This is a little off the subject, but twice now I've seen reference to Canada being such a bad place to live. Why? They've got cheaper drugs, legal drugs, no terrorist attacks, and the Vedder River. I see a lot more Americans going up there for vacation than I do Canucks coming down here. If you're trying to make some point about the US becomig like a bad country, choose Mexico or Cuba. People are dieing trying to get out of those countries. I don't see where being a little more like Canada is such a bad thing.

And before all the neocons even suggest it - because I don't want to, that's why. I love this country far too much to leave it to the likes of you.

By the way, Elvis, your real estate analogy is overly simplistic at best. What you describe is colonialism and imperialism, both of which the US historically has not condoned. That's why we've fought the likes of Russia, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, etc. in the past. Continuing under the guise you suggest would be complete hypocrisy on our part.