Canada is Petrified

[Yagoda]

9 minutes ago, Mark989 said:

And people wonder why Americans are despised, your Honor exhibit #1.

Its OK, just do what you are told. Its a new world of peace and freedom. 

[KhunLA]

Here's a thought ... the ones supporting the less expensive imports, rather than 'buying USA', are probably the same ones that can not longer find good paying jobs in the manufacturing sector, since it mostly went overseas.

 

Corporate lobbyist  run the govt, make more profits by being allowed to manufacture overseas, taking the job market with them, so now you're dependent on imports.

 

Along with open southern border and rampant illegal immigrants, taking the few jobs that are available, at lower wages, due to supply & demand.   

 

Looking for someone to blame for the mess, look no further than the mirror.   You royally screwed yourselves.  Try researching and thinking before you vote.

 

Let that sink in, take as long as you need, don't hurt yourself.

[Mark989]

17 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

How embarrassing to be so weak and spineless

 

Speaking of embarrassment:

Donald Trump didn't lower taxes (He deferred them)

He didn't get rid of the ACA as promised. Nine years later he has nothing but “concepts of a plan”, he claims. When pressed he refuse to identify a single component of that conceptual plan.

He did not unite the USA, he divided it much worse than it has ever been in recent memory.

He didn't lower your prescription prices, Biden did.

He did not sign any infrastructure legislation, Biden did, a historic bill with bi-partisan support. 

He didn't end the opioid crisis or the illegal importation of illegal drugs into the USA as promised in 2015 in New Hampshire as promised, repeatedly. Under Biden the deaths are much lower, especially in 2024.

He did not “end the crime and violence that plagues our nation” between Jan. 20, 2017-2021 as promised publicly, July, 2016 at the RNC.

He didn't revive the coal industry as promised, repeatedly.

He did not bring back offshored manufacturing as promised, repeatedly.

He didn't make covid-19 'disappear' in a few days as promised.

He didn't make Mexico pay for the wall as promised, repeatedly. Barely any new wall was built during his administration and what wall was built is scalable by fit people. Some of the new wall was already   scheduled and funded to be repaired  Trump did illegally in the view of some constitutional lawyers reappoint funds designated for other purposes.

He added $2 Billion a month in tariff costs to the American consumer

He had a net-negative jobs creations for his administration though to be fair this is mostly due to the pandemic that he infamously refused to manage well to the point of ignoring the Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents playbook with Cabinet member Wilbur Ross falling asleep during the Obama-Trump transition meeting. 

He decreased corporate taxes, passing the tax burden to the workers

He added $ 7.8 Trillion to the deficit - a full 25% of the total

He incited an insurrection against the US government AND IT’S PEOPLE leading to deaths and then promised to pardon many that were convicted of various crimes including assaulting police officers. He is facing 8 civil lawsuits over this and his presidential immunity will not shield him.

He is the only president to never achieve 50% approval.

He didn't put "America first" and he sure didn't "Drain the Swamp...but he did put Putin and Russia first when he refused to accept American and her Allies Intelligence Services assessments of Russian 2016 election interference.

He left office with the worst job numbers of any President since the Great Depression.

 

He is a convicted felon, a convicted sexual abuser (a rapist in the words of the judge), several of his businesses ordered closed due to fraud, objectively a racist, and indicted four times by jurors on state and federal grand juries for some of the most serious crimes possible against a democratic republic.

 

He did pardon many convicted criminals that had not been recommended by the Federal Pardon Review Board and is promising to pardon hundreds more his first days in office.

He did nominate candidates for federal justices who were absolutely unqualified accordig o the professional organizations they belong to some with zero courtroom experience, unfit by nearly any reputable commonly used metric.

 

He did fail to condemn his personal lawyer Mr. L. Lin Wood calling for the hanging death of his Vice President Jan. 5, 2021 on Telegram social media (before deleting the message) due to the expectation Pence was going to perform his duties according to the US Constitution the next day in verifying the 2020 Electoral College votes. The real vote with real electors.

He did cause an unprecedented number of very critical books by former Cabinet and federal agency officials to be written and published.

He did refuse to side with American and her most important Allies intelligence services against Russia’s Putin in accepting objectively accurate facts of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election on his behalf.

He did refuse to attend some daily national security briefings and when he did attend according to those in attendance he did not pay attention and refused to listen to anything critical of Russia.

He did call WW1 Vets “Losers & Suckers” for giving and losing their lives for their country. He did illegally evade the Vietnam War draft board, repeatedly.

He did say he has no respect for American Vets who become POW if they are taken prisoner by the enemy through no fault of their own.

He did discuss the size of his penis during an internationally televised Republican National Presidential Candidates debate in 2016 to the delight of his supporters in the audience who demonstrated their approval by raucous laughter akin to barking seals at a circus.

[Mark989]

1 hour ago, Hanaguma said:

 Given the wait times for even the most basic diagnostic procedures in Canada, it is often a better option to scoot across the border, pay the cost, and get things done.  Wait times, lack of primary care physicians....... no thank you.

Care to cite the percentage of Canadians that chose the USA over Canada based on diagnostic wait times to support your anecdotal claim?

[Cryingdick]

4 minutes ago, Mark989 said:

Care to cite the percentage of Canadians that chose the USA over Canada based on diagnostic wait times to support your anecdotal claim?

I am no expert but the person with the most money always goes first. Canadian pr otherwise.

[Mark989]

7 hours ago, blaze master said:

 

A born and bred USA American. So not just an American. Got.it. 

 

 

Are you unaware one can be an American while never setting foot in the country?

[Yagoda]

22 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Americans should be petrified at the potential devastation that is coming due to incredibly ignorant and poorly thought out tariff policy, which is essentially an enormous tax hike on the average American, and a major issue for tens of thousands of American companies that manufacture overseas, including Trump himself. 

Seems to be working so far.

[impulse]

18 minutes ago, Mark989 said:

Speaking of embarrassment:

Donald Trump didn't lower taxes (He deferred them)

He didn't get rid of the ACA as promised. Nine years later he has nothing but “concepts of a plan”, he claims. When pressed he refuse to identify a single component of that conceptual plan.

He did not unite the USA, he divided it much worse than it has ever been in recent memory.

He didn't lower your prescription prices, Biden did.

He did not sign any infrastructure legislation, Biden did, a historic bill with bi-partisan support. 

He didn't end the opioid crisis or the illegal importation of illegal drugs into the USA as promised in 2015 in New Hampshire as promised, repeatedly. Under Biden the deaths are much lower, especially in 2024.

He did not “end the crime and violence that plagues our nation” between Jan. 20, 2017-2021 as promised publicly, July, 2016 at the RNC.

He didn't revive the coal industry as promised, repeatedly.

He did not bring back offshored manufacturing as promised, repeatedly.

He didn't make covid-19 'disappear' in a few days as promised.

He didn't make Mexico pay for the wall as promised, repeatedly. Barely any new wall was built during his administration and what wall was built is scalable by fit people. Some of the new wall was already   scheduled and funded to be repaired  Trump did illegally in the view of some constitutional lawyers reappoint funds designated for other purposes.

He added $2 Billion a month in tariff costs to the American consumer

He had a net-negative jobs creations for his administration though to be fair this is mostly due to the pandemic that he infamously refused to manage well to the point of ignoring the Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents playbook with Cabinet member Wilbur Ross falling asleep during the Obama-Trump transition meeting. 

He decreased corporate taxes, passing the tax burden to the workers

He added $ 7.8 Trillion to the deficit - a full 25% of the total

He incited an insurrection against the US government AND IT’S PEOPLE leading to deaths and then promised to pardon many that were convicted of various crimes including assaulting police officers. He is facing 8 civil lawsuits over this and his presidential immunity will not shield him.

He is the only president to never achieve 50% approval.

He didn't put "America first" and he sure didn't "Drain the Swamp...but he did put Putin and Russia first when he refused to accept American and her Allies Intelligence Services assessments of Russian 2016 election interference.

He left office with the worst job numbers of any President since the Great Depression.

 

He is a convicted felon, a convicted sexual abuser (a rapist in the words of the judge), several of his businesses ordered closed due to fraud, objectively a racist, and indicted four times by jurors on state and federal grand juries for some of the most serious crimes possible against a democratic republic.

 

He did pardon many convicted criminals that had not been recommended by the Federal Pardon Review Board and is promising to pardon hundreds more his first days in office.

He did nominate candidates for federal justices who were absolutely unqualified accordig o the professional organizations they belong to some with zero courtroom experience, unfit by nearly any reputable commonly used metric.

 

He did fail to condemn his personal lawyer Mr. L. Lin Wood calling for the hanging death of his Vice President Jan. 5, 2021 on Telegram social media (before deleting the message) due to the expectation Pence was going to perform his duties according to the US Constitution the next day in verifying the 2020 Electoral College votes. The real vote with real electors.

He did cause an unprecedented number of very critical books by former Cabinet and federal agency officials to be written and published.

He did refuse to side with American and her most important Allies intelligence services against Russia’s Putin in accepting objectively accurate facts of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election on his behalf.

He did refuse to attend some daily national security briefings and when he did attend according to those in attendance he did not pay attention and refused to listen to anything critical of Russia.

He did call WW1 Vets “Losers & Suckers” for giving and losing their lives for their country. He did illegally evade the Vietnam War draft board, repeatedly.

He did say he has no respect for American Vets who become POW if they are taken prisoner by the enemy through no fault of their own.

He did discuss the size of his penis during an internationally televised Republican National Presidential Candidates debate in 2016 to the delight of his supporters in the audience who demonstrated their approval by raucous laughter akin to barking seals at a circus.

Too

Many

Words

[Mark989]

27 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

 Its a new world of peace and freedom. 

Where have I heard that before?....oh, yeah....

Lest some have forgotten willfully or not:

*"I alone can fix the nation's problems. I have a message for all of you, the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end. Beginning on January 20th of 2017, safety will be restored. The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens."* - Donald Trump Republican candidate for POTUS from the RNC stage before the world July, 2016.

*American fools*

&

*"We are going to stop the inflow of drugs into New Hampshire and into our country 100%,"* Trump promised in 2016. It was a major campaign issue. Overdoses were surging in battleground states key to the election, like New Hampshire, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

*In 2017 — Trump's first year in office — more than 47,600 Americans died from illegal drug overdoses* according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

2018- 63.367-dead

2019- 70,630-dead

2020- 91,799-dead

*American fools*

[Mark989]

Just now, impulse said:

Too

Many

Words

"I love the uneducated" simple enough for you?

[impulse]

2 minutes ago, Mark989 said:

"I love the uneducated" simple enough for you?

 

Sure.  That's simple enough. 

 

But you're confusing "the uneducated" with "the unconvinced".  Or "the unindoctrinated".

 

[Mark989]

10 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

I am no expert but the person with the most money always goes first. Canadian pr otherwise.

Which is why in nearly every democratic country with universal access healthcare with private insurance those with adquate funds can go to the front of the line. For those without at least they have hope of getting healthcare though yes, they may have to wait their turn. For those without sufficient capital in the USA and unwilling to incur costs they cannot possibly repay they must chose no healthcare.

There's a good reason most democracies have universal access healthcare and that the USA is an outlier. Some of the same reasons Americans recently re-elected a  deplorable 45th &  47th POTUS the convicted felon (34 counts), convicted sexual abuser (a rapist in the words of the judge), repeatedly convicted business fraudster, state and federal quadruply indicted of some of the most serious crimes in a democracy, Vietnam War draft-dodger, infamously dishonest Republican, Christian supported man that inherited his wealth who referred to WW1 American Veterans that gave their life for their country as "loser & suckers".

[FritsSikkink]

21 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Be patriotic and simply 'buy USA' .. then no issue with any tariffs 

 

That is what people want, and why they voted the way they did  

Could have bought "USA" for years but apparently they prefer to pay less for their goods.

[Hanaguma]

23 minutes ago, Mark989 said:

Care to cite the percentage of Canadians that chose the USA over Canada based on diagnostic wait times to support your anecdotal claim?

According to this poll by Global News, 42% are willing to go to the USA for routine care if necessary, and 38% for emergency care. These numbers are climbing over time.

 

https://globalnews.ca/news/10322678/health-care-canada-us-ipsos-poll/

 

Raw numbers? Estimates are from 50,000 per year and up. It is a simple numbers game. The USA has, for example, nearly 4 times as many MRI scanners as Canada per capita.  And so on....

[Mark989]

5 minutes ago, impulse said:

But you're confusing "the uneducated" with "the unconvinced".  Or "the unindoctrinated".

 

No, I am not. I am addressing your reply that my post was "too many words" and your inability to respond to it.

You remind me of Trump refusing to attend and read the daily White House National Security briefings because he could not pay attention according to Pentagon Officials in those meetings. They had to resort to graphics.....pictures.

[Mark989]

1 minute ago, Hanaguma said:

According to this poll by Global News, 42% are willing to go to the USA for routine care if necessary, and 38% for emergency care. These numbers are climbing over time.

 

https://globalnews.ca/news/10322678/health-care-canada-us-ipsos-poll/

 

 

Willing does not mean they go. I am willing to own a Ferrari.

[theshu25]

5 hours ago, wombat said:

Like the Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke Peterson (RIP) ,

Trump throws his chooks (reporters) corn (information) and watches them peck around the ground as the squable.

Trump and Joh ....masters in manipulation 

Excatly, As if the orange freak gives a FF about USA. He is only in it to line his own grifting pockets.

[bobbin]

24 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

 

Raw numbers? Estimates are from 50,000 per year and up. It is a simple numbers game. The USA has, for example, nearly 4 times as many MRI scanners as Canada per capita.  And so on....

All of those American MRI scanners are purchased  by Corporations.. and return a very "healthy" PROFIT...

As opposed to the very responsible fiscal policy to match supply and demand, from Government coffers..

[Hanaguma]

21 minutes ago, bobbin said:

All of those American MRI scanners are purchased  by Corporations.. and return a very "healthy" PROFIT...

As opposed to the very responsible fiscal policy to match supply and demand, from Government coffers..

The words "responsible fiscal policy" have no place in discussing the current Canadian government.  And if supply met demand, there would be no cross border travel for MRIs or any other procedure. Waiting months for a procedure is simply not acceptable. 

 

I am glad the equipment in the US returns a healthy profit. It means that it will be available for people unwilling to tolerate the dystopian morass that is health care in Canada. Why do you write with such contempt? Nothing wrong with a business making a profit, is there?

[Hanaguma]

55 minutes ago, Mark989 said:

Willing does not mean they go. I am willing to own a Ferrari.

If you had taken the time, you would have seen some numbers. Latest I have seen is at least 80,000 people.  If the choice is wait 6 months for an MRI, or drive 2 hours and pay a thousand bucks to get it done on Saturday, a lot of people choose the latter option.

[Yagoda]

1 hour ago, Mark989 said:

Where have I heard that before?....oh, yeah....

Lest some have forgotten willfully or not:

*"I alone can fix the nation's problems. I have a message for all of you, the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end. Beginning on January 20th of 2017, safety will be restored. The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens."* - Donald Trump Republican candidate for POTUS from the RNC stage before the world July, 2016.

*American fools*

&

*"We are going to stop the inflow of drugs into New Hampshire and into our country 100%,"* Trump promised in 2016. It was a major campaign issue. Overdoses were surging in battleground states key to the election, like New Hampshire, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

*In 2017 — Trump's first year in office — more than 47,600 Americans died from illegal drug overdoses* according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

2018- 63.367-dead

2019- 70,630-dead

2020- 91,799-dead

*American fools*

Where ya from matey? Ashamed to tell us?

[Yagoda]

7 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

If you had taken the time, you would have seen some numbers. Latest I have seen is at least 80,000 people.  If the choice is wait 6 months for an MRI, or drive 2 hours and pay a thousand bucks to get it done on Saturday, a lot of people choose the latter option.

I understood there are cash discounts at a lot of MRI facilities for Canadians. 

[Paul52]

21 hours ago, bubblegum said:

So they are gonna pay more dollars for <deleted>ty stuff? Even Americans can't be that daft.

No they’re not, at least most aren’t.  The idiotic, short sighted policies dressed up as “patriotism” will be the loser in that contest.  Every time.

[blaze master]

1 hour ago, Mark989 said:

Are you unaware one can be an American while never setting foot in the country?

 

Well aware. Just sounded funny is all. 

[Lacessit]

1 hour ago, impulse said:

Too

Many

Words

Certainly is, for the attention span of the average Trump supporter.

[FritsSikkink]

1 hour ago, bobbin said:

All of those American MRI scanners are purchased  by Corporations.. and return a very "healthy" PROFIT...

As opposed to the very responsible fiscal policy to match supply and demand, from Government coffers..

Most expensive in the world: Average price MRI in selected countries 2017 | Statista

[spidermike007]

20 hours ago, Yagoda said:

your entire experience of America is a pair of florsheims 40 years ago. got it.

What a spectacularly lame response. You completely avoided answering any of his points. How typical. How jingoistic. 

[AgMech Cowboy]

On 12/10/2024 at 12:50 PM, CANSIAM said:

Greg Gutfeld the Goof............😉

Goofy gets a big pay check and a bigger, better crowd than the other ditsy, featherbrained, classless talking heads on the other media outlets.

[spidermike007]

18 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

My Nebraska-made Kawasaki Concours had more US-sourced components than my dad's 'merkan i-run Harley.

 

No "jap-carp" for him, no sirree, bob!

But that actually requires some thought and research, rather than just the repetition of jingoistic nonsense. 

[CANSIAM]

7 hours ago, Hanaguma said:

I take it you have never had the "pleasure" of living with Canada's health care system. A lot of people think that Canada does not have private health care, but that is untrue. We DO have private health care. It's called "the United States".  Given the wait times for even the most basic diagnostic procedures in Canada, it is often a better option to scoot across the border, pay the cost, and get things done.  Wait times, lack of primary care physicians....... no thank you.

 

As for the overall cost of living, the US is higher, that is true. According to Numbeo, the US cost is 70, and Canada 64. So we can modify the GDP figures to reflect this- add 10% to Canada. It would push Canada all the way up to 44th, somewhere around the Kentucky or Oklahoma level.

True enough, unless death is imminent in Canada you are on a 6 month wait list, better yet fly to Bangkok get your procedure done pronto..........