Why do Americans think Canada is a socialist country?

[big al]

becuse they are unamerican, and a communist dicktatorship.

[spot the cat]

only the brain-dead ditto-heads that listen to rush, or faux nues

[Katie]

Fox News would not be allowed in Canada. The Canadian economy is 50% under government control. Free speech is limited.

Also Canadians freeload off American military protection. They spend little on national defence and expect Americans to pay to protect them. In this regard they are much like socialist Europe.

[mammothgrass857]

Healthcare, medicine.

Other than that I don't know or think much about Camada. Or care for that matter.

[hugetiger762]

you don't let people starve to death and you refuse to punish people for poverty by allowing them to die through lack of medical care




your are socialists

[mikal_1978]

It's easier than doing research and having to deal with "facts".

[justagrandma]

Americans don't know any more what anything is, the Republicans keep telling us about this -ism and that -ism and they just think because that's what they hear that's whats correct.

Hopefully it will pass before we all turn into Palin-brained idiots.

[Mark G]

No one I know thinks Canada is socialist. Most Americans love Canada. We do not want the socialized health care that Canada has because we do not like the high taxes that come with it. Every country that has a health care program like Canada's has those high taxes. We also worry about the speed in which treatment can be obtained. The US population is much bigger than Canada's and it would take a lot more doctors to cover all 300+ million people than we presently have. It is going to be hard to attract people into medicinal fields when the pay scale drops. More and more doctors in the US are dropping Medicare and Medicaid patients because the government is dropping the amount they pay for treatment and is so slow paying the bills. That sounds good to college kids that for the most part are not paying much tax yet but when the government starts taking 40% of your paycheck it gets old fast.
I want health care reform in the US but not government controlled. The government has never shown it can run anything successfully here.
BTW just to note after the US athletes I root for Canada next in the Olympics.

[Pete]

yes i understand what socialism is. it has NOTHING to do with Canada, period. it has to do with a 2,700 page health care bill in our congress. things here run differently. you have a parliment. we have a congress.
2,700 hundred pages. you going to read it? our own politicans did not even read it!