things I want to keep. I love that quote

[katster]

"Our country right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be
put right." - Carl Schurz


http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jun02/voice.htm

More on Carl Schurz (including some nifty quotes):
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAschurz.htm


My country. I am a liberal. I am also a patriot. People don't understand this combination. How can I love my country and still want to move to Canada?

Well, there's different kinds of love. I am disappointed in my country, I must confess. It's hard to sit here when it looks like the leaders of my country don't give a damn about the constitution. I don't like the selfishness that many of my fellow countrymen have. That is, "I got mine, Jack, screw you." It feels like people would rather have me out on the street caught in the mess that is untreated bipolar disorder rather than the (mostly) productive citizen I am now. I'm scared to death of losing my health insurance. I'd like to fix this mess, but I don't know how. And that makes me feel like I don't belong in my own country, which is a country I love. I can't hear 'America the Beautiful' without nearly crying.

There's a dream. It's not the reality.

Which is why I could be both an American and a Canadian. Canada feels more sensible to me, and that they care about their citizenry. Of course, there is the Alliance, but...you can't have perfection.

So here I am, stuck in the States, and not sure whether it's worth the time and effort to fight.

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[netdancer.livejournal.com]

$Libeterian_Friend said to me: "If you want economic well-being, you live in the US. If you want social well-being you live in Canada."

[smcwhort.livejournal.com]

<snort> ... have "$Libeterian_Friend" tell that joke about "economic well-being" to the people who've been out of work for six months or more.