Tell Stupie Stevie that I studied the Canada Health System AND MOST OF ITS FUNDING COMES FROM INCOME TAXES.
The Canadian taxes on liquor, cigarettes and other such health destroying items are, as I recall, set at a level that offsets the cost to their health care system from the consumption of those, I'm not sure exactly where the money from those is allocated but they, obviously, wouldn't be enough to fund the great Canadian health care system. Clearly the Canadians have more sense and, more importantly, a sense of justice in such matters than the United States. The extent to which they benefitted from adopting their constitution two centuries after the one the United States is insanely saddled with and, so, could learn from our many and massive mistakes which we have yet to learn from, is worth considering as to why we're stuck whereas they haven't been. Though the disease of corporatism is catching and if Canadians aren't careful they'll get duped out of their health care system, "free speech" and, especially "free press" will be the means of talking them out of it.
Update: I was curious to see what I could find out about how the liquor taxes in Canada are allocated. While I have yet to find a succinct account of that, I did come across this interesting and informative pamphlet, Reducing Alcohol -Related Harm in Canada, which pretty much supports a lot of what I said, especially about the role the media plays in promoting alcohol abuse and the use of taxation to change behavior and, obviously, as a means of funding the many educational proposals in it.
Update 2: If Goebbels had been Simels
"All those lies, they were jokes. It's not my fault you guys didn't get them. "
Oh, blow it out your ass, Sparky. I actually know Canadians.
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah, someone coming from the great self-absorbed New York City area is so likely to know more Canadians than a Catholic from Maine who grew up in a French speaking parish and who learned French from people from Quebec and New Brunswick. You stick to Seinfeld and Woody, I'll stick to La Société Radio-Canada and CBC 1 and 2.
ReplyDeleteYou mean they don't speak English in Canada? How come I understand all the lyrics on my Guess Who CDs?
ReplyDeleteYou obviously don't even know enough about Canada to understand that the CBC is the English version of what La Société Radio-Canada is in French. But I'll bet you could give a summary of every movie about white New Yorkers that Woody Allen ever made about white people in New York.
DeleteEven better, I can give you a summary of every episode of DUDLEY DO-RIGHT.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the vestigial remnants, the few, the mightily thinking highly of themselves, your public, the great Eschaton brain trust finds that a clever thing to say.
ReplyDeleteI can claim to have listened to all of The Great Eastern and North of 60, in English and French, not to mention Les Enquêtes de Murdoch, Les Plouffe, ... And that's not to mention having read much if not most of Morely Callaghan, Earle Birney.... I once set a large portion of "David" to music, I thought it would make a good dramatic oratorio but decided that Birney's music was too strong to set to music.
You are an ignorant idiot, your fellow rump of Eschatots won't tell you so I will.
I actually know Americans! This makes me an expert on American tax laws! Or at least deeply knowledgeable.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I actually know New Yorkers and their being such an insular bunch, I can imagine "I actually know Canadians" would probably be counted as conferring expertise among them.
DeleteBTW, only out of towners watched SEINFELD.
ReplyDeleteI think you forgot to claim "I actually know out of towners" before you claim that.
DeleteYour propensity to lie doesn't do anything to make me wonder if I have misunderstood you. You're not very complicated.
Lie, in your parlance, is defined as "any joke I (Sparky) don't get."
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ReplyDelete"If Goebbels had been Simels
"All those lies, they were jokes. It's not my fault you guys didn't get them. "
As I said yesterday, I have my flaws like everybody else, but that seems like something of a stretch, don't you think?
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I said "if Goebbels had been Simels" not "if Simels had been Goebbels. If he were you it's exactly what he'd have said, it's what you said.
DeleteOh god, you're so stupid you actually went for it!!!!
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!
You're so stupid you just confirmed it.
DeleteReally, Sims, your combination of lazy-assed ignorance, stupidity and banal moral vacuity would be amazing if it weren't so drearily common among the vacuous product of colleges from our generation and beyond. Though I suppose a life time in pop kulcha might have rendered you more banal and stupid than you might have been, like if you'd gone into accounting, not that there's actually much of a difference except the discipline of having to do math.
"Really, Sims, your combination of lazy-assed ignorance, stupidity and banal moral vacuity...."
ReplyDeleteWhy are you reciting my credits?
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Only in the sense that those are your best features. Narcissism would come somewhere in the next cluster.
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