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From: jon@isrnix.UUCP (Jon Bayh)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: submitted for comments
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Date: Sun, 22-Jul-84 02:33:06 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 22 02:33:06 1984
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> Maybe you think Canadians have no business commenting on such matters
> of "internal" US politics -- but although we can't vote, your misgovernment
> hurts us probably more than it hurts you.
>  
> "No taxation without representation!"   But how do we secede?
>    Martin Taylor
>    {allegra,linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt

	On the contrary, I sometimes wish that you Canadians would comment
on U.S. policies much more vigorously.  I am outraged and incensed at the
blase attitude of most U.S. citizens on the effects we have on the rest of
the world.

	One of the most blatantly irresponsible attitudes we have is with
respect to the acid rain problem.  If we were simply polluting our own
water and airspace, that would be our business.  But instead we pass laws
concerning the air quality immediately surrounding our coal-fired plants
and permit the plants to build higher smokestacks, which spread pollution
into Canadian air.  It is exactly as if two people lived side-by-side, and
each day one of them carried his garbage outside and dumped it onto his
neighbor's lawn.  Quite frankly, if Canada declared war on the United
States because of issue, I would fight on Canada's side.

	I think that a major part of the problem is that most "Americans"
(as if Canada and Mexico and all of South America were not a part of the
American continents)  are so indoctrinated with the attitude that we have
the best country and the best government on earth, that we forget that
others have equally valid governments and equally sovereign states.
The United States educational system does not teach how people in other
countries live;  the American culture doesn't give a damn.  And yet we
do whatever we please, automatically assuming that it is for the good of
the people we do not understand.  "If it's good for America, it's good for
the World."

	Please continue commenting.  If nothing else, it will remind us
that there are other people in the world.

                                     Jon Bayh
				     ihnp4!inuxc!isrnix!jon