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Capitalism - you are likely to be either an exploiter and therefore thief or an exploited person. I don't expect exploiters to support Socialism.
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I am an exploited person then. I'm not a business owner. I also don't subscribe to the opinion that businesses are theives. There is no logical reason that big businesses should just give their money or resources to the poor.
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If it's YOUR money then hey why let anyone take so much as a cent from you? It's YOURS. If someone else's kid starves that's just too bad? Serves them right for having bad parents? I'm sure you are more socially responsible than that.
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The 16th Amendment, which was invented and passed by liberals, is why I pay taxes. I don't agree with it, but to live and work here I have to pay it. Basically, I pay because it's the law. Again, I favor a flat sales tax, not an income tax, which is pretty liberal in thought; you pay according to your means. Bush (for example) will pay more taxes for the things he buys than I will. A nice progressive tax rate that liberals advocate. Oh, and no tax returns either. I prefer that we'd get out of debt.
I have little (but some) sympathy for the poor. I had nothing, and now I have something. I worked for it. It's a time tested method for success and there's absolutely nothing stopping the poor from getting an education and a job except laziness.
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When the UK Empire was so powerful we were mass murderers. I won't deny or defend it. The US leads the world on this now and in the last 50 years of the last century.
War is organised mass murder. Words are powerful though so politicans prefer not to say 'lets have mass murder'
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I agree for the most part. Like I said, I prefer an isolationist policy.
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Moonbat fringe, pinko communist? I'm sure you think you are middle of the road. It's a right wing road littered with stolen property and doomed.
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I only appear to be a right winger to the extremists. The liberal in me will come out when appropriate.
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I still love the Canadians I've met. Jim and Sue wherever you are, I hope you are OK and still as nice and cool as you were when I knew you |
I've met several Canadians and loved them. My wife and I even went on vacation with them and visited them in Canada. However, they didn't influence my overalll opinion of Canada in general. I imagine it's the same as us (my wife and I) not influencing their overall opinion of America. Good people can come from anywhere.
Enough about me and my personal views. Someone asked how outsiders viewed Canada and I answered. I didn't figure it was going to be a popular opinion.
