CANADA should be annexed by the US

I worked for a start up out of Canada once, and would have to go up there once a month for meetings.

Their exec were constantly telling me "we're just like you Americans, eh?"

Not kidding.

And our office was button down, totally focused on getting their beach head in the states working.

Meanwhile, at their offices, there was gossip mongering, pot smoking, execs wives sleeping with other execs, cheating going on in full view of underlings at the Christmas party, financial excess and malfeasance, and more pot smoking. Tons of childishness going on.

Meanwhile, my boss had a completely orderly office, and desk, with one book on it. "The Christian Book of Business Management."

I stayed friends with him after I moved on and up, and found out the following, he visited prostitutes, had a gambling addiction, and naturally owed money to tons of friends (tried to borrow from me...what boss tries to borrow money from a junior exec???). I stopped being his friend two years ago when he confessed to wiretapping (I kid you not) his girlfriend.

Meanwhile, off he goes to church every Sunday.

Back to Canadians, based on that subset, no, they aren't "just like us."

You can find strange people all over, the happiest healthiest people I ever met were in Holland and Denmark...of course they have the odd serial killer etc.

Humans, we're a biomass.

We don't need to annex Canada. We've already adopted them (See: Cam Levins [but not Ben 1.0]).

Do Calgary, Banff, Whistler, and Vancouver really feel like a foreign country? Not to me they don't. And I, from SoCal, can hate the BC drivers just as much as the entire population of Alberta.

Vancouver = LA without freeways.

Seriously, if you're American and Canadians aren't your favorite people outside the USA there's something wrong with you.

Seriously, if you're American and Canadians aren't your favorite people outside the USA there's something wrong with you. (quote)

As you are both products of the British Empire and its colonial policies and as the transplanted culture of Britain has been one of humankinds most successful experiments - of course you feel a common affinity.

Mexico has already annexed the US. They have taken over the United States without an army by simply moving in and taking over, and we generously paid for it by feeding them, housing them, educating them and providing health care.

Sure, they did jobs that "we wouldn't do" but now they have also taken jobs that we would do. Try getting a job as a bank teller if you're not bilingual. Can't do it. Money talks. Banks want everybody's money.

Used to be homeless American drifters could always find work on farms. That's why they drifted and how John Steinbeck got all his ideas.

The Mexicans were brought in during world war 2 because they sent all the farm workers off to fight. I've picked grapes before, on an American crew. The vineyard owners hated us because the Mexicans worked twice as fast. Grapes are picked with scissors, and at the speed the Mexicans pick, you'll cut your fingers off if you haven't got years of experience. Plus they've got the whole thing unionized so farms will face repercussions if they hire non-migrants.

Now there are no jobs for homeless Americans. It's ridiculous to think a dumpster diver wouldn't want a better paying job like farm labor.

Slowpuke wrote:

We would then be called the US of Eh?

Well played, sir/ma'am.

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"and providing health care. "

Lol, American Medicare? Lies.

TOTALLY funny! You lost the war In Iraq and Afghanistan...Newfoundland alone would easily kick your stupid ass.