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| 08 Sep 2011 03:22 PM |
Canada is a free market nation, arguably moreso than USA?
http://www.heritage.org/Index/ranking |
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| 08 Sep 2011 03:27 PM |
But We still have free health care.
You See this is why we call Canada CENTRIST |
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| 08 Sep 2011 03:41 PM |
| That's just ONE issue bioiron. You're still a free market nation, not centrist. Far from it. |
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| 08 Sep 2011 03:43 PM |
| Our cross country railway, VIA rail, is government owned. |
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| 08 Sep 2011 03:45 PM |
| We have this state owned news station named CBC |
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| 08 Sep 2011 03:46 PM |
| We have nationalized car companies. We nationalized Citigroup. We nationalized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We have government owned Amtrak. What's your point? |
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| 08 Sep 2011 03:48 PM |
| BioIron has just been casted down twice. |
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| 08 Sep 2011 03:53 PM |
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited is gov owned
Canada Post is gov owned
Canadian national railway is also government owned, and has railways running through Usa, from the part of michigan above Wisconsin, to Louisiana's shore |
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| 08 Sep 2011 03:55 PM |
And?
The US Government created our Postal Service, and it use to have a Cabinet-level Postmaster General until Nixon and then it became a nationalized corporation.
The Progressives largely controlled the railways in the early 1900s using class warfare rhetoric to obtain it. |
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| 08 Sep 2011 03:56 PM |
USPS is government owned, again there is Amtrak. NPR was chartered by the Fed, and: - Federal Crop Insurance Corporation - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - Legal Services Corporation - Millenium Challenges Corporation - Overseas Private Investment Corporation
And plenty more. |
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| 08 Sep 2011 03:57 PM |
The Heritage foundation has a weird way of determining what constitutes a free market nation and what doesn't.
I wouldn't consider a country with as large a social safety net as Canada to be 'free market.' |
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| 08 Sep 2011 03:58 PM |
I wouldn't consider a country with as large a social safety net as Canada to be 'free market.' ___ To begin with, the US spends more per capita on social spending than any other nation does, controlling for the different costs in health care.
Secondly, there are SO MANY other factors other than social safety nets. |
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| 08 Sep 2011 03:59 PM |
>To begin with, the US spends more per capita on social spending than any other nation does, controlling for the different costs in health care.
That had nothing to do with what I had to say.
>Secondly, there are SO MANY other factors other than social safety nets.
I know that. The existence of a social safety net removes any pretense of a free market, though. |
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| 08 Sep 2011 04:02 PM |
That had nothing to do with what I had to say. ___ Yes, it did. The US spends more per capita on social safety net than Canada does. Therefore the US has a bigger social safety net. It's pretty simple.
I know that. The existence of a social safety net removes any pretense of a free market, though. ___ It depends on the kinds of programs, and remember, no one is advocating 100% capitalism. |
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