Feeling Good About Feeling Good
I am once again spending a week in our neighbor to the north. Yes, the second largest country in the world is quite different than most Americans think. Yes they speak English (except Quebec) and their currency is the dollar. Most of the same things we have in the states like McDonalds, Walmart, and malls are all over up here. What is different is their behavior as a nation. Canadians (at least those that I am spending 8 hours a day with) all seem to have the same social direction. Everyone seems to want to be uniform and not rock the boat because it could cause someone to not feel good about themselves. Not a very efficient way to accomplish things.
Recycling is huge up here. They use both sides of the paper before they recycle it. It took me a few days to realize that I was not getting two sided copies. It was confusing at first because there seemed to be no continuity between the two pages. Every house I passed this morning had a blue plastic tub out with their trash that was heaping with pop cans, newspapers and milk jugs. What topped the cake was yesterday was Earth Day and the television spend ample air time on just how green Canada was compared to the US. Apparently, socialism provides for easier brainwashing of the masses when it is indoctrinated from birth on.
One of my colleges made a blanket statement that up here in Canada, the women wear the pants in the family. They make the rules and their husbands would not dare make a decision without first letting the wife (or mother of their children for those who choose to remain single in a committed relationship) make it. If that is the case, I can see how Canada got into their current mess. It is almost like a nation of lemmings. They have swallowed the environmentalist mantra hook. line and sinker.
The one thing that Canadians have that Americans don't is access to Cuba. Most of the people I talked to have vacationed in Cuba and rave about how great it is. They also have Cuban cigars which are expensive up here. Of course anything that has to do with the American sin tax mentality is pricey here. I guess it makes sense to tax what people enjoy.
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Cobb
Recycling is huge up here. They use both sides of the paper before they recycle it. It took me a few days to realize that I was not getting two sided copies. It was confusing at first because there seemed to be no continuity between the two pages. Every house I passed this morning had a blue plastic tub out with their trash that was heaping with pop cans, newspapers and milk jugs. What topped the cake was yesterday was Earth Day and the television spend ample air time on just how green Canada was compared to the US. Apparently, socialism provides for easier brainwashing of the masses when it is indoctrinated from birth on.
One of my colleges made a blanket statement that up here in Canada, the women wear the pants in the family. They make the rules and their husbands would not dare make a decision without first letting the wife (or mother of their children for those who choose to remain single in a committed relationship) make it. If that is the case, I can see how Canada got into their current mess. It is almost like a nation of lemmings. They have swallowed the environmentalist mantra hook. line and sinker.
The one thing that Canadians have that Americans don't is access to Cuba. Most of the people I talked to have vacationed in Cuba and rave about how great it is. They also have Cuban cigars which are expensive up here. Of course anything that has to do with the American sin tax mentality is pricey here. I guess it makes sense to tax what people enjoy.
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Cobb
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