what kind of arguement is that?

drive downtown and enjoy the ride. and then tell me how lame the TTC is. oh and buy cars for each of your kids so they can add to the traffic.

btw. the health care system TOTALLY works. i'm healthy, my kids are healthy. my wife is healthy. your kids are healthy. maybe it isn't the system. the world's greatest health care is just south of the border. don't tell me you risked your health for a coupla bucks?

 how sad that you need to change the subject to NATO. newsflash: when one doesn't make enemies, one doesn't have enemies When one doesn't make enemies?  That only PROVES to me that Canada is worthless on the world scene and is Going Absolutely Nowhere.  Having your Foreign Minister get on TV and WHINE about where he wants the world to be like accomplishes NOTHING. The United States, on the other hand, because we actually project power (which protects you ingrates), shapes the world.  We in the United States are the more dynamic and vibrant country, and thus will be remembered in the annals of world history for millenia to come, while Canada will be a footnote., one doesn't need to spend more money on military than educating youth We can plunge the ENTIRE GDP of the United States on our children and they will come out no smarter...but some bureaucrats will be well-fed.  Is this the kind of intelligent discourse I can expect from a flaming Leftist (and presumed NDP member) Canadian ingrate? 

I'd rather the money go to a military that keeps you warm and comfy in your bed at night and allows you to greedily suck the tits of the Canadian Nanny. 

i thought there were americans who think the world revolves around them, thanks for making it clear  Think?  I KNOW the world revolves around the United States.  Thanks!  i guess we can thank america for having a budget surplus for well over a decade, while funding health care very very poorly.  How come I constantly hear about hospitals closing?  Doctors and nurses going on strike?  The provinces CONSTANTLY WHINING to Ottawa for MORE MONEY?  The Romanow Report?  How come ONE HOSPITAL in Houston has a larger research budget than your entire country?  , better public schools Well, you see, that's because our public schools have embraced the Nanny State Socialist concept that you so desperately want our country to embrace.  If we turned our schools to the mercy of the markets, we could improve them.  Besides, your public schools aren't that much better.  Hell, you Canadians are so ashamed of your country's history that it isn't even a required subject in high school in all but 4 provinces the last time I checked, a much lower crime rate Canada's population, lest you forget, can fit into CA.  The United States has 300 million people.  Next!  in an officially bilingual country You may not want to bring up Quebec.  You will only succeed in embarrassing yourself.  Let's not forget the FLQ or the Meech Lake Accords.  Let us also not forget that there is a constant push to separate from Canada there.  Let us also not forget that until the 1970s, Montreal was the financial center of Canada until separatism took its toll... 

I am proud to live in a nation with 1) arable farmland, 2) nuclear weapons, and 3) sun that shines more than three days out of the year! 

what would i do without the love of you?  Your economy would be in the toilet.  Before WWII, Canada made its money off of exports to Britain.  After that, it made, and still makes, its money off of exports to the United States.  If we were to ever cut off trade with your pathetic Nanny State, it's be over!  That's why your country hasn't legalized pot; the DEA saw to that.  one little threat from them sent your whole industry SCURRYING. 

Head on south of the border, kiss my ass, and thank me for defending your ingrateful, whiny ass. 

Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.

'Sustainable development' is just dangerous nonsense (Philip Stott, Professor Emeritus of Biogeography, University of London)
Sovietizing America: How Sustainable Development Crushes the Individual (The Objectivist Center)
Sustainable Development A Dubious Solution in Search of a Problem (PDF) (The Cato Institute)
Sustainable silliness (The Heartland Institute)

Spoken like a true socialist no wonder they are in such glee and desperate to pass global warming regulation since it will destroy the economy of the free world and wreck capitalism.

Socialist central planners think that just a couple of smart guys planning everything would be a utopia and not the reality which is the failed Soviet Union and Cuba.

The Anti 'Man-Made' Global Warming Resource

Yet we are turning out high-school graduates that cannot read the diplomas they are handed.

Government education has failed miserably. Then again, it was intended to fail.

I mean, what better way to turn people into wards of the state who are wholly dependant on government for even having their own hineys wiped than to make it impossible for them to make it on their own by dumbing them down to being borderline illiterates?

Thank God I only had to attend government school for about three years, else I too would be starting each sentence with a lower-case letter, as do you.

Theme for Election '08: Who cares?

Actually, yes, we spend too much on education, most state and local governments in the US spend up to 50% of their budgets on education.  The reason why most conservatives want to them to spend less is the liberals in this country have taken the position that throwing more money at the deteriorating level of educational standards is the answer to the problem.  Throwing money isn't the solution in fact it has become the problem and the contrast is to look at private schools, they do a much better job for less money and the reason why is in a nutshell is they #1 don't use PC methods, demanded by #2 the Teacher's Unions.  Throwing more money only attempts to cover up the problems and that doesn't work.

The fact that the Teacher's Unions fight tooth and nail against vouchers for poor children to go to private school, shows the power struggle they insist to the determent of children.  Since you are north of the border for your understanding of the voucher system these unions and libs are so adamantly against:  A voucher is issued to a child who goes to a failing public school (any school with a high percentage of drop outs and extremely low test scores), the voucher is accepted by the private school and the tuition for that child is paid for out of the public school budget.  The child in most cases comes from a poor neighborhood, so this isn't about the middle class getting a private education.  The results are the child actually learns and passes their classes thus getting a reasonable education.  Of course the public school system and teachers are angry because #1 the child does better in a private school that spends less money per capita to educate that child, the obvious connection becomes, the public schools suck because their methods suck.  This means they can't point the finger any longer at school boards providing enough money, thus they must accept personal responsibility for the child's failure at the public school.  No one likes to be told they were wrong, especially liberals.  #2, since the voucher money comes from the public school budget, that means they have less money to throw away and this forces accountability on them to prioritize and actually do their jobs instead of whining. 

The bottom line is the unions and the public school system in the US got the attitude it wasn't their job to make sure each and every student learned.  They had the temerity to actually think that if 80 or 90% of the students passed a course, that it was the singular fault of the 10 to 20% of the students who couldn't learn.  No, the fault lies with both the teacher and the student.  Certain PC methods of spoon feeding information to students doesn't work for all the students, thus those students whose brain wiring doesn't work well with the PC method are essentially tossed aside as non conforming and written off.  This is unacceptable.  It is the responsibility of the teacher and school system to find out WHY children are failing and use a different teaching method to reach them.  As far as the student is concerned, it is their responsibility to come to class on time and be ready to learn, if they have a discipline problem then they must be dealt with along with the parent(s).

 Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.