{"id":7944,"date":"2014-08-30T06:43:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T06:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/08\/30\/canadian-top-10-list\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T06:43:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T06:43:48","slug":"canadian-top-10-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/08\/30\/canadian-top-10-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Top 10 List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nThis is Canada&#8217;s<br \/>\n\tTop Ten List of America&#8217;s<br \/>\n\tStupidity. Of course we look like idiots&#8230;. because we are.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNumber 10 &#8211; Only in America&#8230;<br \/>\n\tcould politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 per plate Obama campaign fund-raising event.<\/p>\n<p>\tNumber 9 &#8211; Only in America&#8230; <br \/>\n\tcould people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General and roughly 20% of the federal workforce is black while only 14% of the population is black 40+% of all federal entitlements goes to black Americans &#8211; 3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to Hispanics!<\/p>\n<p>\tNumber 8 &#8211; Only in America&#8230;<br \/>\n\tcould they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy<br \/>\n\tGeithner (former head of the Treasury Department) and Charles Rangel (who once<br \/>\n\tran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in<br \/>\n\tfavor of higher taxes.<\/p>\n<p>\tNumber 7 &#8211; Only in America&#8230; can<br \/>\n\tthey have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media<br \/>\n\tprimarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.<\/p>\n<p>\tNumber 6 &#8211; Only in America&#8230; would they<br \/>\n\tmake people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in<br \/>\n\ttheir home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege,<br \/>\n\twhile they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just<br \/>\n\t&#8216;magically&#8217; become American citizens (probably should be number one).<\/p>\n<p>\tNUMBER 5 &#8211; Only in America&#8230;.<br \/>\n\tcould the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the<br \/>\n\tcountry&#8217;s Constitution be thought of as EXTREMISTS.<\/p>\n<p>\tNumber 4 &#8211; Only in America&#8230;<br \/>\n\tcould you need to present a driver&#8217;s license to cash a check or buy alcohol,<br \/>\n\tbut not to vote.<\/p>\n<p>\tNumber 3 &#8211; Only in America&#8230;<br \/>\n\tcould people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are<br \/>\n\tgouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity<br \/>\n\tinvested in a major U.S. Oil company(Marathon Oil) is less than half of a<br \/>\n\tcompany making tennis shoes (Nike).<\/p>\n<p>\tNumber 2 &#8211; Only in America&#8230; could you<br \/>\n\tcollect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history,<br \/>\n\tstill spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year &#8211; for total spending<br \/>\n\tof $7-Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn&#8217;t have nearly enough<br \/>\n\tmoney.<\/p>\n<p>\tAnd Number 1 &#8211; Only in America&#8230;<br \/>\n\tcould the rich people- who pay 86% of all income taxes &#8211; be accused of not<br \/>\n\tpaying their &quot;fair share&quot; by people who don&#8217;t pay any income taxes at<br \/>\n\tall.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> CC Roller on October 2, 2014, 12:23 am<\/p>\n<div>Skinny<\/p>\n<p>\tWhere did you get the list?  I love it.  Being a Canadian I would like to find out.<\/p>\n<p>\tCC Roller<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Skinny on October 2, 2014, 2:16 am<\/p>\n<div>I don&#8217;t really remember where I got this list.  I suspect someone emailed it to me.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Dr Crapology on October 27, 2014, 12:05 pm<\/p>\n<div>Skinny, you are correct sometimes we are idiots.<\/p>\n<p>\tDoc<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Canada&#8217;s Top Ten List of America&#8217;s Stupidity. Of course we look like idiots&#8230;. because we are. 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