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Re: Question for the Conservatives out there
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Wed, 14 Jul 2004 01:46:18 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Laswell wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
   Canada is going to have to take a number. I’d rather have (the rest of) Mexico first:-)

That’d never happen. Conservative corporate interests wouldn’t want to see it happen because it’d mean that all of those companies that have moved production plants down there would have to start paying US minimum wage (or worse, Union wage), and liberal interests wouldn’t want to see the welfare system, social security, and the possibility of ever acheiving national health-care shredded into micro-scopic pieces by the annexation of an economy that’s so much lower than our own.

Stepping off my ‘trash Dubya’ soap box...

K, Canada is assimilated by the US--

Can I run for Prez?

Is being ‘born in the US’ retroactive for Canadians if Canada becomes 51-64 states?

Dave K



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  Re: Question for the Conservatives out there
 
(...) That's a good question. The closest precedent I could think of is that if you weren't a natural born citizen, you could still be eligible by being a citizen of the US before the constitution was adopted, but I remember reading that that was (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
  Re: Question for the Conservatives out there
 
(...) Have you forgotten what it was like down there;-) (...) Yes, but in your case, we'd make an exception;-D JOHN (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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  Re: Question for the Conservatives out there
 
(...) That'd never happen. Conservative corporate interests wouldn't want to see it happen because it'd mean that all of those companies that have moved production plants down there would have to start paying US minimum wage (or worse, Union wage), (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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