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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Forthright who wrote (311303)	10/26/2002 10:25:21 PM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

That doesn't mean we will be swappin spit! ;) However, when one considers the proximity of the two nations and the relatively swift and sizable devaluation of the currency, reaction would be expected. The reaction of the anti-US sentiment is ironically due to the perception of "sameness" by the two cultures. So when one sibling gets a smaller piece of the candy bar, quite naturally should wonder why, but instead just feels anger toward the other sibling. This anger would not exist at all without the perception of being more than equal, but the same. In the self examination of the problem, they might see the bankrupt social programs, to include medicine. I do recall at one time state auto insurance. However, seeing these things that they remark as progressive and "cap feathers" as being possible reasoning for the devaluation, the claim of unfair treatment of the "same" is somewhat reconciled in the minds eye. However, mitigated the animosity may be, due to the self-creation the devaluation, it still breeds a subconscious level of contempt because the social programs were created with the best of intentions.. You can't have it both ways. The attempt at being "continental" in the New World" has frustrated social circles since colonial times. That phenomena has been a stigma for colonists , since the Roman days. Whether living in Canada or in the US, I have found they/we are all the same people and the fuss is silliness. That would of course, still, exclude the crazy French from any meaningful dialogue. Never has there been another group of people that so exquisitely ostracized themselves from decent society and the common (not pedestrian) man. They truly are the tail that wags the dog.