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Originally posted by Frenchie Free health care.

oh do you pay. just in a different way.

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Originally posted by Omega_M Health Care is not free. Everybody eventually pays up through taxes.

just to also let everyone know, your taxes pay mine [and a few others on here] salary.

thanks!

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Originally posted by tubularbills just to also let everyone know, your taxes pay mine [and a few others on here] salary. thanks!

*Salute* Just keep protecting our country from the weather.

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Originally posted by Omega_M Freedom is not free.

Fixed to apply to Sparta.

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Originally posted by Sunsnail *Salute* Just keep protecting our country from the weather.

indeed.

I love the education system.

"He who holds the knowledge, holds the most marbles", or somethin'

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Originally posted by Sunsnail *Salute* Just keep protecting our country from the weather.

that's my job!

-Healthcare coverage (whether we pay it in taxes or not, I like it this way)
-Freedom
-Equality amongst our people
-A legal system that is more on the honest, less corrupt side of things
-Educational System (there are a lot of little things that could be improved, but we are lucky that we all have the opportunity to go to school... mandatory in fact).
-Freedom
-Amazing landscape

Canada is an amazing country, and I don't think a lot of our citizens realize how lucky we are.

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Originally posted by tubularbills that's my job!

do you happen to be stationed at barksdale?

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Originally posted by guster do you happen to be stationed at barksdale?

yup yup. been here since december [august, officially, but i was on TDY to biloxi, ms].

other things i love about this country:

landscape - from mountains to valleys, even the flattest parts of iowa are still sometimes amazing looking.

education. it may have cost me $25k in student loans, but the idea of being able to go to college and pay for it [albeit in the long run] by myself.

just overal freedom. i do what i want, when i want. there are consequences to everything, of course, but the idea that i can just get in my car and GO somewhere or DO something, i think, is extraordinary.

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Originally posted by Theresa -Healthcare coverage (whether we pay it in taxes or not, I like it this way) -Freedom -Equality amongst our people -A legal system that is more on the honest, less corrupt side of things -Educational System (there are a lot of little things that could be improved, but we are lucky that we all have the opportunity to go to school... mandatory in fact). -Freedom -Amazing landscape Canada is an amazing country, and I don't think a lot of our citizens realize how lucky we are.

+1 to all of that. When I was about 17 my mother and I took a week and a half and drove from Montreal to Vancouver and the scenery, which at times was a little boring, was still amazing.

you were bored driving through the praries... UNTIL YOU SAW THE WORLDS LARGEST TEEPEE!! you must have driven through medicine hat, it's on the number 1... and so is THE WORLDS LARGEST TEEPEE.