Random Rant Observations of Canada The Red Patched Beaver

If I have to hear one more person drool about the supposed superiority of Canadian society I'm going to make a doughnut. Here are some examples of the awe that is Canada:

- While the intellectually delusional pimps over at the CBC babble about American the short-comings of American society, we hosers have, for example, persisting poverty. How can one explain the inordinate amount of homeless people sleeping in our subways and dancing on our street corners for money? I thought socialism and taxes was supposed to lick the problem.

- Wal-Mart comes into a place with 20% unemployment and we Canadians answer back like rebellious teenagers by trying to organize a union? I was glad to see Wal-Mart close up shop in Quebec after the geniuses here thought they were going to tell the Americans what to do with their money. No wonder we have high unemployment rates. Sorry Quebec, Wal-Mart does not succeed with subsidies and corporate hand-outs.

There is little, if any, use for unions in a modern, technologically advanced economy. Doesn't a former terrorist convicted of murder head one of Quebec's many unions? Canada remains a resource based mercantlist bitch. It sends raw materials to the other real deserved members of the G7 and buys back the finished products at higher prices. Why? Canada does not have a strong and diversified manufacturing base. Sure, there are sprinkles here and there and we do have a decent bio-tech industry but nothing to sustain the country. Canada is an economy that operates on margin. The leverage effect of prospering when the Americans do is great.

In sum, this economy, on a superficial level functions as if it's a power but at the core and center of it, it's nothing but an uninhibited frontier town yet to be discovered and developed. Canada has 9% unemployment in a population base of 30 million. America is 5% out of 300 million. Growth and job creation is superficial here. It's real down there. That's the dirty little secret no one talks about. Scratch our dollar and you see Andrew Jackson.

- Canada is a land where all former mental cases and murderers can retire to. Which brings me to the American army putz who feared was going to be 'persecuted' in America for deserting the U.S army due to his opposition of the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

So, guys like him come up here, with a straight face, to seek refuge. Canada should do the right thing and send them back to the U.S. where, contrary to popular belief, he will be dealt with in a transparent and democratic manner. Even if this wasn't the case it's not our problem. He freely joined the U.S. army, got paid and received an education. His government called upon him. It's not his decision to make. If people like him are allowed to behave in this manner, to its logical end, the army as an institution, will be decimated. Soldiers are not paid to think and question moral epitaphs. They are soldiers. We have enough of these guys here. That's all we need, more of them working for the CBC. *

Canada uses the 'out of sight out of mind' philosophy perfectly. The only difference between our system and the American system is that we give money to a bureaucracy to make social decisions for us. Oooo, real smart.

Is there any ideology more cynical than socialism? They are basically saying humans can't guard themselves because we are inherently uncaring and stupid. It's almost as if socialism is the cousin of cynicism.Talk about under-estimating the human spirit. Socialism is just another way of one group of humans to gain access to billions of dollars created by other other people. It's a facade and it's a power grab. The genius of this 'compassionate' mirage is that they play on your conscience to legitimize their actions.

The problem is that the system does not solve anything. On the surface we look better but scratch a little and its nothing but an ineffective mess. All we do is sweep our mess under a rug. For all the rhetoric and money spent on building a utopian state, Canada has come up short big time. In Canada, we simply wallow in mediocrity. Everything from our entrepreneurial spirit to our civic pride to our dull stagnant political discourse reeks of incestuous ramblings. Can you hear the banjo playing? That's the plain truth.

And no, I do not feel better.

*Note: Canada did determine that Jeremy Hinzman did not have a 'well-founded" fear of prosecution and is not a person "in need of protection" if deported to the United States. In the end, his offense is serious and Canada made the right decision.