Ceri Thomas wrote:

That only shows how much one knows about US politics and political
history. Not if one is patriotic as not one patriotic question was asked.
I passed with 26 and I live in Canada and was born and educated in the UK
but I'm by no means a patriotic Yank.

Hi Ceri,

I've lived in the US for 49 years now, and my wife
is a dual US/UK citizen. We are in London today,
an have been touring the UK for the past week.


The whole world just finds it funny how you guys down there just go on and
on about how grand your not so grand nation is. One century you guys will
step out of the bubble and look in on yourselves for the first time and see
what you guys really are as a whole, or is it a hole?

Regarding your comment about our "not so grand
nation", I suggest that you concentrate on
improving your own nation and let us work on
improving ours. Both the UK and Canada have
plenty of problems you could attempt to improve if
you chose to expend your energy that way.

During our tour here in the UK, my wife and I have
been talking about how the UK now feels more like
a third world nation than the first world. We
love the people here, but they are being royally
screwed by their system. We will be happy to go
home to the states. The cost of living here is
more than double what it is in the US, and the
wages are about 1/2. That is why we have so many
displaced Scots an Brits living and working in my
hometown of Austin TX. My next door neighbor is
one, and my wife works with four or five. We also
have loads of Indians, Pakistanis, Chinese,
Vietnamese, Russian, Eastern European, etc...

I have an aunt and uncle who are Canadian
citizens. They have plenty of criticisms about
Canada and its politics to talk about.

Believe me, we in the US are aware of our
problems, and there is plenty of internal debate
regarding almost any issue you want to bring up.
It is easier to recognize a problem than to solve it.

But if you really feel that Canada is the best
place to be, I'll be happy to try to redirect the
millions of immigrants (legal and otherwise) that
are coming to the US each year to your doorstep.

Regards,

Don W.