gas prices that are half of ours. Hugo Chavez is a socialist, not Stephen Harper. All our Conservative governments were the biggest tax grabbers. Remember Mulroney with his two "surtaxes"?

B.S. The majority of the taxes (it's on all the pumps) go to the provinces =3D LIBERALS.

Nice troll here, Rich, with a good mix of newsgroups. Although, I have to say that pitting liberals and conservatives against each other is far too easy. You need more of a challenge.

dwight

But you won't have to wait until after you are dead to see a doctor.... especially if you are in a high risk group.... like old, etc. If you don't think that is the case, then you apparently do not know how many Canadians, Dutch, Swedes, etc, travel to the USA for medical treatment. I know quite a number of them who have taken up permanent residence here, and citizenship, and say they would never go back to their native lands.

Boy does that sound familiar.

And there are lots of Americans who have moved to Central America and would never go back to their native land. All it proves is that the people who MOVE had some reason for it, doesn't mean all the ones left behind feel the same way or they'd all move.

Seems to me that this would indicate that tossing insults at other countries is wasteful... that things do not end up being the same in every system. Conservatives might be bad in one place and good in another, and the same for progressives.

In the USA, it was the Republican Party which was formed to seek the abolishment of slavery. The Democratic Party was comprised of "souther good ol' boys" who were PRO-slavery. Yet, today, look who the minorities support. The party who would gladly have kept a great many of them toiling in the cotton fields. And BOTH parties have always been headed by the wealthy, who promise all manner of freebies(like amnesty, and change) in exchange for votes.

I'd say, it's not the party at fault. It's the leadership of those parties who are all to happy to pit person against person in the hope that they will not notice the slight of hand being performed by the politicians.

RIGHT ON, DWIGHT!

As I SAID... " quite a number of people I know". A lot of people leave the USA for places where they can live like kings and queens on 1/12th the income the locals make. Quite a number of places where I could retire to where my $40K per year could pay for a very tasty lifestyle. And I could still easily afford to return to the USA for any serious medical needs.... as many do.

Some of the blame must go to the fools at the polls. Honest politicians (yes, there are some) cannot get elected because so many voters just cast their votes for the glibitician who promises the biggest free lunch.

Locally, we just elected a pair of Tea Party Virgins who promised that they could cut taxes without cutting services, by cutting waste; yet neither of those TPVs could -- when publicly asked -- identify any significant waste. And the majority of we-the-fools stood in line for that free lunch.

In a democracy, you get the government you deserve.

Which as I was pointing out, proves nothing. There are people from the very same places you think are great who wish like hell they could somehow be able to move to the USA.

SNIP

Personally, and contrary to what many say about Canadian medicine and that of other nations, I wouldn't trade the USA for any of them. Like many things, the USA doesn't have the perfect system, but, after living in many other countries, it's about the best one I have found. Those who like what they may have are welcome to it. Of course, with Obamacare, that opinion is subject to change.

The greatest danger to the future of the USA is the legislative branch of the federal government: it is broken. First, note that only people with enormous egos run for congress; when they win, their egos ? swollen by their staff of sycophants ? lead them to believe that the most important national issue is their own reelection. Secondly, those congressfolks discover that they must raise at least $20,000 per week to have a shot at reelection, and that serious fundraising requires bartering with every lobbyist not currently incarcerated. Next, the special interest groups that fund the congressfolks gently demand their pound of flesh; most large corporations have found that the best investment in the USA is to buy a piece of congress. Finally, since fundraising requires at least 30 hours per week, the congressfolks do not have time to even read those complex bills which had been drafted by the lobbyists, and so the congressfolks simply vote as directed by their partisan leaders or by polling numbers.

And the state of our congress matters to car-lovers because every constraint on cars (mileage requirements, weight-adding safety requirements, gas taxes, gas/ethanol quality, etc.) is dictated by politics, not derived from science.