Well, the Quebecians get more because they are the ones who would be most against it.
Apparently you people don’t get the point that we wouldn’t get Canada by MILITARY FORCE! I never said anything to that effect. And since when did Canada become our biggest trading partner? What do we trade with them? Do we give them heat in exchange for beer? I think we spend more on crude oil or imported cars.
I have yet to see people have any sort of list of downsides to my plan. And if you did, then why won’t you post it? Your silence only proves my point more.
And you other Canadiens, tell me how much you COULD be bought for. Remember, 2 Canadien dollars equals 1 American dollar, so it would seem like twice as much. C’mon, let me know people.
You also wouldn’t have to change the signs because of the duel reading on the speedometer. You could use metric, people do, I refuse to, but people do.
Acctually, yes. They acount for 22% of the market for our exports, and 19.8 % of our imports.
My source on this is Microsoft Bookshelf.
Give us a few seconds to respond.
If we could not overtake Canada through military force, how? Buying their identity? Remember, most people support their relatively socialist government (to the U.S.), what is most likely preventing them or anyone from being rich. At what price would you give away Alan Greenspan and Wallstreet to Canadians? It could be pretty expensive.
All in all, the GD rates about a 1.5/10.0. I keep thnkthing that this is some sort of dry, not to humorous humor on your part. Like South Parks, “Blame Canada!” song. No wait, that was actually funny.
Hello, I am an Australian and I live in Australia on the Gold Coast (Just below Brisbane and about 600 km north of Sydney).
I would gladly have Australia become part of the United States of America. Our country is much like Canada’s, nearly the same population, natural resourses, nearly the same political system, the Australian Dollar is about the same value as the Canadian Dollar. But we don’t have a very big french population infact most of our population is from Europe decendents. Our national language is English and I have often had US tourist say to me why are there so many British Tourists over here?? Well that’s because the US film and television industry hypes up our outback Australian population’s accents. In fact our accent is more like an English accent that has been more relaxed to a US accent. Also I, and most of the people I know, haven’t even been to the outback. About 80% of Australians live in towns and Cities, and we don’t have kangaroos bouncing around in the streets… The only place you see native animals is in Zoos and Wildlife Sanctuaries.
We have low crime rates, (and I wish your gun lobbies would stop using the apparent failure of our gun laws to stop violent crimes. Actually those statistics were taken from a little city with high unemployment and a Labor State Government [The american party equivilant of a party that gives the people what they want by increasing spending on everything and higher social securities and then screws up the economy with high government debt and high unemployment, IS THIS FAMILIAR TO ANY OF YOU? I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE PARTY EQUIVILANT TO THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY].)
Well I have given you all the reasons why the US might want Australia. Here is why Australian would want to be part of the US.
Imported stuff would cost heaps less, cause our dollar would be the US$.
We would have guaranteed military protection. None of this, we goto the Korean war and the Vietnam war and Gulf War and anything else the US wants, and then when we needed assistance in a piece keeping mission to a nearby newly independant nation called East Timor, the answer was… ‘Err… were sorry we kind of have troops elsewhere and helping East Timor isn’t going to have any benifits for us perhaps we can send a transport ship’
We wouldn’t have Prince Charles on the back of our coins when the Queen kicks the bucket. We would have US Presidents and stuff.
When a nearby nation with a piss-weak military is commiting war crimes in its own country and our Prime Minister is too scared to say anything or do anything because our military is too small and weak to do anything about it. We would just get our US President to ring the Indonesian President and tell him that if he doesn’t get his military to stop the militia from killing UN workers and the refugee East Timor population being forced to stay in West Timor by the Militia that If Indonesia doesn’t do something right away we would flatten Indonesia’s military and put trade bans on their already weak economy causing the archipelago to break up and possibly some of the provinces to Join the United Stats…
So then the US is all of North America and is also most of South East Asia and Australia.
I think that Canada and Australia joining the US would be the best thing since sliced bread!
PerfectDark
I think you made a very wise choice for your SDMB alias.
moronicspeedbump says:
I can’t speak for others, but MY silence simply proves that I consider some OPs too silly to comment on.
S. Norman
As a Canadian, I’d like to say, “not in a million years”.
As for the Quebec thing… Quebecers always get more.
As for my price: uh, I’d say about $3.5 million would buy my support for an American invasion. Then I’d leave - head over to Australia and live there.
But no amount of money is enough to convince me to put an American flag on my flagpole and keep it there.
Fine. Invade if you like.
We’ll wait until December. Then we’ll blow up all the hydro wires and natural gas pipelines.
American-occupied Montreal, Vancouver, and Toronto will freeze into solid blocks of ice.
We’ll decamp to Winnipeg and begin a national terrorist deployment of cold-air masses.
You Amurrican pussies won’t outlive the month.
uh… Matt, incase you don’t remember, we don’t need to blow out our power lines. Hydro Quebec has made sure that they will succumb on their own. 
This goes out to everyone, but mostly threemae. Yes I agree with what you have said, and no I don’t think the US should waist lives of innocent memebers of the US military to try to take over Canada. (moronmountain yes it would become a military issue because of Canadian resistance.) I also agree with your statistics on Imports and Exports (19% and 23%). I check with the CIA and that’s what they said, with their newest stats coming from the 1998 fiscal year. But yet I have a question. Do you think that most of the Imports and Exports come in result of the US and Canada having a huge border? I honestly don’t believe that it can be said that the Imports and Exports are because Canada has the best merchindice. I believe that if the US didn’t have a border with Canada then the Import and Export numbers would be more like Import >3% and Export about 12%. Also with your numbers it says that the US is exporting about 4% more, which is roughly what is shipped to Germany every year. Does that tell you about what the US has to give and what Canada needs?
Just courious.
Hey dewt, we’ll give you that money, and then take PerfectDark’s suggestion and get Australia. Either way, you lose.
Even if Canada is America’s biggest trading partner, that is all the more reason we should get Canada. Then we wouldn’t have to pay import and export taxes, and could ship the stuff farther away for higher profit.
And it wouldn’t turn to the military. If the Canadien government refuses, then oh well, we will move on the Australia and forget about Canada, or Kanata as the Ottawa citizens spell it. The people will really have no say anyway, will they? The government invariably desides. I guess that means we could offer high government officials $500,000 dollars each and save money while letting the corrupting power of money beneift us. We still may get Australia, I don’t know.
As for it being a not too humorous attempt at humor, nice try. It wasn’t meant for humor. It was simply a question. When America was expanding west, we fought a war with Europe about where our norther border would be. We won, but didn’t take the land. Likewise with Mexico, but no one wants Mexico. It is more a “what if” question. What if we took the land from Europe before Canada was Canada? Well, this is my solution. Take over Canada.
I agree, but I think the ‘mountain’ part is too cumbersome…
no americans would actually die in a war with canada
canada is weak and pitiful just screw what they have to say and take them anyways… if they resist… can we say genocide? and what kind of resistance can they possibly put up anyways they dont even have an army… stupid peace loving nation… first off we can buy your whole freaking country and then deport you all to a warmer climate where you will all inevitable thaw out and die… secondly it doesnt matter what the ppl ahve to say … the ppl never matter…
australia would be welcome to join the US and since we liek australia we wouldnt do anything to them and we would just let them reap the benifits of being part of the largest empire ever and the best/most powerfull country in the world…
canada on the other hand we dont liek… what have they ever done for us anyways? we can own your country and you ppl wont even know it… to tell you the truth we probabaly allready do… oh well resistance is futile… i have two words for canada… “manifest destiny”… thats right its back and you are gonna get it worse than the native americans did…
Ok… so buy Australia too. Meanwhile I’m sitting in a cafe in Amsterdam, happily blowing my 3.5 million… and I lose?
Seriously though… I think we should make the Americans an offer they can’t refuse… Each American could make a $75 dollar contribution and get a trial Canadian citizenship.
BTW: Kanata is a suburb of Ottawa. :putz:
Skakid- you don’t get a trial membership - you get an automatic appointment as goboy for the bloc quebecois.
I can’t believe some of you are taking this topic even semi-seriously. Here’s some more inane ranting from the moron.
http://www.angelfire.com/mb/moronmountain/homosexuality.html
well, Uncle-of-my-favorite-beverage…that was indeed an ‘eye-opening’ URl…
it was wonderful to find out that ** 98%** of the world owns a bible…do you think megamoron did the polling himself?
earlier, I thought I detected the smell of troll crap…but decided that it was probably just moron droppings…being a newbie, I just couldn’t be sure…
All of this is to be taken in jest. My God. You people are so infested with Tunnel Vision. Realize this is a “What If” question. Not my plan for world domination or not a “nonhumorous attempt at humor”. Other wise it would be somewhere else. Someone says we lose trade partners, and I come up with a feasible answer. Here’s a “What If” question for ya; What if some people here had a brain? Or ever hear about your Aunt If? If she had balls she would have been your uncle.
I asked every FUCKING PERSON IN THE WORLD IF THEY HAD A PART OF THE BIBLE. Why don’t you go ask uncle Cecil you whining bitches? Or just open a FUCKING BOOK called Guiness? Ever hear of them? Look under the most widely distributed book. Hey, let’s make stupid, pointless statements we can’t back up!
Want another inane rambling of mine? Go to http://www.angelfire.com/mb/moronmountain/equality.html and call me a FUCKING RACIST! You think I’m supposed to care what people I will never meet think about me? Oh NO! Two piss-ants think I’m a loser!
My theory might be expanded to include mexico, but I don’t want impoverish drug addicts like UncleBeer and dewt ruining my United Empire of America.
So we should try Canadien Citizenship? FUCK NO! I could be bought for 3.5 million and then move to Australia. HA HA, HA HA.
While we are stuck on the name, let’s do deductive reasoning about other people. UncleBeer for instance. Boy, with a name like that he must be a incoherent, sloppy, wino! And dewt…we should just immolate him on an altar to the God of Stupidity. Listen, if SkaKid_42 doesn’t get a trial period, then why can’t you be forced to stay IN the country? Hey, we can say things that don’t make sense, but I’ll be the first to jump on your ass when someone else does. Good job!
So if the moderators don’t like it, then pull the post. Some one finds it interesting or people wouldn’t post anything and it would slip off the bottom of the list. People seem to enjoy the IPU. This is the same thing. ENTERTAINMENT/FEASABILITY. SO FUCK OFF! If you don’t like it, STOP POSTING!
DAMN STRAIGHT!!!
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This is a mess and nowhere near a Great Debate. Based on the insults bantered about, I think it will do well in the BBQ Pit.
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