Lots of LBC hidden here - read on and weep.
It's all true except that Gordon Sinclair, the last canadian
public defender of our US neighbour, has been dead for about 20
years (obviously before the Airbus). Gord was one of canada's last
"politically incorrect" free spirits. Those of us left who still
are Yankee supporters are up against a chorus of canadian
nationalists who are really nothing more than closet knee jerk
anti-americans.
Up here we have hillary's health care system which is crumbling
under bureaucratic inefficiency but which we pay dearly for. The
canadian fed and provincial income tax rate tops out at 55% in
most provinces. After that massive grab, everything you buy
(except non served food and medicine) has 15% to 18% sales tax
(except Alberta is at 8%). A standard bottle of Smirnoff's runs
around $40 and don't ask about our price of gas which is sold by
the f-quart for good reason. And what - no tax deduction on your
home mortgage interest? Capital gains runs at about 75% of your
income tax rate. After a typical divorce and then conversion to US
dollars I doubt a typical canadian keeps 10 cents of his original
dollar earned.
Compulsory no fault socialist anti-car insurance schemes prevent
anyone from affording to legally drive a collection of old cars
and bikes larger than two. You buy a plate or two and swap them
around. Why else would they impose a $25,000 maximum penalty for
driving without insurance?
When you buy a used vehicle and show up to do the ownership
transfer you need to bring -
- A vendors package ($25) which gives the buyer some lien and
mileage comfort
- A clean air certificate with which the approved garages are
having a field day and a few canucks have responded with equally
devious methods of engine doctoring. But the oil burners more than
20 years old are exempt. So all a sudden a 21 year old car is
worth something and a 19 year old nothing.
- An insurance certificate which is often worth more than the nuts
and bolts you acquired.
- A bill of sale which means nada because the provincial sales tax
is computed on government blue books unless you bring a signed
professional appraisal saying for example "engine missing". If
you buy a used car from a dealer there is also fed sales tax
(called the GST)
- Last but not least the transfer of ownership.
You cannot plate the new vehicle without all the above so after
the typical purchase tow it home or drive it and break the law.
In Quebec you can even go to jail for putting an English sign on
your business premises. That one is on the Amnesty International
list of things to go after. It takes a year up here to get a
carrying permit, unless you're a crook - and felon suspects are
never physically identified because it might affect some minority.
Damn, I'm off topic now...
Yeah, just tons of good reasons to bash the Yanks.
Shoot low they may be crawling.
AN510426
----- Original Message -----
From Elliott, Patrick <patrick.elliott at attws.com>
To: 'Spridgets' <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: January 26, 2000 7:54 PM
Subject: America the good neighbor No LBC what so ever.
> Not sure if the source is true. But I thought I'd pass it on
full all the
> patriots on the list.
>
>
>
> This comes from a Canadian newspaper:
>
> Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to
a
> remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair,
a
> Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text
of his
> trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record.
>
> America: The Good Neighbor.
> "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans
as the
> most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all
the earth.
> Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were
lifted out of
> the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of
dollars and
> forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is
today paying
> even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
>
> When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the
Americans who
> propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled
on the
> streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
>
> When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States
that hurries in
> to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by
tornadoes.
> Nobody helped.
>
> The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of
dollars into
> discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are
writing about
> the decadent, warmongering Americans.
>
> I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating
over the
> erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does
any other
> country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet,
the
> Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas 10? If so, why don't they fly
them? Why do
> all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes?
>
> Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or
woman on the
> moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios.
You talk
> about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk
about American
> technocracy, and you find men on the moon-not once, but several
times--and
> safely home again.
>
> You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in
the store
> window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are
not pursued
> and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them,
unless they are
> breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and
pa at home
> to spend here.
>
> When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking
down through
> age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the
Pennsylvania railroad
> and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old
caboose. Both
> are still broke.
>
> I can name you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help
of other
> people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone
else raced to
> the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help
even during
> the San Francisco earthquake.
>
> Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is
damned tired
> of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this
thing with
> their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb
their nose at
> the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope
Canada is
> not one of those."
> Stand proud, Americans.
>
>
>
>
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