time to save the American Government's finances.

[jonathankaplan]

I had intended to list the planks one by one, but first, it will make less sense, and seem less cohesively thought out, if I do it that way, so here are the main planks affecting Finance

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[pfrimshot]

- "this merger benefits everyone"

This would benefit Canada how, exactly?

[adb_jaeger]

You got your hockey medal. Time to pay!

[pfrimshot]

You can have it, if you can win it. I encourage you to try ('cause that game was a lot of fun to watch!)

[adb_jaeger]

Yes, yes it was. I can't believe Bettman is still on the fence about 2014.

[pfrimshot]

considering that was the best possible scenario for him... two NA teams in the gold final, on a sunday, in the last big-ticket show in the olympics, and the most marketable player in the NHL scores the OT winner. He should be begging the IOC to let them play in Sochi.

[adb_jaeger]

and the most marketable player in the NHL scores the OT winner

That site is so rigged.

[jonathankaplan]

'smile

[pfrimshot]

#0) (An invasion of Canada). So who exactly is preventing the invasion of Australia? How about Iceland?
#1) You could say that about a hundred countries. Should they all join the US? Give us 50 years and Canada's economy (with its lowest debt ratio in the G7) will be strong enough to weather the US collapse. It will hurt, but the pain is something most Canadians would gladly endure if it means not being annexed.
#2) I would love a western secession. Much more than I'd welcome annexation.
#3) Yeah... maybe we win that one, maybe we lose it. No reason to give up our sovreignty.
#4) Our economy, not to mention our resources, put us in a much better long term position than the US. Just because there are leaks in our boat doesn't mean we should moor ourselves to the ship that just hit the iceberg.

(and.. I actually live in California, but I'm a BC boy.)

[jonathankaplan]

I think you are too sanguine about Canada's prospects, but none of it looks unreasonable to me, and probably is the way the politics will go.

0) Who even WANTED Australia? Canada (historically) was a much bigger prize. And I would say that the US/British alliance is what protected Australia for much of that time, even if anyone could have been found to want it.

2) I understand. Will the politicians in the East agree with you?

3) Fair enough.

4) Perhaps. Love the imagery.

You could live in BC easily but you choose to live in California....smile....That says something right there.

Thanks!

[pfrimshot]

Yes it does, and I concede that point.

But it also says I'm opportunistic; I'm in California because I got the perfect job offer. I could work in Vancouver, but it wouldn't be _this_ job. My heart is really in Victoria, but the work there would be terrible.

I expect that sometime in the future, I will take what experience and wealth I have earned in CA and move back to BC. I would be dismayed if it were a state and not a province.