Post by luvinretrmnt on Dec 17, 2014 16:19:45 GMT -5
Would be funny if it wasn't true.
Canadian Top 10
Canadian editorial humor directed at the US
.....Makes you wonder....
This is Canada's Top Ten List of America's
Stupidity ...
Canada's
version of David Letterman's "Top 10"
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10. Only in America ... Could politicians talk
about the greed of the rich at a
$35,000.00 a plate campaign fund-raising event.
9. Only in America .... Could people claim that the
government still discriminates against black Americans
when they have a black President, a black Attorney General
and roughly 20% of the federal work force is
black while only 14% of the population is black. 40+%
of all federal entitlements goes to black Americans –
3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to
Hispanics!
8. Only in America .... Could they have had the two
people most responsible for our tax code,Timothy Geithner
(the head of the Treasury Department) and
Charles Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee),
BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of
higher taxes.
7. Only in America .... Can they have terrorists
kill people in the name of Allah and have the media
primarily react by fretting that Muslims might
be harmed by the backlash.
6. Only in America .... Would they make people
who want to legally become American citizens wait
for years in their home countries and
pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege,
while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country
illegally just 'magically' become American citizens.
5. Only in America .... Could the people who
believe in balancing the budget and sticking by
the country's Constitution be thought of as
"extremists.."
4. Only in America .... Could you need to present a
driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol,
but not to vote.
3. Only in America .... Could people demand the
government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public
because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a
major U.S. Oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company
making tennis shoes (Nike).
2. Only in America .... Could the government
collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded
history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for
total spending of $7Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't
have nearly enough money.
AND:
1. Only in America .... Could the rich people - who
pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying their
"fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at
all.
“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
— Ernest Hemingway
Canadian Top 10
Canadian editorial humor directed at the US
.....Makes you wonder....
This is Canada's Top Ten List of America's
Stupidity ...
Canada's
version of David Letterman's "Top 10"
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
10. Only in America ... Could politicians talk
about the greed of the rich at a
$35,000.00 a plate campaign fund-raising event.
9. Only in America .... Could people claim that the
government still discriminates against black Americans
when they have a black President, a black Attorney General
and roughly 20% of the federal work force is
black while only 14% of the population is black. 40+%
of all federal entitlements goes to black Americans –
3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to
Hispanics!
8. Only in America .... Could they have had the two
people most responsible for our tax code,Timothy Geithner
(the head of the Treasury Department) and
Charles Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee),
BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of
higher taxes.
7. Only in America .... Can they have terrorists
kill people in the name of Allah and have the media
primarily react by fretting that Muslims might
be harmed by the backlash.
6. Only in America .... Would they make people
who want to legally become American citizens wait
for years in their home countries and
pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege,
while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country
illegally just 'magically' become American citizens.
5. Only in America .... Could the people who
believe in balancing the budget and sticking by
the country's Constitution be thought of as
"extremists.."
4. Only in America .... Could you need to present a
driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol,
but not to vote.
3. Only in America .... Could people demand the
government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public
because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a
major U.S. Oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company
making tennis shoes (Nike).
2. Only in America .... Could the government
collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded
history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for
total spending of $7Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't
have nearly enough money.
AND:
1. Only in America .... Could the rich people - who
pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying their
"fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at
all.
“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
— Ernest Hemingway
