FYI - I'm Canadian
We learn that American'ts are generally not very bright...
And that many of you take pride in being ignorant
I'm also a Socialist (a constitutional-democratic socialist)
Socialism is a good thing... "the Republic" was a failed form of government 2000 years ago... nothing has changed
My wife and I lived in Williams Lake B.C. many years ago, during our hippie days. We had planned to homestead with another couple. We mostly enjoyed our short stay there, but returned to the U.S. because it was so difficult to find steady work. Most of the work was seasonal and very scarce.
I remember meeting this family, the Pinchbecks. They had nine children and lived in a two room cabin with no running water. They drove a brand new, expensive car. They were nice enough people, but not what I would think of as being particularly bright. Do Canadians still get paid for having children?
Perhaps we were the dumb Americans. We rented a small two bedroom house with running water and oil heat. Some of our new Canadian friends would come over for a visit and a shower, since they didn't have those facilities. Should we have turned them away?
Each morning, regardless of the weather or temperature, there would be many native Canadian Indians lying about in downtown Williams Lake parking lots. They were sleeping off the previous night's binge. Sometimes they would die from exposure, since it gets as cold as -40 degrees in the winter in Williams Lake.
Many of the children in Williams Lake had really bad teeth. When I asked about this, I was told that the government provides dentures so why bother taking care of your teeth.
Some folks who owned large parcels of land worried about losing it to the government because of the high inheritance tax there. Has this changed?
There was a lot of prejudice in Williams Lake, B.C. against East Indians who were significant part of the population there. They also owned many of the small businesses. It seemed like they were doing better than a lot of native Canadians.
Do you Canadians still say, "God save the Queen" as you did when we lived there?
