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