A Canadian Top 10 List

Posted by Kimbell 10 years, 4 months ago to Government
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A Canadian Top 10 List ----- A MUST READ

Canadian's Version of David Letterman's Top 10
Just makes you wanna shake your head in disbelief.
This is Canada's Top Ten List of America's Stupidity
Of course we look like idiots .... because we are.

Number 10 Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 per plate Obama campaign fund-raising event.

Number 9 Only in America ...could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General and roughly 20% of the federal workforce is black while only 14% of the population is black 40+% of all federal entitlements goes to black Americans - 3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to Hispanics!

Number 8 Only in America...could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner (the head of the Treasury Department) and Charles Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.

Number 7 Only in America...can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.

Number 6 Only in America...would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become American citizens (probably should be number one).

Number 5 Only in America....could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as EXTREMIST’S.

Number 4 Only in America...could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

Number 3 Only in America...could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. Oil company(Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).

Number 2 Only in America... could you collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.

And Number 1 Only in America...could the rich people- who pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.

PLEASE DON'T KEEP THIS - SEND IT OUT TO YOUR ENTIRE LIST.


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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 4 months ago
    This ought to be a stump speech for an outside-the-Beltway political candidate who agrees with AR values. What a great summary of how ****** up America is right now. Twenty-five years ago when I lived in Michigan, people used to joke about the Canadians were coming to America because of the delays in the Canadian healthcare system. We are now far less conservative than Canada is. I may have to move to the Great White North. Well, maybe only in the summers.
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    • Posted by khalling 10 years, 4 months ago
      It 's a great laundry list but I am skeptical a Canadian wrote it. One giveaway is 8. refers to "our taxcode."
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      • Posted by LibertasAutLetum 10 years, 4 months ago
        I saw through it right away. This was written by an American. No doubt written with good intent, although a little troll-like to do so...
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        • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 4 months ago
          Even if it wasn't written in Canada, this post sums up the state of America pretty well right now.
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          • Posted by straightlinelogic 10 years, 4 months ago
            Why the writer chose to disguise him or herself as a Canadian is beyond me. It's a fine list, whatever the nationality of the writer.
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            • Posted by $ Susanne 10 years, 4 months ago
              Does it matter who wrote it or where? It's pretty damned accurate. Of course, the neosocialist entitlement moocher crowd would try to shoot holes in it... because of the truth it speaks.

              Of course the author would claim to be Canadian, because were they claiming to be an American, the author would be arrested under some "interesting" terrorism charges (complete with "evidence"), put under the infamous DHS microscope and spotlight, and would never see the light of day again.
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  • Posted by Lucky 10 years, 4 months ago
    Kimball- very good. Unfortunately, the 'Only in America' is wrong.
    Australia scores under at least 7 of those headings.
    The current almost-conservative government is not as bad as the previous lefties but the press is the same.
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    • Posted by 10 years, 4 months ago
      At least the Australians are waking up and doing something about it. I think we Americans need to stop bitching and get positive about the country and the good people in it, and fix it this election as the Australians did hopefully. I can't see how running away will solve anything. In AS, they didn't run away, they stood back and waited for the opportunity to take country back. Hopefully we don't have to go that far and can end this insanity. I think a bit of humor is needed also.
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