That's all right - we're all used to being commie pinkos up here. Probably
due to having nothing to do all winter but huddle inside the igloos while
the arctic wolves and polar bears prowl outside. Lousy boating weather
grin

P.S. - finally the snow's almost gone in Southern Ontario!!!!

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"Brian D" wrote in message
...

Thanks. Hope I didn't come across too strongly. Now that I'm off my
"choose to succeed and do it in a free society" podium, I'll admit that
the
US has gained much from it's economic and political strong-arming. That's
not so right ...better to play the ball than the field. I wish everyone
had
a free government, free people, and a free market-driven capitalistic
society ...they'd be able to fight the strong-arming much more
effectively.

Brian


"William R. Watt" wrote in message
...

"Brian D" ) writes:
Spoken like a true Canadian socialist who's never experience a truly
free
capitalist society where innovation and free market rule are what
provide
people with their life's dreams. I would recommend that you try it
before
you judge it.

I've been fighting Canadian socialism for most of my adult life.


And if you are going to spout off about labor, let's get this straight
...we
agree. But you have to clarify your statement and say UNION labor.

Up here that's mostly PUBLIC SECTOR UNION labour, and with 18% of the
Ontario workforce in the public sector they command a lot of votes. It's
what comes from socialism, ie public ownership, and public control of
private property. Unlike the US we do not have private property
protection
in our constitution.

I hope the US pulls through. You've been carrying the cost of global
peace
for quite a while. Everyone expects the Yanks, among other things, to
patrol the seas and oceans and pay the cost. Before them it was the
Brits
who also charted the seas and oceans at public expense for future
generations of boatbuilders. But when the Brits asked the Yanks to help
pay
the cost the Yanks got ****ed of and revolted. The Yanks have been
smarter, paying for foreign goods in US dollars and them devaluing the
dollar.


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"Andrew Butchart" ) writes:

P.S. - finally the snow's almost gone in Southern Ontario!!!!

I was out paddling a new plywood box last week.
Jock River canoe race this Saturday (Ottawa).

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