Canada Doesn't Want Us

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Re: Canada Doesn't Want Us

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ajax18 wrote:
Sat Jul 18, 2020 2:10 am
Why don't you provide a sanctuary for people like Schmo and take him in once Trump wins again.
Why? If he wants to come to Canada there are ways to make it happen.
It's funny how people talk so much about how they hate the US, how racist we are, how stupid we are, how much damage we've done to the economy. Why are you here? Why aren't you in Canada or Great Britain or some other western European socialist country with open borders with values that mirror your own.
I am in Canada. I like the US. They have been a great country even if it has flaws as do all the others. As to open borders you know little of how it really is or what socialism is and no interest in educating yourself.
I'm sorry but none of us are wealthy enough to just stop going to work and not everyone can find a job online to work from home. I hadn't taken a sick day in 10 years until this ridiculous six week shutdown. It's just not part of my culture. It's unacceptable. No matter how sick we get, we find a way to keep working. That's how we have lived and died with honor. And that culture that you think is so stupid and primitive is what created the wealth that attracted you to this country.
It's funny to watch people talk about how they had it so hard and had to walk uphill both ways to school each day. You've had it quite easy compared to most and you understand little of this virus and what it can do, and how it will negatively affect the economy regardless of what restrictions are put in place. I can fly anywhere in Canada now yet flights are only a quarter of what they were. Most people are still avoiding dine in even though it is open. We are seeing changing behaviors that are affecting the economy that will not change much until this pandemic is over, and we will probably see some permanent changes.
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ajax18 wrote:
Sat Jul 18, 2020 2:10 am
It's funny how people talk so much about how they hate the US, how racist we are, how stupid we are, how much damage we've done to the economy.
I'm not talking about all Americans. I'm talking about the racist idiots damaging our economy. If you think I'm referring to you, what does that tell you?
Why are you here? Why aren't you in Canada or Great Britain or some other western European socialist country with open borders with values that mirror your own.
These are the first valid questions you've asked in a long time (aside from your characterization of border policies). I ask myself daily.
I'm sorry but none of us are wealthy enough to just stop going to work and not everyone can find a job online to work from home. I hadn't taken a sick day in 10 years until this ridiculous six week shutdown. It's just not part of my culture. It's unacceptable. No matter how sick we get, we find a way to keep working. That's how we have lived and died with honor. And that culture that you think is so stupid and primitive is what created the wealth that attracted you to this country.
It's weird how you can write this and not see the obvious contradiction.

So, the way America was over two decades ago, what "attracted" me here, is the wealth most people don't have today, the thing that makes them have to work like slaves to keep going? Is that it? And you tell yourself this is noble because of your supposed work ethic?

You must have loved Ivanka's advice to just find something else, huh? She makes it sound so easy.
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Themis wrote:
Fri Jul 17, 2020 8:57 pm
subgenius wrote:
Fri Jul 17, 2020 8:04 pm
who cares what Canada wants or doesn't want? They keep ripping us off on lumber and we keep them alive...sounds fair enough for them shut up.
Oh one of America's biggest Morons is saying something. :lol:
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ajax18 wrote:
Sat Jul 18, 2020 2:10 am
I hadn't taken a sick day in 10 years until this ridiculous six week shutdown. It's just not part of my culture. It's unacceptable. No matter how sick we get, we find a way to keep working. That's how we have lived and died with honor.
You know, I really, really would prefer a sick optometrist to call me, say he or she is sick, and cancel the appointment. That way:

(a) I won't risk catching whatever it is the optometrist may have. I'm happy to leave the optometrist all the honor attached to any dying there may be; I want none of it.
(b) I won't risk being prescribed for by an optometrist whose ability to evaluate my eyes has been markedly impaired by illness.

Of course I do realise that there are some people for whom the honor attached to any action is directly proportional to the likelihood of resulting fatality, combined with an absence of any obvious benefit resulting therefrom. But I mean, this is business we are talking here, you know. Not Pickett's charge.
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Re: Canada Doesn't Want Us

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Chap wrote:
Sun Jul 19, 2020 4:47 pm
ajax18 wrote:
Sat Jul 18, 2020 2:10 am
I hadn't taken a sick day in 10 years until this ridiculous six week shutdown. It's just not part of my culture. It's unacceptable. No matter how sick we get, we find a way to keep working. That's how we have lived and died with honor.
You know, I really, really would prefer a sick optometrist to call me, say he or she is sick, and cancel the appointment. That way:

(a) I won't risk catching whatever it is the optometrist may have. I'm happy to leave the optometrist all the honor attached to any dying there may be; I want none of it.
(b) I won't risk being prescribed for by an optometrist whose ability to evaluate my eyes has been markedly impaired by illness.

Of course I do realise that there are some people for whom the honor attached to any action is directly proportional to the likelihood of resulting fatality, combined with an absence of any obvious benefit resulting therefrom. But I mean, this is business we are talking here, you know. Not Pickett's charge.
Most workers in the US really can't take an unscheduled sick day more than once or twice a year and expect to be able to keep their job. If I took off every time I got sick, especially the first few years of being up close to people breathing on me all day, I'd have been off work 40 to 50 days per year. Most of the worst ailments I suffered from weren't contagious. Life is very much about being able to play hurt.
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ajax18 wrote:
Mon Jul 20, 2020 1:33 am

Most workers in the US really can't take an unscheduled sick day more than once or twice a year and expect to be able to keep their job. If I took off every time I got sick, especially the first few years of being up close to people breathing on me all day, I'd have been off work 40 to 50 days per year. Most of the worst ailments I suffered from weren't contagious. Life is very much about being able to play hurt.
Do you read what you write?

"Unscheduled sick days"? Do you schedule your sick days?

"40-50 days a year"? You are sick a month and a half to almost two months out of the year? Perhaps you shouldn't be working with the public, let alone so close to mucus membranes and airways.

You remind me of a respiratory therapist I work with. One day (this was pre COVID) he came into work with an obvious upper respiratory infection. I asked him if he was OK. he said he was sure he had "septic strep". I asked if he had seen a doctor.

His exact reply was "I don't believe in that medical science BS"

I was speechless.

The guy is a flat-Earther, a Tumper and a Mormon.
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ajax18 wrote:
Mon Jul 20, 2020 1:33 am
Most workers in the US really can't take an unscheduled sick day more than once or twice a year and expect to be able to keep their job. If I took off every time I got sick, especially the first few years of being up close to people breathing on me all day, I'd have been off work 40 to 50 days per year. Most of the worst ailments I suffered from weren't contagious. Life is very much about being able to play hurt.
In countries run by communists like Boris Johnson, workers in regular employment who fall sick are, with the support of a medical certificate, entitled to paid sick leave.

Yes, I know, that's the kind of thing Stonewall Jackson died to stop happening to the land he loved. And you know, you are probably going to die a few years earlier than you would have done if you had been able to take the time you needed to get better. So you can feel kind of glorious and heroic about sacrificing your life for the good old cause ...
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For those who may be unaware:
The Trump administration slapped punitive tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber in 2017, saying the industry is unfairly subsidized. While the move supports U.S. producers, it adds to costs for domestic builders who get more than a quarter of their lumber from north of the border.
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It is important to note that the "subsidies" Trump is speaking of is something that many construction projects in the US experience. For example, in my particular genre there is a single Canadian company that often bids on projects in the US. They are often capable of providing a significantly lower bid because their government will "make up" the difference through subsidies. These subsidies are typically only available when using Canadian labor on the project which some may argue reflects a protectionist/nationalist market view (*clutches pearls).
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Re: Canada Doesn't Want Us

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subgenius wrote:
Mon Jul 20, 2020 3:00 pm
For those who may be unaware:
The Trump administration slapped punitive tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber in 2017, saying the industry is unfairly subsidized. While the move supports U.S. producers, it adds to costs for domestic builders who get more than a quarter of their lumber from north of the border.
Image

It is important to note that the "subsidies" Trump is speaking of is something that many construction projects in the US experience. For example, in my particular genre there is a single Canadian company that often bids on projects in the US. They are often capable of providing a significantly lower bid because their government will "make up" the difference through subsidies. These subsidies are typically only available when using Canadian labor on the project which some may argue reflects a protectionist/nationalist market view (*clutches pearls).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2 ... er_dispute

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subgenius wrote:
Sun Jul 19, 2020 4:23 pm
Themis wrote:
Fri Jul 17, 2020 8:57 pm


Oh one of America's biggest Morons is saying something. :lol:
you don't always have to announce your posts...we know.
What a classic example of projection on subby's part! Themis is certainly right that people, who like you, who support Trump are abject morons. I and an increasing majority of my fellow U.S. citizens are deeply embarrassed by the presence of people like you and ajax amongst us. Doesn't it deeply embarrass you to know, deep down inside, that there is simply no way to escape or spin away the incontrovertible fact that no nation has botched the response to the coronavirus pandemic more horribly and incompetently than ours, under Dear Leader, Donald J. Trump? I find that very embarrassing, and also that we somehow managed to elect such an idiot!

So much for American exceptionalism! Now, because of Trump, my beloved nation has become a laughing stock, an object of pity, and a pariah to most of the world, including even some of what used to be our closest allies! That's not the kind of exceptionalism to be proud of!
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