moosebump

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

Maybe it should be the other way round? Canada should make a bid for the US. The timing is right. The US stock has never been cheaper. Of course we would be assuming trillions of dollars in consumer, government and financial industry debt.
It would be a win for Americans...
-they would get a nice mature universal health care system instead of waiting to see what the Dems come up with
-crime rates would drop because hand guns would be banned
-since Americans would still need their fix of violence, we could teach them how to really love hockey
-we could teach them fiscal restraint - good cautious Canadians would never buy a 100% debt financed house with a negative am mortgage even if we believed "real estate never falls" in price
-no more Wall Street greed problem - we would move it to Bay Street
-more colourful money
-we could divert billions of dollars from launching wars into peacekeeping (cleaning up the mess of previous wars)
-Americans could now legitimately wear the Maple Leaf when travelling overseas