You are correct to recognize many of the natural synergies, commonalities, & shared history, but you have it backwards…

Canada will be the one acquiring the United States. With it’s gigantic trade and fiscal surpluses and massive natural resources as collateral, Canada is arranging – with a consortium of foreign banks – the largest leveraged buyout in history. And thanks to the current financial meltdown & depressed prices in America, Canada is likely to see a immediate return on investment.

God save the Queen.

What if we take a look at what happened to the Roman Empire _after_ it had over-extended its reach into Britain? Rome created its own competition and the resentment that lead to its collapse.

If it had never overstretched its capacity to rule, Europe and Rome would undoubtedly be different, but that doesn’t mean that the world would be significantly better or worse today.

Romes’ short term success has been taken as a model for justifying military aggression. I propose that it should be viewed as an example of how irrational ambition leads to political and economic collapse. The Roman Empire went from being a superpower to extinct within a few generations.

I suggest that we learn from Romes’ failure. Instead of trying to defend a territory with a much larger and indefensible border (look at Canada’s border to area ratio) do a strategic contraction.

Give Alaska to Canada. Aside from the fact that the original sale of Alaska to the US as an uncolonized, uncontrolled tract was not a legitimate sale of an owned asset, Alaska today has little or no net value to the rest of the US.

The small amount of oil that can be pumped from Alaskan offshore deposits doesn’t justify the cost of recovery and transportation. That money could be used more profitably by developing clean methods to utilize the oil shale reserves within the continental US. That technology could be leased to Canada, enriching both countries and providing economic stability.

Canada has been much more successful than the US in preserving natural resources. While the US has stripped its continental territory of timber, topsoil and minerals in an effort to build its economy and “defend the free world”, Canada has been the primary beneficiary, and has preserved its assets. Allowing Alaska to revert to wilderness would go a long way toward restoring greenhouse gas balance, and would limit the geographic area that the US would need to manage if global warming were to continue.

Similar arguments could be made for giving Hawaii national independence an relinquishing claims to territories that are not located within 100 miles of the continental US.

And this is quite a whopper, you bet you have contradictions to address…

On one hand he promotes the ‘corporate acquisition’ of Canada and on the other hand, he condemns the same corporations and wallstreet for their greed and exploitation (refer to “Maybe all this misery is just payback”). If Bing actually expects his ridiculous charismatic movement is going to work, why on Earth does he condemn the same vehicle that drives it? How incoherent.

Furthermore, with the very well-known fact that the United States faces outrageous debt due to its promised social programs, massive recent deficits and now billions in corporate (yes, that word again) bailouts, what makes you think that Canadians, a more debt-conscious people than their southern neighbors are going to simply assume trillions more in liabilities they didn’t create?

If the acquisition doesn’t happen by 2012, when US social reforms take shape, then the strain on the american people FOR the american people will simply silence these pathetic proposals.

Observe your own administrative and financial failures, especially in recent days…and remember this council:
You must learn to manage yourself before you can manage others.

Americans are good people, I have many relatives and friends accross the border. But, I don’t want the issues of their nation.

There are just 1.2 million people in Manitoba. Offer each of them $100,000 in return for Manitoba joining the union. The resulting referendum would pass without any problems.

$120 Billion sounds like a lot, but compared to the cost of say the Iraq invasion – which will result in no new territory for the US – it’s a deal. Manitoba would provide a new area the size of Texas with farming in the south, oil in the south-west, large mines and lots of forestry in the north, and hydro-electricity that already powers part of the US grid. There’s a whole lot of fresh water.

The US would get a major northern port in Churchill – the closest port to the European markets for just about all of the US – just as global warming opens it up year-round. It would have a better claim to the right to use the North-West Passage. Missile defenses could be placed further north – say, at the rocketry range near Churchill.

And since Manitoba would be part of the US, that $120 Billion would be dumped right back into the US economy. There’d even be an even distribution – as a million Manitobans with $100,000 and American citizenship move to warmer climates. Just the thing the housing crisis needs.

Once this happens, other Canadians will want the same deal. With the precedent set and western Canada is cut off from the east, you can pick up a more provinces for a substantial discount. With many former Canadians still having relatives in the remainder, the remainder will join through osmosis.

Have you Americans not learning from your failed attempt in Iraq?

This idea is so pathetic is hurts my brain to even think about responding to it…..Instead I think I’ll go watch Wall Street crumble on CNN as a result of its Greed.
Keep up the good work guys!

Keep it up though. This idea is too big to fail!

Eagerly awaiting the sales pitch.
Cheers

I was not asking for Tax Relief my friend, I was merely asking that everyone pay their own way. I am not ready to pin on my Karl Marx lapel pin just yet, thank you very much. I would like to expand a bit on my view on Immigration since I may be reincarnated as a third world country someday. I do not begrudge anyone a better way of life, especially one gained through hard work and following the laws of the land. In my original post I made a clear distinction about those who are currently drawing on California’s over-burdened health care system as being here illegally. I am all for immigration as long as it is done within the confines of our legal system and current immigration laws. We are a Constitutional Republic built on the concept of law and order. You mention the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island was the LEGAL gateway into a better way, there is no Statue of Liberty and certainly no Ellis island on the California / Mexico border there are no fences to speak of but there is an un-ending stream of illegals pouring into our country.

I am sorry for the plight of your girlfriend and I don’t mean to be insensitive but living in Calimexico we have a VERY large unindigenious population of people who didn’t exactly get here legally. I don’t want to be taxed at 50%+ to pay for their health care. I do not want anyone taking 50% of my success to pay for anything of anyone elses. If I get Cancer and most of us are destined to, then I will use the health care coverage I have and use the rest of whatever monies I have to pay for MY health care. Asking another to shoulder your burden, as insensitive as it may sound is NOT American (but is probably Canadian)and I suggest relocating to a more Healthcare friendly location in the North.