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From: chapman@fornax.uucp
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Free trade, Canadian culture, $$
Message-ID: <190@fornax.uucp>
Date: Sat, 21-Feb-87 00:37:54 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 21 00:37:54 1987
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Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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> In article <185@fornax.uucp> chapman@fornax.uucp (John Chapman) writes:
> >
> >The points are simple:
> >
> >$1.2 billion is sucked out of the canadian economy every year - I don't
> >know too many people who would think it's a bad idea to try and keep
> >some of this (*our*) money in our economy rather than sending it south.
> 
> Actually, I don't care.  It's not 'our' money.  It's each individual
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Well you should because keeping some of that money in Canada would
create jobs->lower unemployment->(lower taxes, lower uic premiums for
employers and employees alike). If you don't care about stuff like
this then you have no right to whine about government spending either:
either you look at the whole system or not at all.
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> Platoon was, if you couldn't figure it out, a satirical example.
 And irrelevant to the original point.
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> Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473

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