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Making Canada Our 51st State Could Make It Easier to Buy American

gtmcduffy,

At first I thought your Dick Cheney idea might work if we changed his name to Richard Duchene, but with that weak heart of his (a pre-existing condition) he would bankrupt our country with his medical bills in no time.

You guys are a bit too socialist for us. You spend hundreds of billions of dollars bailing out incompetently run businesses (i.e. banks and auto industry) for their losses. I like the old America better which was based on Darwinian principals, where the fittest businesses survive and the weak ones don't.

Making Canada Our 51st State Could Make It Easier to Buy American

Gtmcduffy,

Thanks for lining up the nine states for us.
But Canada has a few conditions as well before entering this deal.

1) Need to run a credit check on the US.
2) Need to see if any leading government officials have evaded taxes in the past.
3) We will require a very large bailout payment too. It seems everyone who is big enough requests and usually gets them (banks, auto makers, California, porn industry, etc). Canada is certainly big enough.
4) We don't mind gets occasional visits from Obama, but please keep Hillary (and Bill) in Washington.

Making Canada Our 51st State Could Make It Easier to Buy American

It is understandable why the author would want the US to take over Canada. Looks all its strengths.

1) Socialized medicine takes care of everyone in Canada. In the USA, the rich can afford good doctors, government medicare takes care of the poor and the uninsured middle class (40 million people) is screwed.

2) The banking system in Canada has never failed. If you can't afford to make payments on a home, you never get a mortgage from a bank.

3) Lawyers are NOT given free reign and nuisance lawsuits are rare there.

4) Canada is a resource bonanza; Oil, gas, uranium, gold, silver, nickel, timber, water, electricity, etc.