Votin' day

[Ben]

Im not even that riled up. I just like to rant about things that really piss me off. There is only about 4 things that really piss me off, and "educated" people spouting dumb crap is one of them. Another happens to be my country turning to crap and nobody seeming to notice.

[Ben]

No.

[SaiKar]

Free health care is never free. It just has the young supporting the costs of the old. As the young, I don't like that. But then again, as the young, I also like my parents being alive and healthy, so there's a bit of a conflict there. Still, from what I've heard of european countries full-coverage health care, it's not exactly the walk in the park that they always claim it is. Ben's rant seems to mirror the testimonies of several of my other friends, including a guy about my age that I know who is becoming a doctor over in europe.

[Grandy]

Radicals are cool people.
They fight the powah and doesnt afraid of anything.

Don't badmouth radicals just by being radical.

[Archem]

Free health care is never free.

Freedom isn't free. 'Merica.

[Prpl_Mage]

We have to pay for medicine and that stuff. But the rest is on the goverment aka the taxpayers. I don't see any problem with it though. People shouldn't have to starve just to cure a disease. And if I lose some of what I earn so that others can have a better life - so be it. It's not like I need all those munnies anyway.

[Ben]

I think what Sai was referring to with "Young and Old" was the baby boomer generation in relation to the younger ones that followed.
Im not sure if the "baby boomers" term applies to places outside of north america, but the premise is that when WW2 ended, and all the soldiers had kids....there was a huge surge in population in the USA and Canada. This generation is called the baby boom. Because there was a boom...in babies. All the soldiers came home and nailed their wives, in a nutshell.

It was anticipated that the baby boom would result in an even bigger boom in babies. But it didnt. It lead to the genration that started to question the nuclear familial unit in north america. It spawned the Feminists, the Racial Activists, the "Hippies" and drug culture (as we know it today). Homosexuals started really coming out of the woodwork then. And divorce rates began to increase.
This generation had the Gen X'er, Generation Y, and now you dudes, the "Millenials" I think they call it.

The generations that followed the baby boomers are smaller then the baby boomers. The boomers are old now, and a burden to the tax dollar of the "Young" in north america theese days. I think thats what he meant. Its todays seniors he is referring to, not seniors in general. When we are old, we wont be the same burden to the young as todays old are. As there are so many more elderly beginning to receive old age pensions and what not. And the health care systems are burdeoned by this as well, on account of...well, theyre all old now, and need pills and crap.

[Valiere]

See! Now, if everyone was Swedish, the world would be a better place.

The Swedish are like the elves of our Middle Earth.

[fruckert]

Purple elves are the best elves.

[Zerlina]

Yes. Purple elves.

Purple elves with sensible furniture you can put together out of the box.

[Prpl_Mage]

The reason why Sweden works might be because we are only about 9million people. The states (and Canada for that matter) are pretty large compared to Sweden.

[Zerlina]

We're mostly a lot of empty space actually.




EDIT: I was looking at the map and laughing at the fifth province from the left (on the south side) thinking "Hahahaha, no one wants to live there...screw you- ONTARIO!? Aw dangit."

[Valiere]

The US is actually pretty sparsely populated too (though not as sparse as Canada). The US has, I believe, the 3rd largest population but is only 178th in terms of population density.

That's because we have states like Wyoming with about 500,000 people. Think about that. The city I'm currently living in has almost 800,000 people, and it's only the fourth-largest city in Texas. My not-even-that-big city has significantly more people than an entire state -- and not even a tiny state like Rhode Island, a decent-sized one.

[Ben]

the problem with population density readings like that...Is those red dots are all one shade.

that red patch in ontarions south should be a brighter red. Much denser.



Seriously though, Look at those dots. Now tell me that there is no natural seperation between east and west in canada.

Its hard to gague our population density as opposed to our habitable land. Honestly, the red patches are only going to get more red, and the white are just going to stay white. So many mountains and hills and so much tundra and marsh in the north. Its like...Hyboria

[Valiere]

It's like you're all huddled up next to the US.

Like you're coming onto us or something.

Creepy.