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Wolf 253 wrote:
> On Sun, 18 May 2008 01:55:22 GMT
> catchme <someone@somewhere.net> wrote:
> 
>> Bucky Breeder wrote:
>>
>>> DUHane, he so ghay... Has to have Canadian
>>> heritage in the woodpile somewheres.  Prolly,
>>> his mommie was a hooker in the moose fields,
>>> lettin' them fur-farmers tap that beaver, for
>>> pesos, or whatever Canadians use for money,
>>> oh-oh-oh : strings of shells I'm being told.
>>>
>>
>> unlike pesos, or even the USD, the Canadian dollar has value.
>> the us government has gone on a 20 year spending spree (From Reagan to 
>> Bush) and finally have to answer for it.
>>
> Thats why Albertans drive down here to shop all the time :)
> 
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> http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/17/kempthorne-beck/

same reason americans go to mexico to do their shopping- taking 
advantage of the prices bound to a weaker dollar.
gas is cheaper in the us after exchange, and us folks in vancouver love 
to go to bellingham to shop at bellis fair.
It became a ghost town around '96 when your dollar was much higher, but 
we're back again- in bigger numbers than ever.
dont hate us though- we're actually strengthening your economy (despite 
the new regulation imposed on us getting passports to cross the border- 
it used to be that we could cycle across without even an id card, and 
the us border guards were much friendlier!)

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To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States,
Resist much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth,
ever after-ward resumes its liberty.

-Walt Whitman, 1860