Obamanation here today

[klein]

What Obama can't stop saying

He's known for his flair with the spoken word but can't help repeating this, over and over again.» It's not 'Yes, we can'
(click the above blue link for more).

[klein]

And more Obama News :

Health care reform clears a US Senate hurdle, wins bonus backing from moderate Republican

Oct.13th, 2009 By Steven R. Hurst, The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's vow to reform the U.S. health care system cleared a key hurdle Tuesday with a bonus vote from a moderate Republican whose backing could be key to final passage.

Members of the 23-member Senate finance committee voted 14-9 to approve the legislation, setting up a historic debate on the Senate floor and moving health care overhaul closer to reality than it has been for decades.

The measure meets most of the requirements set out by Obama, who promised voters during the presidential campaign to overhaul a system by extending insurance coverage to virtually all Americans, lowering medical costs and ending insurance industry practices of refusing protection to people with so-called pre-existing conditions or dropping coverage to those who become seriously ill.

Excepting Sen. Olympia Snowe, opposition Republicans are battling the overhaul plans, claiming the Democrats' measure will unduly increase the national debt and wrongly intrude on the private sector. And some members of the opposition party see it as a chance to score political points by sinking a measure at the core of Obama's presidency.

Most controversial among those issues would be establishment of a government program in competition with the private insurance industry. That was written out of the Senate Finance Committee but remains part of three reform plans passed by committees in the House of Representatives.

Snow said she was laying aside misgivings for now and voting to advance the bill, a sweeping $829 billion, 10-year health care remake. "When history calls, history calls," said Snowe.

Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Democrat, called his bill "a commonsense, balanced solution." A distance runner, Baucus has endured months of marathon meetings to get this far. It is not the finish line.

Health care legislation is expected to be on the Senate floor the week after next, said a spokesman for Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid. But it will not be Baucus' bill. Reid will combine the Finance version with a more liberal proposal from the health committee - with unpredictable results.

The Senate Finance Committee's plan would require most Americans to purchase insurance and usher in a host of other changes to the $2.5 trillion U.S. medical system. The U.S. is the only industrialized country without universal health care coverage, and about 47 million Americans are uninsured.

Much work lies ahead before a bill could arrive on Obama's desk, but passage by the Finance Committee marks a significant advance. Snowe voted yes after heavy courting by the Democrats who saw her as the best chance for breaking the partisan barrier.

She became the first Republican to support a health overhaul bill. The health legislation that passed three House committees and one other Senate panel did so without a single Republican vote.

Sen. Charles Grassley, top Republican on the Finance Committee, said in advance that the reform measure was "moving on a slippery slope to more and more government control of health care."

The four other congressional committees acted before August to pass health legislation, so for months all eyes have been on the Finance Committee, the remaining one. It is also the panel whose moderate makeup most closely resembles the Senate as a whole. The committee's centrist legislation is seen as the best building block for a compromise plan that could find favour on the Senate floor.

With Finance Committee passage, Obama's top domestic priority advances beyond former President Bill Clinton's effort ever did. The Clinton health plan never made it through all the congressional committees with jurisdiction.

When the Senate floor debate starts, Republicans, while a minority, still hold sufficient votes to stall passage through a delaying procedure known as a filibuster.

That move is expected and would require majority Democrats to muster all 60 of their votes, not a simple majority of 51, to end debate and bring a bill to a final vote. Some fiscally conservative Democrats are opposed to the bill coming out of the committee, so that gaining the 60 votes to break a filibuster is far from certain.

And even if that happens, the health care bill would then move to what is known as a conference committee to meld the Senate bill with one passed by the House.
The lower house, where the Democrats have a heftier majority and delaying tactics are not possible, is considering three versions of the legislation, any one of them assured of passage and far more inclusive of an outcome sought by the White House.
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[Baba gounj]

Interesting, they keep voting to pass a bill that has not even been written yet. Is this how the New World Order works ?

[moreluck]

BREAKING NEWS: This just in!!!



Obama wins the Heisman Trophy after

watching a college football game!!!

[fact check]

Breaking News!!!

Moreluck just cut and pasted another chain email!!!

[moreluck]

I searched and added that picture all by myself.....it's a co-creation !!

I made it more attractive !!

[1989]

If he's lucky he may even get the Vince Lombardi trophy before the playoffs even start!!!

[moreluck]

Yes, this was sent to me in an e-mail and it is indeed "cut & pasted" for your perusal.


Unawareness or Lying?



Barack Obama, through his spokesman, claimed that he was unaware of the thousands protesting at tax day tea parties across the nation.

Granted, the Main Stream Media has done a good job in suppressing any sort of coverageahead of time -- and the tiny bit of coverage they did provide was derisive at best -- but how out of touchis this Community Organizer in Chief, really?

How about this much:

He was unaware that he was attending a church (for 20 years) with a racist pastor whohates America.


He was unaware that he was family friends with, and started his political career in theliving room of, a domestic terrorist.


He was unaware that he had invested in two speculative companies backed by some ofhis top donors right after taking office in 2005.


He was unaware that his own aunt was living in the US illegally.


He was unaware that his own brother lives on pennies a day in a hut in Kenya .


He was unaware of the AIG bonuses that he and his administration approved and signedinto a bill.


He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of Commerce was underinvestigation in a bribery scandal.


He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of Health and HumanServices was a tax cheat.


-He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of the Treasury wasa tax cheat.


He was unaware that the man he nominated to be the U.S. Trade Representative wasa tax cheat.


He was unaware that the woman he nominated to be his Chief Performance Officer wasa tax cheat.



For the love of God, there are people in comas
who are more awareof world affairs than this man.

[toonertoo]

Originally Posted by Baba gounj

Interesting, they keep voting to pass a bill that has not even been written yet. Is this how the New World Order works ?

No this is how the new world order works

YouTube - WARNING! Goodbye U.S Sovereignty... Hello One World Government !

YouTube - WARNING! Goodbye U.S Sovereignty... Hello One World Government !

[Baba gounj]

Originally Posted by toonertoo

No this is how the new world order works
YouTube - WARNING! Goodbye U.S Sovereignty... Hello One World Government !

I already have started another thread about this nice subject; of course nobody replied.

[Lue C Fur]

Originally Posted by moreluck

Yes, this was sent to me in an e-mail and it is indeed "cut & pasted" for your perusal.


Unawareness or Lying?



Barack Obama, through his spokesman, claimed that he was unaware of the thousands protesting at tax day tea parties across the nation.

Granted, the Main Stream Media has done a good job in suppressing any sort of coverageahead of time -- and the tiny bit of coverage they did provide was derisive at best -- but how out of touchis this Community Organizer in Chief, really?

How about this much:

He was unaware that he was attending a church (for 20 years) with a racist pastor whohates America.


He was unaware that he was family friends with, and started his political career in theliving room of, a domestic terrorist.


He was unaware that he had invested in two speculative companies backed by some ofhis top donors right after taking office in 2005.


He was unaware that his own aunt was living in the US illegally.


He was unaware that his own brother lives on pennies a day in a hut in Kenya .


He was unaware of the AIG bonuses that he and his administration approved and signedinto a bill.


He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of Commerce was underinvestigation in a bribery scandal.


He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of Health and HumanServices was a tax cheat.


-He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of the Treasury wasa tax cheat.


He was unaware that the man he nominated to be the U.S. Trade Representative wasa tax cheat.


He was unaware that the woman he nominated to be his Chief Performance Officer wasa tax cheat.



For the love of God, there are people in comas
who are more awareof world affairs than this man.

You forgot the one where is was "unaware" that Acorn was getting our tax dollars:

YouTube - Obama changes the subject when ACORN comes up

YouTube - Obama changes the subject when ACORN comes up

[The Other Side]

Originally Posted by moreluck

Yes, this was sent to me in an e-mail and it is indeed "cut & pasted" for your perusal.


Unawareness or Lying?

Barack Obama, through his spokesman, claimed that he was unaware of the thousands protesting at tax day tea parties across the nation.

Granted, the Main Stream Media has done a good job in suppressing any sort of coverageahead of time -- and the tiny bit of coverage they did provide was derisive at best -- but how out of touchis this Community Organizer in Chief, really?

How about this much:

He was unaware that he was attending a church (for 20 years) with a racist pastor whohates America.

He was unaware that he was family friends with, and started his political career in theliving room of, a domestic terrorist.

He was unaware that he had invested in two speculative companies backed by some ofhis top donors right after taking office in 2005.

He was unaware that his own aunt was living in the US illegally.

He was unaware that his own brother lives on pennies a day in a hut in Kenya .

He was unaware of the AIG bonuses that he and his administration approved and signedinto a bill.

He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of Commerce was underinvestigation in a bribery scandal.

He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of Health and HumanServices was a tax cheat.

-He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of the Treasury wasa tax cheat.

He was unaware that the man he nominated to be the U.S. Trade Representative wasa tax cheat.

MORELUCK,

over the years, Ive come to know you as one of the UN-informed americans on this board and one that is easily manipulated by exagerated propaganda.

You should really do some research on nazi propaganda during wwII and how it helped to motivate its people to do and say stupid things, then compare it with the right wings tactics in this country from 2000 to present day and ask yourself if you have been duped.

Your cut and paste "junk" is so full of exagerations and untruths, that it would take someone with "less than" education to believe anything on that page.

Rather than waste my time trying to convince you line by line from your cut and paste, lets just address one of them.

"He was unaware that his own brother lives on pennies a day in a hut in Kenya ."

THAT IS NOT HIS BROTHER. Its a Half brother 3 times removed from him.

How is he responsible or remotely required to keep tabs on half sibblings around the world that he knows nothing about. Thats the responsiblity of his father, not him.

How many kids does YOUR father have that you know nothing about, and what is there current financial situation?

The right wing attempts to twist and make issue with the dumbest things and those that follow believe everything they are sent...but thats the problem, you dont even know youre being used by the fact that you are recieving such emails.

How do you think those emails get started in the first place?

They come directly out of the RNC and sent to subscribers. They are well crafted and designed to get people to forward them without researching the accuracy of the content. They are intended to "inflame" and once that happens, the reader then forwards it on.

This is propaganda.

Funny, I have never recieved anything like this from the DNC or friends who are liberal democrats.

Why is it that only republicans get these types of emails, huh?

Id tell you, but youd say I was insulting you, so I wont.

[diesel96]

Originally Posted by moreluck

Yes, this was sent to me in an e-mail and it is indeed "cut & pasted" for your perusal.


Unawareness or Lying?



Barack Obama, through his spokesman, claimed that he was unaware of the thousands protesting at tax day tea parties across the nation.

Granted, the Main Stream Media has done a good job in suppressing any sort of coverageahead of time -- and the tiny bit of coverage they did provide was derisive at best -- but how out of touchis this Community Organizer in Chief, really?

How about this much:

He was unaware that he was attending a church (for 20 years) with a racist pastor whohates America.


He was unaware that he was family friends with, and started his political career in theliving room of, a domestic terrorist.


He was unaware that he had invested in two speculative companies backed by some ofhis top donors right after taking office in 2005.


He was unaware that his own aunt was living in the US illegally.


He was unaware that his own brother lives on pennies a day in a hut in Kenya .


He was unaware of the AIG bonuses that he and his administration approved and signedinto a bill.


He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of Commerce was underinvestigation in a bribery scandal.


He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of Health and HumanServices was a tax cheat.


-He was unaware that the man he nominated to be his Secretary of the Treasury wasa tax cheat.


He was unaware that the man he nominated to be the U.S. Trade Representative wasa tax cheat.


He was unaware that the woman he nominated to be his Chief Performance Officer wasa tax cheat.



For the love of God, there are people in comas
who are more awareof world affairs than this man.

And your point is?? I saw this chain E-mail posted months ago and I’m sure more trivial jibberish could be added to it. While I could go through and make comparisons to the Bush Admin and his band of idiots, at what point do we limit such comparisons as being useless.
I truly hope that the Right is “aware” that if they think the problems of the world will go away in 2012, they are sadly mistaken.

[moreluck]

The problems of the world won't go away in 2012 because O. will have created a big mess by then.

[klein]

Originally Posted by moreluck

The problems of the world won't go away in 2012 because O. will have created a big mess by then.

What world problems ?
If you haven't heard yet, Europe (besides the UK), Asia, Canada, Austrailia, to name a few, are long out of the recession.

It's your internal problem to solve now. The one that Bush left behind !

[moreluck]

I was referring to the world problems mentioned by diesel.

[klein]

Originally Posted by moreluck

I was referring to the world problems mentioned by diesel.

Sorry, more, yours I didn't have to edit !

Problems in the middle east.... they won't go away in our lifetime !

[Baba gounj]

But I thought that BHO was going to make the world a better place by having everyone sit down and talk out their conflicts ?

[Jones]

There is nothing new under the sun.

NYT condemns what it calls "Obama's cover-up"

A leading pro-Obama outlet says he "has clung to Bush's expansive claims of national security and executive power."
Glenn Greenwald
Oct. 26, 2009 |
(updated below)

The New York Times Editorial Page has long been one of the most reliable and vocal pro-Obama outlets in the nation. When they endorsed him for President, they praised his "strength of will, character and intellect, sober judgment and a cool, steady hand," attributes they said he possesses in "abundance," and predicted he would provide "sensible leadership, compassionate leadership, honest leadership and strong leadership." Throughout this year, their praise of him has been fulsome and their criticisms rare and restrained. Most recently, they made numerous arguments as to why he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. I could go on, but I assume the pro-Obama bona fides of The New York Times Editorial Page are well established.

That's what makes this morning's scathing condemnation of Obama so notable. As suggested by the editorial's headline -- "The Cover-Up Continues" -- the NYT accuses Obama of complicity in shielding Bush war crimes from disclosure and accountability, and worse, details the numerous, radical Bush/Cheney powers embraced by Obama in order to accomplish this. It begins this way:

The Obama administration has clung for so long to the Bush administration’s expansive claims of national security and executive power that it is in danger of turning President George W. Bush’s cover-up of abuses committed in the name of fighting terrorism into President Barack Obama’s cover-up.
We have had recent reminders of this dismaying retreat from Mr. Obama’s passionate campaign promises to make a break with Mr. Bush’s abuses of power, a shift that denies justice to the victims of wayward government policies and shields officials from accountability.

The numerous examples provided by the NYT are all well-known to readers here. Contrary to the central strawman invariably raised by his defenders, none of the complaints is grounded in the objection that Obama "has failed to act quickly enough" to repudiate Bush/Cheney abuses. Let's repeat that: none of the criticisms of Obama from the NYT today -- or from civil libertarians generally -- is grounded in the complaint that he hasn't acted quickly enough. The opposite is true: the complaint is that he has actively and affirmatively embraced those very policies as his own -- the very policies which Democrats and liberals almost unanimously claimed for years they found so offensive and dangerous -- and he has vigorously defended them and repeatedly applied them in numerous circumstances.

The NYT documents only a fraction of the examples where this is true: Obama's embrace of both Bush's arguments and threats to coerce a British court to keep concealed details of how Binyam Mohamed was tortured ("an inappropriate threat that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton repeated"); Obama's ongoing assertions of the same radically broad "state secrets" privilege used by Bush/Cheney to block judicial review of presidential lawbreaking ("the Obama administration has repeated a disreputable Bush-era argument"); the fact that Obama "has aggressively pursued such immunity in numerous other cases beyond the ones involving Mr. Mohamed"; and Obama's "flip-flop last May [when he] decided to resist orders by two federal courts to release photographs of soldiers abusing prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq," a decision that just culminated in a successful White House effort, led by Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, to "create[] an exception to the Freedom of Information Act that gave Secretary of Defense Robert Gates authority to withhold the photos."

All of that is independent of the numerous other areas where Obama has actively embraced many of the most controversial Bush/Cheney "counter-Terrorism" policies (or, more accurately: policies that were controversial when it was Bush rather than Obama defending them): indefinite detention schemes, military commissions, renditions, denial of habeas corpus rights to "War on Terror" prisoners, etc. etc. Perhaps most incriminating of all is this sentence from the NYT Editors, after noting Obama's "justification" for doing all of this:

We do not take seriously the government’s claim that it is trying to protect intelligence or avoid harm to national security.

In other words -- according to one of the President's most supportive media outlets -- the Obama administration is advancing false and pretextual claims of "national security" in order to justify radical secrecy and immunity powers: claims that should not even be "taken seriously." Does that sounds familiar?

All of this vividly underscores a vital point. There is simply no way that a person with even the most minimal levels of intellectual integrity could have objected to these actions during the Bush years yet defend them now that Obama is doing them, or even refrain from objecting just as loudly. What would it say about a person who spent years warning of the dangers posed by these very policies, yet found ways to excuse them now that there's a new President who is affirming and further institutionalizing them?

The fact that Obama has done good things in other areas or "is not as bad as Bush" in this realm doesn't negate that fact in any way. Those who were genuinely horrified by radical Bush/Cheney secrecy and immunity claims -- as opposed to those who pretended to care about those things because it was an effective Bush-bashing tool for partisan gain -- have no choice but to reach the conclusion which the NYT Editors today propounded: "The Obama administration has clung for so long to the Bush administration’s expansive claims of national security and executive power that it is in danger of turning President George W. Bush’s cover-up of abuses committed in the name of fighting terrorism into President Barack Obama’s cover-up."

* * * * *

UPDATE: In yet another largely pro-Obama outlet -- The Nation -- Julian Sanchez sounds the same theme in the context of the Obama administration's efforts to block any reforms to the Patriot Act and FISA (h/t Andrew Sullivan):

We know the rules by now, the strange conventions and stilted Kabuki scripts that govern our cartoon facsimile of a national security debate. The Obama administration makes vague, reassuring noises about constraining executive power and protecting civil liberties, but then merrily adopts whatever appalling policy George W. Bush put in place. . . . We've watched the formula play out with Guantánamo Bay, torture prosecutions and the invocation of "state secrets." We appear to be on the verge of doing the same with national security surveillance.

Sanchez details how Obama blocked the very Patriot Act and FISA reforms he not only supported when he was a Senator, but also ones he promised he would undertake when attempting to placate supporters of his who were furious that he'd violated his campaign promise by supporting the Bush/Cheney warrantless eavesdropping and telecom immunity FISA revisions. As Sanchez also describes, and as I detailed here, all of that was accomplished by disseminating pure and deceitful fear-mongering surrounding the Zazi terrorist investigation. At some point, these examples -- and those who point them out -- will pile up so high that it will be impossible for all but the blindest Obama loyalists to pretend they don't exist.

-- Glenn Greenwald

[moreluck]

Enough is Enough...........!!

Your Democratic U.S. House & Senate have voted
themselves $4,700 and $5,300 raises..

1. They voted to not give you a S.S. cost of
living raise in 2010 and 2011.

2. Your Medicaid premiums will go up $285.60 for
the 2-years and
you will not get the 3% COLA: $660/yr. Your total 2-yr
loss and cost is
-$1,600 or -$3,200 for husband and wife.

3. Over 2-yrs they each get $10,000

4. Do you feel SCREWED?

5. Will they have your cost of drugs - doctor fees
- local taxes - food, etc., increase?
NO WAY. They have a raise and better benefits. Why
care about you? You never did anything about it in the past.
You obviously are too stupid or don't care.

6. Do you really think that Nancy, Harry, Chris,
Charlie, Barnie, et al, care about you? SEND THE MESSAGE--
You're FIRED.

IN 2010 YOU WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO GET RID OF THE
SITTING CONGRESS:
Up to 1/3 OF THE SENATE, AND 100% OF THE
HOUSE.

MAKE SURE YOU'RE STILL MAD IN NOVEMBER 2010 AND REMIND
THEIR REPLACEMENTS NOT TO SCREW UP.

[moreluck]

Received this e-mail today......


Subject: This Sunday at 8:00 pm central - 9:00 pm eastern …..7:00 pm Mountain







This Sunday Fox news, is going to air a very important documentary about Barack Obama.

The report will go back to Obama's earlier days, showing even then his close ties to radical Marxist professors, friends, spiritual advisers, etc. It will also reveal details about his ties to Rev. Wright for 20+ years i.e. how he was participating with this man, and not for the reasons he states!







The report has uncovered more of Obama's radical past and we will see things that no one in the media is willing to put out there. It will be a segment to remember.
Mark your calendar and pass this on to everyone you know: Sunday night, 8 P M . CT ; 9 P M ET. Democrat or Republican, this report will open your eyes to how YOUR country is being sold down the road to Totalitarian Socialism.




If you care about the direction of our country, pass this notice on to everyone you know...

[1989]

10.2% unemployment...
Great for the market...
Not so for your neighbor.

Productivity up, employment down. Easy money, helping corporations...When will Obama team up with business to finally help employment?

[Baba gounj]

Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers:

Mamie Eisenhower: 1 paid for personally out of President's salary
Jackie Kennedy: 1
Roseline Carter: 1
Barbara Bush: 1
Hilary Clinton: 3
Laura Bush: 1
Michele Obama: 22

Michele Obama's personal staff:

1. $172,200 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Dep Asst to President and Dir of Policy And Projects for First Lady)
3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Spec Asst to the President and WH S ocial Sec for Mrs. Obama)
4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Spec Asst to President and Dir of Communications for First Lady)
5. $100,000 - Winter, Melissa E. (Spec Asst to President and Dep Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $ 90,000 - Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $ 84,000 - Lel yveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $ 75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $ 70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Dep Director of Scheduling & Events Coord For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Assoc Dir and Dep Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Spec Asst for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $43,000 - Tubman, Samanth a (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Dep Assoc Dir of Correspondence for the First Lady)
(total = $1,591,200 in annual salaries)


There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life. One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense.

Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright,
31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe .

Copyright 2009 Canada Free Press -
canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12652<http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12652>

[klein]

Just in my defense, I highy doubt Canada Free Press website above is Canadian. We wouldn't read that, nor care anything about it.
But, it sure hits the mark for wkmac, since it's another Libertarian website.

[wkmac]

WOW, I never knew Canada had so much libertarian stuff. Maybe we should abandon the New Hampshire project and go to Canada instead. All those in Canada who didn't bow to our will would be deported to America!



Then again, according to Klein half the Canadian population dies every year so at some point no one is left so we move in for free!

NOW THAT'S FREEDOM BY GAWD!