HarveyH42 said:I thought canadian police rode horses, like in the movies. Must have fast horses up there, or are they passing out parking tickets...
I still don't see poverty as the root of all evil in America. There are plenty of jobs, if you want to work. My job doesn't require any special training or skills. They'll hire just about anybody who can pass a drug test. I hate my job, dread getting up at 1:00 AM to go to work, but have been doing it for over 14 years now. And in less than two more years, I'll be the proud owner of my house. If I can do it, anybody can.
Optikon said:Population of ALL of Canada: 33,098,932 (2006 Est)
Population of Just New York: 19,254,630 (2005 Est)
Population of UK: 60,609,153 (2006 Est)
All this Crime discussion is Apples & Oranges. When Canada gets populated enough, maybe the discussions can have more meaning. It seems to me that the crime statistics & behaviors are very dynamic & non-linear with vast populations of people. If only 33M people of Canada were hypthetically spread across the globe, crime would likely be very nearly zero. Now, cram them all into a space only twice the size of New York, I bet it is a very different story. Cost of living is higher, local resources are more scarce, competition for jobs is more demanding, much more diverse population (you get the religious nuts living next to the athiests etc..)
audioguru said:The USA has everything:
Guns, crime, more criminals than police, poor education, drugs, poverty, crowding, religious nuts and athiests.
Did I miss out something?
audioguru said:The USA has everything:
Guns, crime, more criminals than police, poor education, drugs, poverty, crowding, religious nuts and athiests.
Did I miss out something?
HarveyH42 said:What about the mental problems? Mothers killing their own children, kids planning/exicuting mass murder plots at their schools, pedophiles, necrophiles, gay marriages, cannibalism, beastiality. These are just from the headlines of the past year...
Optikon said:yeah, but is it because it _happens_ more often or is it that we _catch_ it happening more often? When you have a population knocking on the 300M doorstep, there is bound to be a few necrophiles etc... it's all statistics.
No, I believe they prefer DUCK.audioguru said:Is poverty so bad "in the good old USA" that the very poor folks practise CANNIBALISM?
audioguru said:The USA has everything:
Guns, crime, more criminals than police, poor education, drugs, poverty, crowding, religious nuts and athiests.
Did I miss out something?
I've seen that picture. It's pretty funny.audioguru said:I saw a pic of The President of The USA and his dad fishing in a flooded street of New Orleans after a hurricane. People in the background were looting.
Do the Bushes know how to read and write?
HiTech said:Plenty of other nations have the very same. Where the differences lie is what % of each per capita. I'd vote poor education as the least of the problems listed. That issue has been vastly improved overall.
..and create new onesYes, but from a more philosophical point of view, better education can solve/improve a great deal of the other problems
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