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Old 02-24-2005, 06:51 AM   #50 (permalink)
Janey
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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
Oddly enough Canada's sad state of military affairs is even effecting their ablility to mediate and peace keep.
- agree. but this is the result of gov't cutbacks, and the need to pay off the national credit card. I don't think that you could get a person on the street to disagree with you. And you shouldn't denigrate our military personnel because of it.

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But on the health care note whatever works for you guys, as a country with one tenth of our population and accordingly virtually none of our socio-economic issues (or at least anywhere near our extent), you are afforded the chance to have universal care.
- agreed. And so? You should as well with the economies of scale playing in your favour. All that is different is the management issues that come with size differences.

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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
Plus you guys are quasi-socialists.
-now i am really curious. You say that like it is a bad thing. Please explain why. Now I vote PC or Liberal depending on issues, so I am not a hardcore socialist, nor even quasi... but I have to admit that I am constantly perplexed at your (not just you personally...) stance on the question of socialism. What gives???
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