My heart is Canadian/European but my body is in the US

[Mari333]

Every day I watch the news and see more underhanded tricks and dirty pool by the GOP...the horrors and fears our family has gone through since * got in, my job loss, my mother's bankruptcy, my son almost being forced over to Iraq, and now my stepson possibly going..
and the AARP, once a stalwart of social programs for seniors, lying down like dogs and rolling over to fast bucks pharmaceutical companies and corporate lobbyists..
I have filled out my questionnaire as to whether legal immigration status in Canada applies to me and my husband as we retire..If * gets back in for 4 years, there is no way I can watch my savings and retirement dwindle to nothing...I will soon find out if Im eligible for immigration...My husband is going up to Windsor in the summer and getting an apartment..in the meantime, we wait..if * gets in, we leave for good. If * is out, we will stay in the US. I cant wait and watch myself living in a completely Fascist country if * is elected. If I immigrate, and become a Canadian citizen, then my kids can follow me if they want to.
I dont fit in here. Im an agnostic/atheist in a very near theocracy. I am an environmentalist, a feminist, and I dont believe in the US as a military superpower..I am Canadian/European at heart in my beliefs, and I feel like a fish out of water , stifling to death in the US now.
Thats my rant.

[Maple]

1. We'd love to have ya!

Welcome to Canada eh!

[Tesha]

2. My husband and I will join you there...

We've been talking about it for a couple of years, and we just can't imagine what else those idiots are going to push though to further damage our country... and then they do something else beyond belief... and more years? frightening

[newyawker99]

17. Hi Tesha!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Maple]

3. We'd love to have ya!

Welcome to Canada eh!

[Maple]

4. We'd love to have ya!

Welcome to Canada eh!

[Tesha]

5. My husband and I will join you there...

We've been talking about it for a couple of years, and we just can't imagine what else those idiots are going to push though to further damage our country... and then they do something else beyond belief... and more years? frightening

[Maple]

6. LOL Okay

the welcome wagon here is overdoing it for some reason.

Sorry about the multiple posts.

But you are welcome. :D

[Holly]

7. Join us , eh

you'll be among friends.

[Sticky]

8. We'd be happy to have you!

Windsor is nice..... but Nova Scotia is nicer. ;)

[Mari333]

9. I guess they wont take us as "skilled workers"

But we have a substantial amount of money saved up. Maybe they would allow us in with that. God, I wish I were RELATED TO SOMEONE in Canada. Ill keep trying.

[Sticky]

10. Hey, I can adopt you!

.....I've been through several home studies and my home is government approved for newborns, refugees, foster children, adoptions and strays of all kinds.

Just pack up your skates and head north! :)

[Interrobang]

11. Welcome aboard!

We'll be glad to have you. Sorry you're moving to Windsor, though. It's a real hole. (Apologies to those on DU who live in Windsor; I've been there many times and I'm still looking for something to like about it.) Well, at least if you were there, you'd be close to me here in London! We could have the first-ever Canadian DU get-together! :)

[CanuckAmok]

12. Windsor is "Detroit Junior", according to Mary Walsh

Here's an article someone sent me a couple of days ago. Sorry I don't have a link to the original...

This is actually worth reading...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Canada article

You live next door to a clean-cut, quiet guy. He never plays loud music or throws raucous parties. He doesn't gossip over the fence, just smiles politely and offers you some tomatoes. His lawn is cared-for, his house is neat as a pin and you get the feeling he doesn't always lock his front door.

He wears Dockers. You hardly know he's there. And then one day you discover that he has pot in his basement, spends his weekends at peace marches and that guy you've seen mowing the yard is his spouse. Allow me to introduce Canada.

The Canadians are so quiet that you may have forgotten they're up there, but they've been busy doing some surprising things. It's like discovering that the mice you are dimly aware of in your attic have been building an espresso machine.

Did you realize, for example, that our reliable little tag-along brother never joined the Coalition of the Willing? Canada wasn't willing, as it turns out, to join the fun in Iraq. I can only assume American diner menus weren't angrily changed to include "freedom bacon," because nobody here eats the stuff anyway.

EDITED BY ADMIN: COPYRIGHT

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
Author: Samantha Bennett

[Hogarth]

18. I'm going to check out London ...

... and I appreciate the advice. What a dandy address that would be and, if you're vouching for it, I'll bypass Windsor in favor of London. Thanks.

[SmileyBoy]

13. I'm moving to Canada after college, fascism or not.

There's no way in HELL they're going to imprison me in the US if we become totalitarian by 2010. If things get better in the US, I'm still moving out regardless. I'll find a way to move to Canada right after I get my college degree. The good news is that I'm only a 2 1/2 hour drive (160 miles) from the border.

[CanuckAmok]

14. Canada can't help you, I'm afraid...

if the US really did 'go totalitarian byt 2010', Canada would be occupied, no doubt "for our own good".

I keep thinking about the "Elbow Room" segment on Schoolhouse Rock, and that whole "Manifest Destiny" bugbear...

If BFEE stays in power after 2004, we're hightailing it to New Zealand.

[SmileyBoy]

16. I don't think our govt. has the stupidity to invade Canada.

They're evil, but they're not stupid. If that type of thing happened, then UN forces would invade the US, We'd fire missles at Russia and France and China, they'd fire back, and "that's the whole ball game", as Walter Cronkite would say.

There's NO SCENARIO WHATSOEVER resulting in a non-nuclear conclusion for the US invading Canada. The US invades Canada, and that's the end.

And don't be humble about yourself as a Canadian. Just hypothetically, do you really believe that your whole country would just sit idly by and submit if US forces invaded??? You wouldn't raise up and kick some ass???

That's why even Chimpy and his henchmen know it would be stupid to do that. It would be suicide.

[scucci]

15. Nothing against Canada or Europe

but I'm staying in my beloved Missouri and I'm doing whatever I can to get my country back. That is all.