Posted by laramiebob on 9/10/2020 12:05:00 PM (view original):
Posted by lostnfound74 on 9/10/2020 10:50:00 AM (view original):
Obviously this in not a chat forum, but a clique. My only mistake was entering it in the first place. As for us 'dumb Canadians'; have any of you ever wondered why the crime rate in Canada is about a tenth of what it is in the US?
Let me take a wild stab at this.
1. Less population density.
2. Less differential in income and living conditions. (Socialism?)
3. Way less guns.
4. Less racism and less racist history.
5. A (generally) higher educated and calmer cultural personality.
6. In the Western Provinces almost ALL the ignoramuses and neer-do-wells are in the cities, like Vancouver. Places like Kamloops and Vernon are prosperous and great places to raise families----------just like the rural west of the USA. Folks get along and generally don't shoot OR SHOUT at each other there.
7. Canadians don't have heroes who were bandits like we do. No Jesse James, etc.
8. Canucks are too polite to go rob somebody at gunpoint.
9. MOST Canadians are smart enough to survive on their own with the bit of assistance provided by the Mother Country.
10. Most Canadians are smart enough to recognize evil when they see it.
Not sure how ANY of this accounts for YOUR misguided opinions.
Agree with re: to racism. . We think it is totally ignorant, even though a BLM gang converged on a small town of Innisfail, about 8,000 near Calgary, and (hardly any BLM were from Alberta) they started screaming at the locals and calling them racists, and just generally showed their true colors, and I don't mean skin color, as many were white. They are just professional a-holes. They are also very stupid people, with an average IQ of (probably) 90. George Soros empowers them.
So we are not totally opposed in what we see here
Homicide rates and pop density:
Vancouver, within the city limits, is about 670,00. One of the most densely populated cities in North America.
In a bad year, Vancouver city has about 10 murders. How does that compare with say, Seattle? In 2018 Seattle city (area pop 580,000) had 30 murders.
Greater Vancouver had about 30, and that is for the whole metro area of over 2.5 million
Toronto is the 4th biggest city in North America (within City limits). It has a relatively low homicide rate that fluctuated between 2.1 to 3.8 per 100,000 people over the 2010s decade, which is lower than other major cities such as Atlanta, (19.0), Chicago (18.5), Boston (9.0), San Francisco (8.6), and of the aforementioned cities,
Size has nothing to do with the murder rate. If I remember right, Stockton Cal is about
One of Canada's most violent cities is Prince George, with a pop of 85,000
In 2016 Stockton Calif had 55 murders. Their pop is 310,000 They had had 16 murders in the first 4 months of 2020. Stockton is 170 square km, or about 62 square miles. Kind of spread out
Of course, this is all Trump's fault :-p
Kamloops? Love the place, but would not want to live on the Tranquille side of the River
OBTW re: Ignoramuses living in the West: Admittedly we have many. Half of them came from Ontario
Income levels are not a factor. We are just not as violent a people. Period
We really are not polite at all. That is a myth. If you don't believe me, just take a drive during rush hour in Calgary, Vancouver, or simply go into a bar at 10 pm and tell folks you like Trump. After that say nothing.. but do be sitting with your back to a wall. We do NOT recognize that which is evil any more than the US. We are just as perverted in our ways. Eg: is Vancouver. Just as vile as 'Frisco, well almost
Same value set. Both sides of the border.. but we are a bit smarter.. as the average 12 yr old moving here from the US is put back a year in school.. and most of our 12 year olds can name the state capitals of at least 40 of the US states.. and can point to Chicago, New York, or Dallas, on a blank Map. Most Americans think Toronto is Canada's Capital city.. US might be good in some of the sciences, but in Geography, a first year student gets buried by a 12 yr old Canadian.
Aside from our health care system, which works (in spite of itself, and all the built in beaurocracy)
Socialism is a total fail.
30% of the budget is for welfare.. but a big % of those who are on it, don't want to work. They make money dealing drugs. Single able bodied people should not qualify for it. This would allow twice as much for those who need it, aka single moms. Want to know what the real problem is in Canada? Broken homes. Failed marriages, and the victims are the kids.. half of them don't know their father. That describe 85% of them who are behind bars. You see, without mom and dad, the government has your kids for like 1200 hours by the time they are 18. Not good. It also puts a huge drag on social services, which of course is paid with our taxes.
Our 'Tax freedom day ' is soon going to be in early July. Taxes also includes Enviro levies, GST, PST, luxury car tax, Air conditioning tax (cars) real estate purchase tax, and cap gains tax outside the TFSA. So you see, the government taxes what we earn, what we spend, what we save, what we invest, and oh yeah, did I forget the $2,500 to get the permit to cut down that tree in your back yard? This is socialism.. and we are very stupid in this regard because there is no pushback
In 1960 if you bought $400 worth of tires, you paid $20 in taxes, that's all. Today you pay $52 tx, plus the enviro levy, something about recycling.. and your tires set you back at over $475. Are we better off today? NO.. I have been here for both. Did I mention the tax on fuel? How about the service? Arrogantly they make you pay first, and
you pay $1.50 to put air in a soft tire.
Now go back 60 years.. You get the fuel pumped FOR you, We check your oil, water levels (not necessary today) check for frayed belts and wearing rad hoses.and no way you leave with a soft tire. we did that for you too. Took all of an extra 2-3 minutes. Then we cleaned your windshield. The socialist agenda: I hate it with a perfect hatred
Long winded? Perhaps
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