What do you Americans think of us Canadians as?

[Grey Acumen]

SamuelRSmith said:

1) - The US had very little to do with WW1. And since World War 2, you have lost both the Korean and Vietnam wars.

2) - The people who call the lack of free health care a good thing are the people who will never need it, and only
really care about number one. And competition creates better conditions than comsumers? You do realise that a) Socialist health care systems are (in general) rated way much higher then the US's health care system. and b) The US actually has a lower rated health care system then that of Saudi Arabia,the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Dominica, Irael, Chile and Colombia.

3) - The USoA has one of the worst pollution policies in the whole of the Western world. You say "other large
countries" by that, I assume you mean China and India. And, yeah, you're right... but their populations much
greater than yours, and they're developing at a much faster rate than USoA. And let's not forget the little saying
"two wrongs don't make a right".

1) You can't win a war when you're only playing defense, so of course that was lost. Even then it wasn't our military that lost it, it was media that lost those wars.

2) If there are three things government has ALWAYS sucked in, it is response time, cost maintanence and taking responsibility for liabilities. Now you're telling me that you want your hospitals to suck in these areas as well? Hate to break it to you, but if the government is funding it, that's how hospitals are going to be run. If I put shit on a plate and told you it was free, that wouldn't make it edible, and giving it a high rating wouldn't change that.

3) We may have one of the worst policies, but we actually FOLLOW it 90% of the time. On top of that, people have lost a grip on what actually constitutes pollution. Environmentalists are so hyped up on their own self importance that they're willing to point to any possible chemical they can find as a problem in order to justify their own continued existence to the world. I'm willing to bet that if America's Policies are only half as stringent as other countries, they're still 95% as effective when it comes down to real world results.