lawked:

Another utterance on a "blunt" day? :glugglug

TIP: It's kinda embarassing....

Rich,

Respectfully you show pride in your country, that's fine...

If you don't think the US controls the world, who does?

I'm talking all aspects...

I never knew anyone "controls the world"... that's what governments are for... :Graucho

You've got a government in Canada as well you know?

Webby,

Rub one out so you don't have such a hardon for me.

What role does the US play in this world? I only see THEM
stepping up to the plate for almost everything in this world. They control the world economically and numerous things.

Enjoy.

No one country does, obviously. You think the USA controls China? :eek7

Holy shit, you really have no idea about what goes on in the world, do you? This is too funny, keep watching Fox news and thinking it's really unbiased news. Do you really think they have all the World's money? They "step up to the plate" whenever they want something, real peace keeping like in Kosovo is done by the UN.

actually dude for our population we are not doing so bad...the states is roughly 14.5 times our gdp...however in population the states is much more then 14.5 times in size..dpending on available stats..which i dont have..so we can use a range...approx 17-22 times as large in canada.
therefore we are earning much more towards our bottom line per person
and i can see us going through some very rough times at first, but we don't have to trade with anyone..we are totally self reliant in terms of all natural resources required to develop a prosperous nation.

however the states is unable to produce enough electricity and water for it's own populace, that is why we sell it to you, at a very cheap price..that is where the states has power, but rest assured unless ww3 is what you want, and anyone saying the states can just invade canada should think about how the UN and all other world countries including China would view an attack on Canada
anyway to talk about invasion is crazy talk....
now since i really should be kissing your ass as i want to do biz..i will stop my rampage here...lol

oh..and when i eat at mcdonalds in the staes it costs me about 5-7 dollarsamerican...when i eat at mcdonalds here it costs about 5-7 dollars cdn:1orglaugh


hehe

umm...maybe you should stop eating at mcdonalds.

probably a good idea..just pointing out the true value of the american $$$

Why don't you read this http://www.ed.gov/PressReleases/08-2000/wh-0805.html

Canada's population 31.9M
USA's population 280M

so we're less than 10 times smaller.

And the USA are ranked 2nd in the world in terms of earnings per capita, and Canada is 15th. See: http://www.aneki.com/richest.html

hmmm see i didn't have the stats...but i could swear the us population is higher then 280 i had though somewhere close to 500-560

no shit, this is obviously a foriegn lang.

so touchy when your bullshit is called out:1orglaugh

This too... " foriegn" ???/

Should stick to Yiddish.

:321GFY

uh, I was just pointing out how dopey Ms.popup is.
and debating the effects of a trade war.
No, we buy it from you because its cheap. If we WANTED to, we would produce more for ourselves be we americans are shiftless and lazy. we'd rather buy it than make it.

dude, some of my best friends are canadians. :Graucho
hehe, I never let world politics get in the way of business. no matter how wrong you may be. :winkwink:

if your real job was spell checking, perhaps you could put a couple bucks in your pocket.:1orglaugh

Just trying to "come DOWN" to your level....

boy, you're easy to gull.

Their plan of fiscal responsibility can be spelled out as, "looky here billy, we've got more money than we know how to spend"
it had nothing to do with fiscal responsibility.

hahaha, and we're all believing you.:1orglaugh

oh look, another keyboard nobody. how was the day job today little boy?:1orglaugh

OK, no one is allowed to smoke anything illegal (in the US at least) here.

US population : around 290 million
EU population : around 490 million (before the new countries go into effect)

You probably think the whole EU concept is some evil plot...well in part you're right though I don't think it's evil. No way can the international community work with just one major power. The European Union realizes that their *economic bloc* has a potentially significant advantage over the US given the population base (despite the rather unfortunate comments by Berlusconi, which underscores the divisions among Europeans about the EU).

The EU is viewed by many citizens - especially those in poorer countries or former eastern europe in my visit there - is a bad thing. Nevertheless, the impetus of the EU seems to be to create a second superpower to balance out US geopolitics. In Spiegel (major German magazine) I saw a comparison of the EU to the US. What freaked me out was there was a *military* comparison.

If this aspect is even on the minds of a few, it means to me that the US had better straighten up somewhat or risk real isolation at a tremendous cost - economically speaking, without trade, this country will fall apart. Unlike the federal government, the EU is very loosely organized and its rules are more organic and formative than a federal law, which means in the end they can potentially be much more powerful than the US in all arenas.

It's time for the powers that be in the US to apologize for their arrogance in the Iraq War, Kyoto, etc - the very fact they're now thrilled about Polish troops - no offense, they are a minor power - joining in the occupation - is sad because obviously their traditional allies with major muscle are no longer interested in being involved in a war based on..."dodgy" to quote BBC facts.

The big question is, how is it possible given the entire world - even unfriendly countries - gave us huge amounts of sympathy following 9/11, and now our friends are few and far between. The US was a great country. It can be great again. But when Mandela arranges his schedule to leave the country during Bush's visit, that says alot. In 2003 no country can operate on its own economically...

-doug

HAHAHA, you got that right! :1orglaugh

That answer looks familiar :1orglaugh

I would think when ever, and where ever possible the US should buy from within the US.

Also if Mad Cow came from the US I think we would have had a few bad cows, don't you?

Plus the US has no business telling Canada what kind of laws they should or should't have.

Please. Where else will Canada sell those goods for the same profit margin?

soo . . . every other country in the world who gets hit from terrorists groups is lame? and you and your group of loser pud holding friends laughed @ this? I would love nothing more than to have everyone of you dickheads in front of me so i could take out your kneecaps than your elbows and so on til you became limp noodles . . .though I'm pretty sure that's a phrase you hear often enough by your partner, fuckin loser

That sucks