Richard,

You gotta stop watching so many Michael Moore flix

Robin

Socemdog

"Michael Daly" ) writes:
On 7-Nov-2004, (William R. Watt) wrote:

... Canadian living in the USA where he has a higher income and
lower taxes making paddling a more affordable passtime. :)

And yet the Canadian dollar, currently at US$0.83 is at purchasing
parity with the US$. In other words, for US$0.83, you can buy the
same goods and services in Canada as you can with US$1.00 in the US.
So much for your fantasies.

Won't argue with that point. However, it's not relevant to what I posted.
I noted that in the USA a Canaidan can get a higher income and lower taxes
leaving him or her with more dollars of disposable income. If US dollars
buy the same as Canadian dollars as you claim, you're better off with more
of either.


Paddling equipment has long been cheaper in Canada than in the US
as long as you buy Canadian products.

Point taken. For those of us who build our own boats I don't think that's
true as there seems to be more variety of materials at lower cost in the
USA. Must be the higher cost labour component in the USA that lifts the
finished product price.

Last year someone noted you can buy a Honda outboard motor in Vancouver
20% cheaper than in Seattle. People in the USA do pay more to protect
domestic industry.

On the whole I think techies are better off financially in the USA than
Canada. Under a Republican administration it can only get better. Although
if the lefites are right (excuse pun) paddlers might have to drive a bit
further to find "wilderness". :)


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On 9-Nov-2004, ospam (Larry Cable) wrote:

I strongly agree with him that the Islamist movement is a great danger to
Western society,

Compare the number of Americans killed by terrorists on US soil in the
last (choose time period) years to the number of Americans murdered by
Americans on US soil in the same period. Are you sure that terrorists
are such a big problem? You'd save a lot more American lives by
spending those $billions at home than by waging illegal wars abroad.

Mike

in article , socemdog at
pchuck wrote on 11/8/04 11:39 PM:

Richard,

You gotta stop watching so many Michael Moore flix

Robin

Socemdog

Yes, stick with Fox News, where reality is created every day!

On 9-Nov-2004, (William R. Watt) wrote:

I noted that in the USA a Canaidan can get a higher income and lower taxes
leaving him or her with more dollars of disposable income.

This is often more a myth than a reality. I've looked a jobs in the US and
found that I can make more in Toronto ON than in most places in the US.
The places in the States where salaries are higher have outrageous real
estate costs. After paying for a place to live and for medical insurance
and expenses and all those other things we in Canada take for granted,
you're just as well off staying home. Not true for some professions, but
true for many.

Besides, Canadians have more clean water to paddle in.

Mike

Ok - ya got me on the water part. I have been trying to figure out a way to
come up that way and try some of it out. No time to do it though - maybe
when I retire, which seems very far away.

"Michael Daly" wrote in message
...
On 9-Nov-2004, (William R. Watt) wrote:

I noted that in the USA a Canaidan can get a higher income and lower
taxes
leaving him or her with more dollars of disposable income.

This is often more a myth than a reality. I've looked a jobs in the US
and
found that I can make more in Toronto ON than in most places in the US.
The places in the States where salaries are higher have outrageous real
estate costs. After paying for a place to live and for medical insurance
and expenses and all those other things we in Canada take for granted,
you're just as well off staying home. Not true for some professions, but
true for many.

Besides, Canadians have more clean water to paddle in.

Mike

On 11-Nov-2004, Dan Valleskey valleskey at comcast dot net wrote:

I think I will have to stay home for the next four years.

Better you should act. Don't let the religious right corrupt
your long-defended Constitution. Never allow the government to
be a corrupt user of its power - at home or internationally.

The use of strawman enemies by politicians and rulers is well
documented. Nothing like an enemy conspiracy to unite the
stupid lemmings around those leaders. The US governments and
media have been portraying Arabs and Islamists in bad light for
decades. They've now replaced the communists as the rallying
cry. Not justified.

Mike

On 10-Nov-2004, "Michael Daly" wrote:

...did in the Baltics?

Oops - make that the Balkans.

Sorry - typing to fast.

Mike

Felsenmeer wrote:

Same here... had to dodge powerboats whilst canoeing across crossing Crooked
Lake. What scares me more than Bush getting re-elected is that it looks
like the country in general has swung even further to the right.

Liberals will never get it. Contrary to their deluded thinking, the
overwhelming majority of people in this country are conservative and
always have been. Whenever liberalism manages to gain a toe-hold, it's
slapped down in the next election cycle. Americans don't want a
liberal/progressive/socialist country, period. Thank goodness for that!

It's one
thing if the president doesn't give a **** about the environment; it's
something altogether different (and *much* worse) when the president AND the
electorate don't care.

Nonsense! While it's definitely true that most Americans consume/waste
too much, recycle too little and don't put environmental concerns above
issues like values, security and economics, there is still enough
concern to prevent an environmental catastrophy. You watch, once the
economy recovers fully, there will be a push toward stronger
environmental policies. In some ways it's sad, but environmentalism only
comes to the forefront when we can afford it. For example, we
desperately need to reinstate the gas-guzzler tax or something similar,
but to do so now would drive the economy back into recession.

Whether you believe it or not, there is nothing that prevents one from
being both conservative and pro-environment.