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- angryfirelord, on 06/10/2009, -11/+35Ah yes, gotta love tons of charts with no scales or numbers to be found.
- LSUPrince00, on 06/10/2009, -1/+21The nuclear chart looked like a big middle finger to me... America, ***** yeah.
- inactive, on 06/10/2009, -1/+19Just for some perspective
Population:
Canada: 33 million
USA 300+ million
Mexico: 109 million - jshhmr, on 06/10/2009, -3/+17"In the year 2000, The United States and Canada will join forces and form one country called.....Mexico Sucks" -Conan O'Brien
- mattnyc99, on 06/10/2009, -2/+16i <3 mint!
- pp7k, on 06/10/2009, -0/+14RTFA? Quote: "...you might be wondering what the use of a chart without scale or numbers is. But before you decide..."
So they do offer an explanation as well as a link to numerical sources. What else do you want? - dupems, on 06/10/2009, -0/+11The military section, while not surprising, is a little ridiculous.
- mibi, on 06/10/2009, -1/+11um.. are you forgetting the Snuggie?
- inactive, on 06/10/2009, -0/+10If thats the case, enjoy your new found poverty. Hope you can spot a fiver.
- Konnnan, on 06/10/2009, -5/+14LOL @ Mexico's net migration rate
- waspbr, on 06/10/2009, -0/+8The rate is not *****, the mexican unemployment rate is of about 4.8%. The thing is that being employed does not translate into high wages and being poor and unemployed in mexico is a lot worse than being unemployed in the US.
- BlacklabelSAR, on 06/10/2009, -0/+8The Canadians I know are happier and more relaxed than the Americans I know.
- FairDinkumMate, on 06/10/2009, -0/+8Imagine a decent government funded education & how that would have helped you to understand that Mexico isn't in South America!
If you want a highway connecting South America, you might want to start it in Chile or Argentina & head north & east... - Zaetha, on 06/10/2009, -0/+7Not ***** at all. We have a lot of jobs, but they require certain level of education. Almost everyone who goes to the USA illegally are "campesinos" or peasants, call them lucky if someone of them had some education past elementary school. And even those jobs in Mexico are heavily underpaid. Good luck finding a job that pays above $300 dollars a month.
- mibi, on 06/10/2009, -2/+9relative comparisons, straight to the dome, oh yeah...
- dupems, on 06/10/2009, -0/+7Don't argue with this guy. He's either a troll or an idiot of inconceivable proportions.
- gdo01, on 06/10/2009, -0/+6Old article but still applicable: http://www.geocities.com/jonclark500/stories/jobs. ...
"...according to the paradigm used by the government’s statistics-gathering agency, INEGI, any person who has worked at least one hour for monetary compensation during the previous one-week period is employed." - Manther, on 06/10/2009, -0/+6Las Vegas is a completely different beast. More like an exception to the rule....
- mibi, on 06/10/2009, -1/+7hand holding and pointless clutter of course!
- moondogg360, on 06/10/2009, -2/+7so who's winning?
Nevermind. - CheesyPoofs, on 06/10/2009, -0/+5Coming again, to save the mother ***** day yeah
- Hetman, on 06/10/2009, -2/+7I do not know where you live or work but it is not in the states. We do not underfund education. We have bad educational policy. "no child left behind." Your list is a bit absurd if you ask me.
"We encourage all students to attend college to become ONLY engineers, doctors, lawyers and MBAs." You say that but america is lacking people in all those fields. Do you really need to go to college to study music? - mibi, on 06/10/2009, -0/+4It's kind of hard to nuke canada since most of there population is within 30 miles of our border.
- sigep441, on 06/10/2009, -3/+7Las Vegas has the highest suicide rate in the US and ~300 sunny days a year.
- donotclickjim, on 06/10/2009, -4/+8"Gender Development Index" wtf is that? women rights?
- cubicledrone, on 06/10/2009, -11/+15Well, let's see. In America, we make fun of people who read books.
We make twice as much fun of people who write books.
We ridicule creativity.
We encourage all students to attend college to become ONLY engineers, doctors, lawyers and MBAs.
We underfund our schools.
Our companies do no training, offer no entry level jobs, underpay their employees and fire people constantly.
Our companies have a "***** you" attitude to everyone, including their customers, vendors, partners, shareholders, neighbors, owners and everyone else that isn't management.
Companies actively discourage customers from buying products, then try to force them to buy the overpriced ***** version.
We haven't invented anything worth a ***** since the Apollo Program. There's a start for comparison. - dupems, on 06/10/2009, -1/+5What the ***** are you on?
- 4321234, on 06/10/2009, -0/+4Penis / breast size.
- psolms, on 06/10/2009, -0/+4every single one in the military section looked like some variation of a middle finger...
- Hetman, on 06/10/2009, -1/+5I am sorry but music school is not the same as college. If you like music go to a college that speacilizes in it. The market will determine if someone wants to hire you or not. The market determines how much DR, engineers, lawyers etc get paid. It is not like the government are forcing companies to pay engineers minimuim wage of 60 dollars an hour. There are just so few of them in the US that they make more money because they are in demand.
- BoneheadFarker, on 06/10/2009, -3/+7No one in Mexico has to kill themselves. It looks like someone else will gladly do it for them...
- Orsenfelt, on 06/10/2009, -3/+6Canada, they have all the oil.
- RogerStrong, on 06/10/2009, -0/+3Considering that NAFTA does not include any central american countries, how did it "toy with central america" or "ravage its countries"?
- JCEEZ, on 06/10/2009, -0/+3First of all look at CubicleDrone's comment history. He obviously got fired recently by a "middle-manager" with a "Power Point Presentation".
I'm not really sure who ridicules people who read books or writes them. Maybe he does, and some 11 year old children do....
I went to college with no intention of being a doctor, lawyer or getting an MBA. As a matter of fact I work for a publishing company (see "read books"). And ironically, I started with an entry level job. Yea no one held my hand and showed me how to use Outlook or use a fax machine, but that's mostly because I'm not a retard, and people assumed I'm not one. Good thing I was GOOD at my job and my workplace is merit based, not a charity. As a matter of fact, the US has some pretty amazing schools:
http://www.topuniversities.com/university_rankings ...
Just a few recent inventions:
The Magnetic Resonating Machine (MRI), Ethernet, Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), Cellular Phones, The Hepatitis-B vaccine, The Personal Computer the MP3
I suggest CubicleDrone moves to a different country if he dislikes it here that much. I've lived in 3 and have been to over 25, and while America isn't perfect, the rest of the world isn't too. So if it's not for you GTFO and STFU. Stop complaining and do something about it.
oh and
"more often than not is that someone with a bachelors degree in Business is going up against someone with a bachelor degree in music. Who would you hire?"
"I wouldn't evaluate candidates based on the 12 classes they took for their major."
That's why people get fired. They give them a chance, they fail, they get fired. - kswanton, on 06/10/2009, -1/+4go away troll
- doubad, on 06/10/2009, -0/+3Actually, that award is all yours.
I believe he's refering to the "kick Canada out" part.
You know.. the provider of natural resources for the U.S. - JCEEZ, on 06/10/2009, -0/+3Please explain the "perfect" society then... aside from everyone having Segways.
- inactive, on 06/10/2009, -0/+3Nuclear weapons really aren't something to be laughed at
- yourmightyruler, on 06/10/2009, -0/+3The govt expenses/revenue is messed up as well.
- donotclickjim, on 06/10/2009, -1/+4The U.S. dominates in GDP but it is roughly 70% services. To whom are these services provided that generate us such wealth and what services do we provide? Anyone got any links to this information?
- davewelsh79, on 06/10/2009, -0/+2ViagraGain™
It gives you lots of hair and what you need down there. What are you waiting for, loser?
(May cause loss of scalp and penis) - PbFarmer, on 06/10/2009, -0/+2I'm fairly certain almost every company has entry level positions and helps teach the newcomers to their business or else there would be no one under the age of 25 or so working. Additionally many of these programs are very thoughtful and if you're having trouble finding an entry level position its probably just because our economy has suffered and cutbacks have forced more significant realignment of companies.
Also I don't know who ridicules creativity..or makes fun of people for reading and/or writing. Maybe thats news to me but doesn't every celebrity write their book also only furthering the idea that they want people to read them?
As Hetman said, we're under-employed in Engineers, Doctors, and whatnot. I'm pretty sure people are encouraged for what is successful at the current time and what is needed in a market, but people aren't DIScouraged from being other things. - fury420, on 06/10/2009, -0/+2agreed.
Plus, the constant switching from unadjusted statistics to statistics adjusted based on population got really really annoying - RogerStrong, on 06/10/2009, -0/+2That would be a mistake, invading a country of people who can be indistinguishable from Americans, and who share a border thousands of miles long. The U.S. could easily invade and occupy Canada, but the insurgency would be fought in America itself. It's not worth it.
- ShadowofAres, on 06/10/2009, -0/+2So did the national trade deficit. Go figure.
- flynnfx, on 06/11/2009, -0/+2We always will be. I like America, it's a great country - but the ***** politicians who bible-thump down there are screwing up your country left, right and centre. Not to say the Democrats are great - every political party has tons of flaws - but when you start governing a country by religious means - you ***** it up.
America, legalize abortion, make gays equal to straights, stop preaching morality as if your position is the only right one, relax on marijuana - and you will be a lot more happier.
Seriously, listen to the fundamentalists in the USA, and you'll realize they're not that much different from the fundamentalists in the middle east.
Although what our minor bible-thumper in Canada, Steven Harper, has just passed on marijuana illegality, he needs a serious slap upside the head. - BlacklabelSAR, on 06/11/2009, -0/+2This is why my wife and I are planning to move to Toronto. (First choice would be Vancouver B,C, but it is too expensive).
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