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(4,253 posts)when the druggies and money launderers who live downstairs are looking into our banking accounts.
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/irs-demanding-foreign-banks-turn-over-private-information/
Eritrea, citizens are shot if they try and leave the country and, if they make it out alive, local embassies extort expats for every dime they have to fill the coffers of the bankrupt regime. Luckily, things are a little bit easier for U.S. taxpayers overseas. As an American business-owner abroad, I only have 65 pages of IRS forms to fill out every year on top of taxes in my country of residency.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)Canadians are not money launderers The USA is the world's biggest money launderers...Look at the Post Office box "residents" in Delaware, Nevada and Wyoming and Florida...those are your tax havens.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)And I think any accusation you base on Glenn Beck is bullshit.
riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)Tax evaders.
Romney is a money launderer. He paid no taxes for 10 years so I read.
Perhaps I should not have put the blanket on every American.. just like there should not be a blanket on every american who lives abroad as tax evaders, fair?
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Citing his website is like quoting Fox "News".
pampango
(24,692 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)You can see we are a good country...We want to hold onto our values. our sovereignty.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)and keep your Keystone pipeline out of here.
Canada has virtues, but that Halo she once had has gotten a LOT of tarnish.
riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)many will not be voting for him or his party this time around
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)and if I seem harsh, I remember how many times I told people that Bush did nto represent us, only to have some gleefull Canucks on this very board throw mud at me and say all Yanks deserved lots of pain. Now, thanks to keystone and harper, the mask that many canadians hid behind is slipping, and frankly, I am smiling.
arikara
(5,562 posts)but I know most of us Canadians especially on this board felt bad for you. We saw those elections were stolen and knew Bush wasn't your fault, anymore than Harper is our fault. Harper won a majority with 38% of the popular vote. Shifty things went on in key ridings that turned the vote in his favour. Our election, although not as obviously as yours was stolen too and we will have as big or bigger mess to clean up after he is gone.
So gloating about it just because some asshole offended you doesn't become you, we are in as much pain here as you were.
Thank you for the empathy, and may we both work together to save North America from the abyss.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)and we love it. We love our one payer health care. and our clean abundant water that is not a commodity. We are bilingual and use the metric system..
We want to keep our sovereignity.
We are not money launderers and we pay our taxes, which are higher than yours but we have really good health care for All.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I want you to preserve your sovereignty too. Don't agree to the TPP.
riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)I do not want the TPP either. We are trying , we are small, but the numbers are growing.
Those who keep quiet are doomed
RC
(25,592 posts)You don't have a big, corrupt world wide Military Industrial Complex, war machine to maintain. Whenever I visited, I could see excellent museums, for example. Your health care is much better there. TV news shows actually had news, not what they wanted you to think. The people themselves were friendlier and more than a tad bit less suspicious of strangers.
And then your guns! Your guns were NOT everywhere, as is the case down here. The local news shows did not lead off with the latest shooting/murder/police brutality.
riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)Yes our taxes are a bit higher and we do get our health care paid by them. Which we all appreciate.
The Military Industrial Complex is very expensive to maintain and unfortunately what I see only a tiny percent take the most money from the profits.
Canadians are polite and like to be that way..
I myself have an arms license , not hand gun, and had to go through a RCMP check. and it is reviewed and applied for every few years.
OUr news too by the way is not allowed to report lies...Fox News would not be allowed up here to report the way they do down in the USA. .
Many of us are trying very hard to keep our sovereignty.
There are many nice Americans but your gun situation is now a deterrent for visiting.
RC
(25,592 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)and it's not as ethnically diverse as the U.S.
JBoy
(8,021 posts)Ethnic Groups
Canada:
White: 83.5%
Asian: 10.5%
Native: 3.7%
Black: 2.3% (2006 est.)
US:
White: 81.2%
Black: 13.1%
Asian: 4.7%
Native: 1.0% (2008)
riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)Number23
(24,544 posts)Black or African American alone, percent definition and source info Black or African American alone, percent, 2012 (a) 13.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent definition and source info American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent, 2012 (a) 1.2%
Asian alone, percent definition and source info Asian alone, percent, 2012 (a) 5.1%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, percent definition and source info Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, percent, 2012 (a) 0.2%
Two or More Races, percent definition and source info Two or More Races, percent, 2012 2.4%
Hispanic or Latino, percent definition and source info Hispanic or Latino, percent, 2012 (b) 16.9%
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent definition and source info White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent, 2012 63.0%
But that's confusing as the top number has white alone at 78% but the bottom number has white alone at 63%.
The 63% number is much more in line with what I've been hearing for years. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/percentage-non-hispanic-whites-hits-all-time-63-article-1.1371772
pampango
(24,692 posts)While their population is small compared to the US, it is not small by world standards (#37 out of 200+).
You are right about California. Immigrants are 27% of the population there.
riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)after NYC..I love Toronto. and its diversity
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Auggie
(31,186 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)kristopher
(29,798 posts)http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-02/canada-at-crossroads-in-bid-to-become-energy-superpower.html
A tailings pond at a Syncrude Canada Ltd. mining site near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, on Aug. 13, 2013.
Canadas bid to become what Prime Minister Stephen Harper calls an energy superpower is at risk as approval delays for new pipelines threaten an industry already hurt by high costs and rival production.
The worlds sixth-largest crude producer cant get its surging crude supplies to markets in Asia where prices are higher than in North America. Decisions in the next year or so on proposed pipelines designed to connect oil-sands production to supertankers on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts may set the tone for the future of the nations energy industry.
Theres no doubt that over the next 12 to 24 months, there will be some significant decisions made on pipelines infrastructure in Canada, Ian Anderson, president of the Canadian division of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP, said in a Nov. 29 interview in Lake Louise, Alberta. Whats important about the time frame is, theres a window of opportunity here to build this infrastructure. ...
http://grist.org/climate-energy/proud-moment-the-u-s-is-no-longer-the-worlds-biggest-jerk-on-climate-change/
What stood out most about the United States role in the United Nations climate talks that just wrapped in Warsaw, Poland, was how little the United States stood out.
While the U.S. is used to being the bad guy or at least one of them in the international climate arena, this year the Americans seemed perfectly happy to keep their heads down, quietly do their business, and let other big polluters take the punches.
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If you want to look at the Fossil awards as a reasonably good metric for analyzing the true bad guys in these climate talks and, really, its the best tool I can think of then the U.S. wasnt even in the bottom five. Among the countries with worse Fossil showings: Australia, Poland, Canada, Japan, India, Saudi Arabia, and China...
(Thanks to xchrome for these contributions to the DUEE group)
arikara
(5,562 posts)because Harper is changing our country as fast as he can.