First off, the article was supposedly about why Canadians are supposedly obligated to hate America and then the guy just goes off and spews more hate at America. Nice.
Second, I do not understand the general Canadian fascination with obsessing about the USA. It's really very
French, in my opinion.
Now let me clarify that my comments are
only directed at the seeming majority who obsess about the USA. Yes, I know some of you could care less about the USA and this is not at all directed at you.
We are a different country, as Derby so aptly pointed out last year. If you could accept that and not play some silly, pointless pissing war over who is better or worse in what regard we'd get along much better.
For instance, the general Canadian fascination with US health care comes to mind. What the hell do you care about how we manage and get on with health care? It's not as if you pay for our uninsured people out of Ottawa's general budget. Yet you act like you do. For some of you imposing a national socialised health care scheme on the USA would appear to be your
raison de vivre.
I often wonder that many Americans probably oppose a national health care scheme simply for that we don't want you folks to get the idea that we did it at your suggestion.
Yes, I understand that we're right next door and kind of hard to ignore. But still, if you obsessive folks paid as much attention to
Canada as you do to bashing the USA then Canada would be one damn fine and spiffy place.
Frankly, if you hate the USA then leave us alone. Focus on Canadian issues and Canadian problems and when you're confronted with a question about why people in some teensy town in Arizona have a high arsenic content in their water simply say, "Who cares, that would be America's problem."
Now, I am the first person to note that most Americans cannot find America on a map of America.
Our education elites - liberals all of them - decided forty years ago that the sciences in general were not to be a focus of education in the USA anymore because kids who failed at the sciences suffered from
poor self esteem when they were advised of their shortcomings. Geography used to be an
entire subject unto itself that was taught in American schools and now it is something that a social sciences teacher is expected to gloss over in a one hour class once per year.
It is no surprise to me that Americans have become more and more illiterate over the years despite higher and higher graduation rates in the schools. The schools are simply graduating the ignorant.
Consequently, the NEA and their members adamantly oppose standardized testing as a means of forcing teachers to teach meaningful subjects and as a means of forcing liberalised curriculae to be thrown away in favour of actually preparing students to succeed in the real world.
My wife and I have for years subsidized young people who attend private elementary schools, secondary schools, and colleges such as
Hillsdale College for the exact reason that the only way to save children from the ignorance being promulgated in the public schools is to support the private schools that provide a traditional and rigorous education. One of our young charges defended her doctoral thesis at Oxford in 2004 and we are singularly pleased that we contributed to that.
The children we've sponsored over the years are knowledgeable, literate, and creative courtesy of the foundation of learning they've been exposed to.
My reason for posting this is because if you really want to improve America you'd stop obsessing about our health care, our tax rates, and other minutiae and you'd pay more attention to the crappy educations our children are receiving in the union and liberal dominated public schools.
Our kids are not going to ever know sh*t about Canada because our schools don't teach one bloody thing anymore past how to put on a condom and how to vote Democrat.
. You must live in a VERY democratic state, Bart, it's not all the fault of the teacher's unions here, not by a long shot. And while your teachers unions have enough control to prevent much needed change coming their way they don't have THAT much control as to control absolutely everything about American society that they are to blame for all of your woes. They had help. Lots of help from other areas such as politics, the media (who is not as liberal as you might think) and even religion. Bart, it's hard not to be focused on America when America's power and influence sort of dictate that kind of obsession. It might be our quirk and the quirk of other nations to be obsessed about America but as they say, when you are the elephant, it's hard not to toss a huge shadow over EVERYTHING. And I am not suprised that the elephant does not notice that, so to speak.
America isn't evil, but it needs to clean up it's act. And no, that is not too big a thing to ask especially since America is asking for as much power and spotlight as it is. Think of it as only right to pay rent for that palace you built yourself.
Good of you to translate it for simpletons like yourself.
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