Icebound
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On 6/24/2017 at 3:17 PM, taxme said:
.... and I believe that this will lead to once again making Canada great again.
Why is Canada not great?
What, specifically, will improve its greatness?
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On 3/13/2017 at 5:11 PM, bush_cheney2004 said:
The U.S. can "discriminate" against any nationals it wants to, including Canadians. This is a sovereign right. Many presidents and U.S. federal law have done this in the past and present. I have cited several rational reasons and policies that you choose to ignore.
Yes, they can.
To their economic peril, of course. Not to mention the damage to their moral reputation.
But do we really believe that a truly dedicated terrorist cannot get into the country if he really wanted to... even with this ban... ?
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On 3/12/2017 at 3:06 PM, blackbird said:
You are completely out of touch with reality. Check the website religionofpeace dot com
Jihad report for March 4 to 10th, 2017.
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Total number killed by terrorist attacks since 9-11: 30,446
Care to include the stats on how many civilians killed since 9-11 by western-led forces?
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15 hours ago, Hal 9000 said:
Women can go to many places for their birth control and medical care, how about a clinic - they don't need to go to Planned Parenthood.
Yes, but those clinics around the world that provide abortions will be cut funding, and will thus reduce their ability to provide those services. With the net result of more unwanted pregnancies and MORE abortions.
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4 hours ago, bush_cheney2004 said:
Kinda..sorta..President Trump is going to want something in return.
Yeah... Canada as the 51st state.
..But regardless of whether he goes that extreme or not, as long as there is ANY discomfort for Canadian business, you are going to see another rise in the calls to join the USA. These have been somewhat quiet of late, but I am betting that they will start again.
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9 minutes ago, Hal 9000 said:
I agree completely, I don't thing anyone is cutting of help for birth control or medical care though.
Oh, but they are.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/23/trump-abortion-gag-rule-international-ngo-funding
"Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order banning international NGOs from providing abortion services or offering information about abortions if they receive US funding."
The practical effect is: cutting funding.
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20 hours ago, Hal 9000 said:
It's not like cancer, abortion is a choice, why should taxpayers pay for it?
It may be a choice, but it is not necessarily a completely FREE choice.
Overwhelmingly, the highest PERCENTAGE of pregnancies are aborted by RICH single women.
... but the most abortions are by POOR single women.... precisely those women who are less education, are more apt to be in abusive or "controlling" relationships, the women whose social, economic, and physical situation is totally unsuitable for rearing children.
Those people need help. Increasing their access to birth control and other medical care, is much more likely to decrease the rate of unwanted pregnancy and actually REDUCE the rate of abortions.... Cutting help off will only increase misery in many ways, not the least of which is that abortions will be done anyway in unsanitary and dangerous ways.
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8 minutes ago, Hal 9000 said:
Why do women want to have abortions so bad?
That is the whole point. Women don't.
But they also don't want a bunch of old, white men telling them what they can and cannot do.
Basically, it is as simple as that.
It is too bad that medical records are so meticulously protected. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that, of all those white men in the Oval Office, that some one in there had a family member that has had an abortion.
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On 1/22/2017 at 6:39 AM, betsy said:
Not necessarily.
It means the deal they make will have to be in the best interest of Americans. That's what every citizens want of their government! That's what governments should do!
It is not a "good" deal if it is in the best interest of one party at the expense of another. That is called: exploitation.
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On 1/22/2017 at 6:52 AM, bush_cheney2004 said:
Wow.....President Trump is sure getting a lot of international attention. I wonder why that is ?
The same reason as ANY big disaster.
Everest earthquake, Malaysian air crashes, etc., etc. etc. They all affect many people in negative ways.
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We will have to wait to see whether re-negotiating NAFTA turns out to be "negotiation" or "extortion".
There is no doubt that the superior resources of the larger country can "slam" Canada. That why countries have treaties.... agreements specifically crafted so that "slamming" does not happen in either direction.
Else it becomes a road to civil unrest and even war.
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Since Trump has already indicated "me first", which is another way of saying: "Any deal I make is going to screw you", ....
... then why should Canada bother to respond at all?
If he decides to impose his 35 percent tarriffs, his own States and businesses will pretty soon change his mind, themselves.
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On 1/19/2017 at 2:24 AM, taxme said:
I believe that Canada will have to start to think like Trump, and start to get rid of plenty of in the way of business rules and regulations that hurt businesses. Canada needs to start to think about more freedom, less government, and less taxes. Canada will have to start to think conservatively. There are many programs and agendas that can be cut or abolished. We can survive but we need to think like Trump does if we want to get along with Trump. There can be no other way out. It's join or die.
Does this sound like the old "better to be Red than Dead" resignation of some during the dark 50s and 60s?
Do you ever consider why we evolved INTO all these rules and regulations?
You only have to look back less than 10 years for the most recent example that decimated untold thousands of people. You want to return to 2008, do you?
And not only banking..... Acid rain, asbestos, tobacco, automobiles before Nader, labour exploitation, and on and on. If business were willing to be ethical and clean up after themselves, .... yes...we would not need regulation. They aren't and don't, and they need to be chased every step of the way. Regulation of those things is what makes Canada "a nice place to live".
Take them away, and you have just another ugly country of the rich exploiting the poor, in a long list.
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On 1/10/2017 at 5:47 AM, betsy said:
Trudeau vs Trump. Bambi vs Godzilla.
That's how Kevin O'Leary described it. (CBC interview last night)
Trudeau was a teacher.
He has had experience dealing with unruly children.
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12 minutes ago, bush_cheney2004 said:
Provincial and regional "malapportionment" are well documented.
By what definition?
Most urban ridings (1 rep) have 120k population or less. Except for a very few isolated ones, most rural ridings have 75k or more. Which, I admit, does skew representation unfairly toward the so-called conservation West. But 120 vs 75 does not seem like an unreasonable apportionment.... Are you suggesting that there should be fewer ridings in the rural areas?
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18 minutes ago, hernanday said:
America runs a low inflation regime, it is the only major country who has such a stable dollar that can absorb trillions of dollars of wealth. Canada cannot absorb that.
Trillions of dollars of wealth spread over 300+ million people should go a long way to helping all "those-left-behind"....
Providing it was actually spread across 300+ million people.
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9 minutes ago, bush_cheney2004 said:
Riding proportions and population, appointed Senators through age 75, PM from party leadership (not citizen vote).
President Trump has more of a mandate than the present PM of Canada.
You collected all those numbers riding by riding, congressional district by district, into a spreadsheet?
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I have been told that successful "deal-makers" consider a "good deal" as being one in which both parties benefit.
These people tend not to make deals with someone whose position is: "me first".
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On 1/14/2017 at 10:21 PM, sharkman said:
BTW, Steele was hired to dig up this dirt on Trump by, you guessed it, Dem organizations. They didn't use it during the election. Care to make any guesses why?
Actually, it seems that at least in part, he was hired by Trump's GOP nomination rivals.
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7 minutes ago, bush_cheney2004 said:
False....Trumps America provides a more representative political system and Trump/party have more voter support than PM Trudeau/LPC in Canada.
How did you measure that?
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On 1/13/2017 at 5:48 PM, sharkman said:
It's an unproven unsubstantiated rumour. The media would not go near it if it was about Obama, and you know it.
Here is the profile of the guy who started this "unsubstantial rumor", and the circumstances wherein he started it.
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Mr Steele's reports circulated for months among major media outlets, including Reuters, but neither the news organisations nor US law enforcement and intelligence agencies have been able to corroborate them.
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Steele really does sound like a guy who would start a rumor just for the hell of it, doesn't he... After all, instead of just presenting the report to his employers (who were Trump's political enemies), he deemed it of sufficient national interest to submit it to the Country's highest law-enforcement officials.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-banknote-woman-1.3885844
Does this mean that a certain segment of our population will now refuse to handle $10 bills?
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2 hours ago, OftenWrong said:
Whether the dow went up or down, you people would find something bad to say about it. It went up despite all your hopes, and DT is the next president. So suck it up, buttercup
Actually, I don't have any particular "hopes" for the USA except one... that it does not dissolve into civil war.
Like they say..."It used to be a nice place to visit...."
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21 hours ago, OftenWrong said:
"The DOW surged over 1200 points since Donald Trump won the White Hose." - CNN
http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/07/investing/trump-dow-jones-1000-points-election/
Of course it has... Wall Street sees DT as a useless ignoramus that it absolutely no threat to Corporate operations.
Tax-payer bailouts to stay in America will sharpen the bottom line. Increased Military spending will be good. They do not expect DT to be able to do anything substantial for those "left-behinds" who voted him in, and they don't care. As long as he is not spending money on those, Wall Street will be unaffected.
America under President Trump
in Federal Politics in the United States
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Oh, okay.
And here, I thought that Canada would improve its greatness if...
...we spent more money on infrastructure, build better roads and high-speed rail to reduce the number of trucks on the highways. Maybe a pharmacare program, especially for those catastrophic illnesses where the drugs cost thousands per month. Make sure all its treaties are applied and enforced; make sure that everybody has clean water and food. Eliminate homelessness. Get rid of unwanted bigots.
All that would be a start. don't you think?