That’s only part of it. You’ll get legal pot and hookers, too. And every citizen would be above the financial existence minimum. But be prepared: your taxes will be doubled or tripled.
Canada. No contest. The reason is simple: Canada kicks ass (it says so on a sweatshirt of mine, so it must be true)! Americans would have better access to health care. They would be part of a country with a great reputation (last time I checked, it was the only nation to participate in every single U.N. venture). People would hate americans less (you’ve never seen TV footage of a middle-eastern extremist yelling “Canada is Satan!”, have you?). We could lift that silly embargo on Cuba, allowing americans to buy and enjoy as many fine havana cigars as they like. Not only is the beer better, but the bars are open later, too! Americans will finally have a reason to not like francophones. Poverty would be less severe. Oh, and about a million other reasons, too.
Oh, and Kilt-wearin’ man, Canada was pretty much built by scotsmen, so it’s “nae crap” (or however you’d say that in scottish :)).
There’s an old joke this reminds me of - it was a list of phrases every American should learn to say fluently in Arabic.
The best one was at #1: “Don’t shoot, I’m a Canadian!”
As for the UN peacekeeping service, the Canadian army was the only UN member force that took no crap from the Serbs in Bosnia. I remember reading about a Serb checkpoint that had gone up overnight on a road that was supposed to be unrestricted. The Canadians that were escorting a food convoy on that road ran over the checkpoint with an armored personnel carrier. At the time, all of the other peacekeepers would have stopped or turned back.
Yeah, Canada’s cool, Max. But then again, you Canadians owe us big for taking Alan Thicke and William Shatner off your hands…
I beg to differ on the Canadians being the only troops standing up to the Serbs in Bosnia. The Danish Leopard tanks whupped a Serbian ambush well enough that their sector got so peaceful as to be considered boring. Headline in Newsweek: “The mouse ate the cat”. Yup, I was proud.
As to the OP: NO, we don’t want the US. As a matter of fact, we’re trying to rid ourselves of the Faroe islands and it’s going to cost us a fortune.
Although, of course, if my tireless work of getting Swiddles hitched with Crown Prince Frederik comes to fruition, we would be in an outstanding postion to take over. Of course, you’d have to get used to watching von Trier movies and have the stores close at ungodly hours.