No worries...It won't hurt.
(Red... I'll buy ya some some tax free smokes if I can crash at ur place for a spell, and as long as your hot young daughter stays away this time)! hehe
Cigars Please! (Only Cuban) They're cheaper in Spain if you're flying over from Europe anyway.
My Daughter turns 9 in May - Is that why you posted supporting Sitko?:wink: (she is gonna be HOT like her Momma, and speak 4 or 5 languages (3 already) but she's into this boy down the street)
It's sad that you say that because America cares for its people more than anyplace else in the world. Ever heard of individual rights? Do you know of anyplace who upholds them better than America? I didn't think so.
You Freakin' joking? Your subjective opinion is NOT backed up by facts:
1) America leads the world by having the largest percentage of its population incarcerated - check that fact - I'm right!
2) Gay rights? I'd say gay people don't have freedoms appreciated by others - but they do in Canada!
3) Abortion - not as available in the USA - some states have actually taken HUGE steps to make it illegal - isn't the choice to abort a baby an "individual right?" Why is George Bush quashing it?
4) Wire tapping? don't get me started!!!!
5) The basic human right to healthcare - shouldn't people have the right to medical attention - not just those who can afford it? (Oh, yeah, I'm a stupid socialist, I should agree with you instead - the poor should die
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You have absolutely NO idea what you are talking about do you? Zero...it's simply amazing you'd make such a bold statement without any understanding of the subject...
How about a group buy for one way tickets out?
You can stay at my place until you get settled - all those NSXs in the driveway will be cool!
Seriously, Its happened "en mass" before, the United Empire Loyalists left the USA for Canada, as was there a large influx during the Vietnam war, as is there a hefty number of Americans coming now - American history glosses over these facts.
if you have a lot of money the USA is the best place to live.
if you do not have a lot of money and no plans to make a lot of money the UN says the best places to live are
1. iceland
2. norway
3. australia
4. canada
5. ireland
the USA comes in #12.
BTW the worst place to live is sierra leone #177.
so practically speaking you would want to be moving to australia or canada.
i have heard that in canada after you have been there a few years you automatically qualify for free health insurance.
the problem is that if social security and medicare goes bankrupt in the USA almost everyone who is middle class or lower will want to move to Canada. at that point the Canadians will probably stop allowing immigration. unless you have a lot of money. but then why leave?
Its true Canada has a high standard of living and less stress - Toronto, a city of 5.5 Million, had 98 murders last year - many were wife kills husband type of things.
Most countries aren't free... and what is freedom to you? BTW, democracy does not equal liberty as you've implied with the elections. Freedom is each persons individual right to purse any path they choose so much as it does not infringe on anybody else's life or freedom. America is closer to that model and anybody else, by far..
Again with the repeated but un fact checked facts!
Bush won the election based on the whole gay rights thing - people in America (the Christian Right) wants to infringe on other people's rights and freedoms - then he decided to arrest people (even American citizens) and hold them without trials, next it was wiretapping - the public seem to think its necessary, but when you start down the slippery slope its hard to turn back - and as long as you keep regurgitating the Mantra without monitoring the facts you are at risk of truly losing those Freedoms you cherish (I cherish them too, and I'm not USA bashing, I'm just upset when I hear so many Americans reciting the Mantra as the situation changes around them and they ignore the change because they believe the Mantra)
If our country cared, we wouldn't have enacted social security in the first place. But we messed up, my generation won't get what we paid either, but I don't consider myself a victim. .
I disagree, we have less crime in Canada partially because we have less desperate people - had each slave been given their acreage and a mule there would have a community of people who could have sustained themselves and lived rurally - reducing desperation makes society safer for the common people - look at how the three strikes laws have endangered common people as criminals fight to stay out of jail at all costs.
A_J, are you kidding me? What does this have to do with individual rights? This is g-damn socialism... geez, please leave our country if you're here and you're a socialist... it is not the place for you. I personally like to be rewarded for my abilities and I don't believe in the sacrificial individual..
Isn't tolerance the hallmark of a truly free society? It seems you're not so good at the practice, but not too bad at the preach!:wink:
I politely disagree. This comes across as arrogance. The attitude of we are number one, gives a negative light to a country which is supposedly a beacon for western culture, ideals and equality for all.
Pop around to some other countries and see what they are saying about the 'BEST' country in the world. Thankfully there are many wonderfully open minded people working in countries to get rid of elitist attitudes.
I was told the 'America is No.1' train of thought is actually taught/encouraged in the education system, it would be sad if it were true.
(another non-American chipping in - we didn't drink the cool aid)
Its a HUGE issue - when people believe ANYTHING unquestionably, the opportunity to change the agenda and have everyone follow, unquestioning, is there - the Big Three Car makers have been saying "we're number one" for years (Ford was a client so I witnessed it) when confronted with reality they always had their take, "cheaper to make in Japan" "we know what Americans want" "our stuff is safer" you guys know where they are now - and they still think their shit doesn't stink "Ford, Quality is Job 1" but their quality sucks compared to a Honda - so why the Quality Mantra? If they were like the Japanese, they would reverse engineer the best examples and start from there to improve things.
I want all of you to STAY in America and stop accepting what the Government and special interests are doing to America (don't say totally crazy sh!t can't happen - remember the McCarthy era?) Fix it so your America lives up to the standard you seem to believe you're already at. (of course that means letting go of bigotry, xenophobia and small thinking and testing everything against the phrase, "Is this limiting anyone's true personal freedom?) 
