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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:01 am Post subject: |
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Tiger Beer wrote: |
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You don't remember the Trudeau years where Canadians were being called communists by many Americans for having social programs and universal health care? The resentment stems from there. But nowadays, it can probably be attributed to the American governments apparently deliberate attempts to undermine the relations between the two countries. |
More steroetypes again.. Americans are against universal healthcare and social programs. While DC might not promote it nationwide, it doesn't mean that all kinds of differnet states don't have all kinds of different social programs - because they do.
Northern states in the U.S. have social programs up the ying-yang. Michigan was strongly more labor-related and everything else to such strong measures, jobs actually moved to Ontario where the labor laws (for the poor people) were a lot more lenient and could be exploited a lot easier. I guess Ontario didn't protect their people enough, so jobs and plants were moved there a lot more easily. Some communist system that was, huh?
Would be funny to hear Michigan people calling Canadians the commies.. but okay.. yeah, if you read some newspaper way down in the Deep South somewhere.. maybe someone once referred to Canadians as communists causing a social uproar throughout Canada and triggered this mass resentment and anger towards individual Americans wherever they may live and regardless of their individual beliefs or commie city - Seattle, Boston, New York, San Francisco, wherever. |
I'm talking about the past. Trudeau has been dead for years. |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:06 am Post subject: |
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Man I swear I made a post in this thread..
I thought stupidity was a great documentary, I think this show will be good as well. How about just watching the movie before jumping into polictal name calling and slandering. |
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Pligganease

Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: The deep south...
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 3:29 am Post subject: |
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Wrench wrote: |
Man I swear I made a post in this thread..
I thought stupidity was a great documentary, I think this show will be good as well. How about just watching the movie before jumping into polictal name calling and slandering. |
I saw your post. It was on another thread, and I just thought you wer stoned.  |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:55 am Post subject: |
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How about just watching the movie before jumping into polictal name calling and slandering. |
From viewing the trailer, it looks pretty self-congratulatory. |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 6:08 am Post subject: |
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Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
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How about just watching the movie before jumping into polictal name calling and slandering. |
From viewing the trailer, it looks pretty self-congratulatory. |
To me it looked like it was going to be both american and Canadian bashing as far as I am concerned. |
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