garce

No offense, but the U.S. abandoned that option when it started doing business with China and sucking oil-filled Saudi cock. The U.S. literally has no choice but to do business with countries that openly laugh at not only your property rights ( a VERY minor consideration), but your laws - and even the very Constitution that your country was built upon.

Disagree? Have your government openly tell China, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan (et al) to fuck off and eat shit. That oughta work out well...

The only option the U.S. has left open to it is to play the "big bad bully" and go after private citizens, foreign nationals, and smaller corporations and companies. The U.S. will NEVER go after big international interests or multinational corporations, let alone any foreign government that's not already an ally. Allies will agree to many of your requests. Ask Pakistan or China for the odd concession, though.

Anyone from China could literally reproduce anything produced in the States and sell it right back to you without repercussion. Cars will be coming soon enough. You can already buy Chinese made pre-fab houses.

The only people who'll get busted are the poor idiots selling the bootleg DVDs and BluRays at flea markets, the small businesses importing toys covered in lead based paints, or the pretentious idiots hosting files uploaded by the general public. The manufacturers of these products will continue - for the most part - to keep producing the shit and selling it right back at you.

A major exception is dog food. Its ok to kill people with dangerous products. Don't fuck with our dogs, though... Seriously. Don't fuck with my dog.

And its no different in Canada. Every minute Canada sends more money to "nations" that should not even be allowed to exist than any of us will make in a year. The federal government is the single largest employer in this country. Anyone who thinks that THAT's a good thing should be shot.

The world is fucked and everyone is too busy kissing ass and arguing over irrelevant shit to fix it. I love The United States of America, but your politicians are too busy arguing about God and gay marraige to fucking realize that the whole Empire is done.

Canada, on the other hand, will be fine as long as it continues to tax its citizens to death (gotta pay for those golden bureaucratic pensions and benefits somehow!), and as long as we continue to allow DeBeers and other multinationals to freely suck every last resource out of the depths of this once great country.

Without the U.S. bailing us out, we're going to end up a massive, very cold version of Haiti. Barren, dead, and starving. A couple hundred years, tops. Then we'll have nothing left. No diamonds. No oil. No seals. No trees. No fish. No taxpayers.

No point.

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