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9 Responses to “The Average Canadian is Now Richer than the Average American”
The major reasons for Canada’s economic triumph over its neighbor to the south, it seems, are rooted in the 2008 recession that rocked the United States’ economy and collapsed its housing market. American house prices plunged, and now Canadian real estate holds more value.
That’s one reason: another is the enormous amount of wealth currently being generated in the Great White North in the energy and mineral industries, which are booming.
Canadians are also, as a rule, healthier than Americans because they eat better and exercise more; also, demographically, they have pursued an immigration policy that tends to yield them a smarter, more industrious, and healthier type of immigrant than the insanity going on on our southern border. The genius of that latter move is that the Canadian authorities have couched that immigration policy in terms of “diversifying” the country – the typical Leftist PC-babble – while at the same time making sure that they get the very best, the cream, of that “diversity” pool. Emergency refugee allowances aside, the Canadian immigration requirement is actually very strict, and they have another advantage, a geographical one, to keep unwanted migrants out: between them and the potential flood of unwanted immigrants from central and South America is this big huge chunk of real estate known as the United States.
So, Canada has been able to finance much of its “socialist” program due to several factors, not one of them having to do with the actual efficacy of Marxist economic doctrine itself: (1) old-fashioned capitalist glut-economics, i.e., mineral and fossil-fuels wealth, which was simply sitting in the ground waiting to be exploited for millions of years; (2) an whip-smart immigration policy that selects for the best of the best from around the world, and tends to work well for Canada; (3) it’s geographic proximity to the United States, for all sorts of reasons. One thing I haven’t mentioned is that Canada pretty much gets a “free ride” in military-related spending because when your next door neighbor is the biggest, baddest, heaviest armed dude on the block, and he’s signed solemn treaties vowing to protect your own abode at his own expense should anyone try to mess with you, you don’t tend to worry too much about financing a huge military infrastructure; (4) the aforementioned recession, and the housing crises, which the article points to.
Ah, actual facts: they tend to sour the Leftist Narrative quite quickly, regardless of the topic under discussion.
Ahhhhh, ain’t that cute: after an all-to-brief hiatus due to the factual spanking he recently took in a couple of threads, Denny still didn’t take that time to get his problems solved when it comes to this “debate” thingy. He still (a) either doesn’t read what the post in the screen in front of him actually says, or (b) he simply does not comprehend what the words that make up said posts, once strung together into sentences & paragraphs, actually mean.
Either, or.
In the meantime:
“Always a ton of excuses for why your ‘inevitable’ predictions don’t pan out”
That is non-responsive gibberish, but extrapolating from what it was probably meant to convey is that (1) sometime in the past some conservative somewhere has made some ‘inevitable’ (Sic) prediction that “Socialism” in Canada was going to lead to economic ruin and (2) this article somehow proves the contrary. One can only speculate: when Leftists have nothing with which to refute facts, they get all obscure and start employing follow-the-bouncing-ball logic that ultimately leads to nowhere, save some moronic self-satisfaction that they somehow got the “last word.”
However, shifting through that silly gibberish and extrapolating on what it was supposed to mean, the rejoinder to it boils down to one word: Detroit.
Short, sweet, understandable (even for persons with apparent raging reading comprehension problems) – and irrefutable.
Canada is working, and–at the moment–working better than the US for its citizens. And it is ‘socialist’, as defined by the most renowned conservative pundits around, whose credentials for articulating the ideology outshine yours like the sun outshines a burnt-out match.
Detroit is not working. The reasons are as varied as there are stars in the sky.
(But multiple excuses are your purview, so I won’t detail them.) But since I don’t live in Detroit, and have no influence over what happens there, I feel no need to defend it.
So have a nice day. Try not to step in your own bile.
“Detroit is not working. The reasons are as varied as there are stars in the sky”
Hmmmmm. Someone was posturing recently on a discussion board about…well, here just let me quote it: “Always a ton of excuses for why…”
“If pointless insults were people, you’d be China.”
What was it Harry Truman said about the truth-telling being mistaken for hell-giving?
“…outshine yours like the sun outshines a burnt-out match…Unlike some, I actually have a life outside the internet…Try not to step in your own bile.”
Ahhhhh, good ‘ole Luke 4:23: still getting a good workout on the webz since Al Gore invented it. Denny, this is particularly low-hanging fruit, so to speak, even for you.
“What was it Harry Truman said about the truth-telling being mistaken for hell-giving?”
I’m shocked you even know who Truman was, he being a Democrat and all…
Luke doesn’t apply. It’s a matter of complete indifference to me whether you heal yourself, I just wish you’d say something on topic now and then. But vituperation evidently is what our host considers ‘contributing to the discussion’, so preach on, brother…preach on. It’s amusing.
Nah, what’s “amusing” is your Projection (“just wish you’d say something on topic now and then. But vituperation…”), your continued non-responsiveness (every reply so far in this thread, among others), and your desperate clawing at that troll-gold, i.e, the precious “last word,” despite having bid me and by clear implication any further interaction with me in this thread adieu (“So have a nice day”).
“Dormee bien”
LOL! So it’s not just classical Latin you’re acquainted with, huh? Google’s got it’s money’s worth out of you, that’s fer sure. Funny stuff.
July 18th, 2012 at 07:14
So I guess Rampant Socialism hasn’t brought Canada to its knees, after all. Who knew?
July 18th, 2012 at 12:26
From the article:
The major reasons for Canada’s economic triumph over its neighbor to the south, it seems, are rooted in the 2008 recession that rocked the United States’ economy and collapsed its housing market. American house prices plunged, and now Canadian real estate holds more value.
That’s one reason: another is the enormous amount of wealth currently being generated in the Great White North in the energy and mineral industries, which are booming.
Canadians are also, as a rule, healthier than Americans because they eat better and exercise more; also, demographically, they have pursued an immigration policy that tends to yield them a smarter, more industrious, and healthier type of immigrant than the insanity going on on our southern border. The genius of that latter move is that the Canadian authorities have couched that immigration policy in terms of “diversifying” the country – the typical Leftist PC-babble – while at the same time making sure that they get the very best, the cream, of that “diversity” pool. Emergency refugee allowances aside, the Canadian immigration requirement is actually very strict, and they have another advantage, a geographical one, to keep unwanted migrants out: between them and the potential flood of unwanted immigrants from central and South America is this big huge chunk of real estate known as the United States.
So, Canada has been able to finance much of its “socialist” program due to several factors, not one of them having to do with the actual efficacy of Marxist economic doctrine itself: (1) old-fashioned capitalist glut-economics, i.e., mineral and fossil-fuels wealth, which was simply sitting in the ground waiting to be exploited for millions of years; (2) an whip-smart immigration policy that selects for the best of the best from around the world, and tends to work well for Canada; (3) it’s geographic proximity to the United States, for all sorts of reasons. One thing I haven’t mentioned is that Canada pretty much gets a “free ride” in military-related spending because when your next door neighbor is the biggest, baddest, heaviest armed dude on the block, and he’s signed solemn treaties vowing to protect your own abode at his own expense should anyone try to mess with you, you don’t tend to worry too much about financing a huge military infrastructure; (4) the aforementioned recession, and the housing crises, which the article points to.
Ah, actual facts: they tend to sour the Leftist Narrative quite quickly, regardless of the topic under discussion.
July 18th, 2012 at 13:36
Always a ton of excuses for why your ‘inevitable’ predictions don’t pan out.
July 18th, 2012 at 14:29
Ahhhhh, ain’t that cute: after an all-to-brief hiatus due to the factual spanking he recently took in a couple of threads, Denny still didn’t take that time to get his problems solved when it comes to this “debate” thingy. He still (a) either doesn’t read what the post in the screen in front of him actually says, or (b) he simply does not comprehend what the words that make up said posts, once strung together into sentences & paragraphs, actually mean.
Either, or.
In the meantime:
“Always a ton of excuses for why your ‘inevitable’ predictions don’t pan out”
That is non-responsive gibberish, but extrapolating from what it was probably meant to convey is that (1) sometime in the past some conservative somewhere has made some ‘inevitable’ (Sic) prediction that “Socialism” in Canada was going to lead to economic ruin and (2) this article somehow proves the contrary. One can only speculate: when Leftists have nothing with which to refute facts, they get all obscure and start employing follow-the-bouncing-ball logic that ultimately leads to nowhere, save some moronic self-satisfaction that they somehow got the “last word.”
However, shifting through that silly gibberish and extrapolating on what it was supposed to mean, the rejoinder to it boils down to one word: Detroit.
Short, sweet, understandable (even for persons with apparent raging reading comprehension problems) – and irrefutable.
July 18th, 2012 at 17:29
If pointless insults were people, you’d be China.
Canada is working, and–at the moment–working better than the US for its citizens. And it is ‘socialist’, as defined by the most renowned conservative pundits around, whose credentials for articulating the ideology outshine yours like the sun outshines a burnt-out match.
Detroit is not working. The reasons are as varied as there are stars in the sky.
(But multiple excuses are your purview, so I won’t detail them.) But since I don’t live in Detroit, and have no influence over what happens there, I feel no need to defend it.
So have a nice day. Try not to step in your own bile.
July 18th, 2012 at 17:46
Oh, and my hiatus was for a family reunion. Unlike some, I actually have a life outside the internet.
July 18th, 2012 at 19:00
“Detroit is not working. The reasons are as varied as there are stars in the sky”
Hmmmmm. Someone was posturing recently on a discussion board about…well, here just let me quote it: “Always a ton of excuses for why…”
“If pointless insults were people, you’d be China.”
What was it Harry Truman said about the truth-telling being mistaken for hell-giving?
“…outshine yours like the sun outshines a burnt-out match…Unlike some, I actually have a life outside the internet…Try not to step in your own bile.”
Ahhhhh, good ‘ole Luke 4:23: still getting a good workout on the webz since Al Gore invented it. Denny, this is particularly low-hanging fruit, so to speak, even for you.
“So have a nice day”
Right back at yah, Denny; have a great evening.
July 18th, 2012 at 19:27
“What was it Harry Truman said about the truth-telling being mistaken for hell-giving?”
I’m shocked you even know who Truman was, he being a Democrat and all…
Luke doesn’t apply. It’s a matter of complete indifference to me whether you heal yourself, I just wish you’d say something on topic now and then. But vituperation evidently is what our host considers ‘contributing to the discussion’, so preach on, brother…preach on. It’s amusing.
Dormee bien.
July 18th, 2012 at 20:04
Nah, what’s “amusing” is your Projection (“just wish you’d say something on topic now and then. But vituperation…”), your continued non-responsiveness (every reply so far in this thread, among others), and your desperate clawing at that troll-gold, i.e, the precious “last word,” despite having bid me and by clear implication any further interaction with me in this thread adieu (“So have a nice day”).
“Dormee bien”
LOL! So it’s not just classical Latin you’re acquainted with, huh? Google’s got it’s money’s worth out of you, that’s fer sure. Funny stuff.