Limited PvP -> PvE Free Character Transfers
Mythic+ Dungeon Adjustments - 27 April
The War Within Alpha - The Ringing Deeps Main Story Quest Preview
Did Blizzard just hotfix an ilvl requirement onto Awakened LFR?
MMO-Champion
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...than-u-s-.html
For the first time ever, the average net worth of a Canadian household is higher than the average net worth of a US household.
Canada: $363,202
US: $319,970
Their unemployment rate has also dropped to 7.2% while it remains stagnant in the US at 8.2%.
This can be attributed to a number of factors including but not limited to: financial regulation, socialist-leaning policies, the disallowance of banks to merge, "brutal" cuts to social programs, cutting corporate taxes, and of course, an abundance of natural resources.
It seems like Canada has taken ideas that both Democrats and Republicans like, though not mutually, and implemented them to great success.
So what can the US learn from Canada?
Recent Blue Posts
Recent Forum Posts
-
2012-07-23, 08:49 PM #1The Lightbringer
- Join Date
- Apr 2011
- Location
- Connecticut, USA
- Posts
- 3,597
"Hardheaded Socialism Makes Canada Richer than US"
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
-
2012-07-23, 08:53 PM #2Epic!
- Join Date
- Dec 2010
- Posts
- 1,526
What works for a country of roughly 34million people wont necessarily work for a country of 310million...
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
-
2012-07-23, 09:08 PM #3The Undying
- Join Date
- Jul 2012
- Location
- Στην Κυπρο
- Posts
- 32,390
"brutal" cuts to social programs, cutting corporate taxes,
Socialism?
-
2012-07-23, 09:13 PM #4Stood in the Fire
- Join Date
- Jan 2011
- Posts
- 409
The workers took control of the means of production in Canada?
-
2012-07-23, 09:16 PM #5Void Lord
- Join Date
- Jan 2010
- Posts
- 59,641
This smells like a no true scottsman
Originally Posted by Shadoweye
-
2012-07-23, 09:17 PM #6The Unstoppable Force
- Join Date
- Sep 2009
- Posts
- 24,638
lol we're socialist now?
-
2012-07-23, 09:19 PM #7The Lightbringer
- Join Date
- Apr 2011
- Location
- Connecticut, USA
- Posts
- 3,597
Thread title is the title of the article linked. Originally Posted by Kalis
And you missed a word. Hardheaded. Read the article. It clearly states that Canadas success is not just a result of their socialist leaning policies but also fiscal conservatism.It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
-
2012-07-23, 09:20 PM #8Immortal
- Join Date
- Jan 2009
- Location
- Quel'Thalas
- Posts
- 7,034
didn't you know, any country that isn't the US or Singapore is a communist socialist nightmare... Originally Posted by TradewindNQ
Theron/Bloodwatcher 2013!
Originally Posted by Alsompr
-
2012-07-23, 09:20 PM #9Immortal
- Join Date
- Oct 2009
- Posts
- 7,569
Yeah I was like wtf when I read that one. Anyways blame it on Oil sands and most of a families net worth being tied into their home, so housing market goes to shit and TADA the Canucks are "richer" now. Originally Posted by Kalis
I would live in Canada in a heartbeat. Legal weed + everyone is nice as shit. Cold weather sucks, but global warming is taking care of that. If Romney gets elected I had considered moving up there since he will have us at war with Iran, Syria, Russia, and China within a year.
-
2012-07-23, 09:20 PM #10The Lightbringer
- Join Date
- Apr 2011
- Location
- Connecticut, USA
- Posts
- 3,597
Who said that? Originally Posted by TradewindNQ
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
-
2012-07-23, 09:24 PM #11I Don't Work Here
- Join Date
- Feb 2010
- Location
- Ottawa, ON
- Posts
- 79,267
Again; two definitions of "socialism".
There's political socialism, which is concerned with the welfare of the citizens. Any country that has nationalized health care, unemployment programs, etc is "socialist" by this definition, including the US.
There's also economic socialism, which is where workers own the means of production. This means things like co-ops and factories owned by the unionized workers. If you want a simple distinction to make; credit unions are socialist, banks are capitalist.
If you're thinking of anything other than the above two, you're not talking about "socialism". If you're thinking of authoritarian governments, or communist nations, or anything along those lines, you need to stop drinking the kool-aid and learn what words mean.
Also, more on-topic, you forgot to mention that we also have significantly less national debt, per capita.
-
2012-07-23, 09:25 PM #12Merely a Setback
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Location
- Sarif Industries, Detroit
- Posts
- 29,063
First its "it doesn't work!" Then it becomes "Oh well, it won't work for us." Originally Posted by Shadoweye
Putin khuliyo
-
2012-07-23, 09:26 PM #13Herald of the Titans
- Join Date
- Mar 2012
- Location
- Ultimate Magic World
- Posts
- 2,883
Duly noted. Originally Posted by Puremallace
Men!
Originally Posted by LilSaihah
Now having a ball on SWTOR!
-
2012-07-23, 09:26 PM #14Scarab Lord
- Join Date
- Feb 2011
- Posts
- 4,030
Canada is rich because of wood and metal.
The same logic explains why Australia (metal) and Middle Eastern countries (oil) are rich.
US doesn't farm its own natural resources anymore (at large scale).
-
2012-07-23, 09:27 PM #15Stood in the Fire
- Join Date
- Jan 2011
- Posts
- 390
Socialism and Communism are not the same thing. Let's just throw that out there before people start equating the two with one another.
-
2012-07-23, 09:28 PM #16Deleted
What's so bad in being socialist that so many people jump? It's not communism. It's just that the state takes more care of people and tries to balance incomes more. So when a country has a healthcare system payed by everyone as a tax, that's socialism. When a country has a system where everyone pays their own healthcare alone, and if you don't have money you die, that's not socialism. Even your dear USA has socialist measures, some countries have more though.
-
2012-07-23, 09:28 PM #17High Overlord
- Join Date
- Oct 2010
- Location
- In the pub.
- Posts
- 135
Canada is a socialist country? must have missed the memo on that. Just because a country has some government run programs such as health care, etc it doesn't make a country socialist. By those standards you could label the whole western world (excluding the USA) as socialist...
What can the USA learn from Canada? Same thing it can learn from most countries; having a political system that isn't completely polarized. The USA really needs a third major political party.
-
2012-07-23, 09:30 PM #18DeletedBecause they farm the resources of others? It doesn't change they're filled with resources. USA is a rich country, rich as hell. Don't get me that "oh, poor USA, we don't farm our resources anymore like those evil Canadians and others, and now they're more rich then us!" Originally Posted by yurano
-
2012-07-23, 09:30 PM #19The Undying
- Join Date
- Jul 2012
- Location
- Στην Κυπρο
- Posts
- 32,390
I wasn't having a dig at you, the author of that article needs a dictionary. Canada's policies aren't socialist, they are a mix of centre-right amd centre-left. the author could just have easily said 'hardheaded conservatism'. Originally Posted by Deadvolcanoes
-
2012-07-23, 09:30 PM #20I Don't Work Here
- Join Date
- Feb 2010
- Location
- Ottawa, ON
- Posts
- 79,267
Hell, even a left-wing party would be an interesting change. Originally Posted by Seme
And before anyone says "Democrats", the Democrats have been moderately right-wing for decades, on the global scale. "Slightly less right-wing" is not the same as "left-wing".
Reply With Quote
