Comments on: Canada, U.S. border gates separate, unite towns http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2009/10/04/canada-u-s-border-gates-separate-unite-towns/ Jack's Newswatch - You can fool some of the bears all of the time, and all of the bears some of the time, but you can not fool all of the bears all of the time — Jack's Newswatch Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:13:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mac http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2009/10/04/canada-u-s-border-gates-separate-unite-towns/#comment-5552 Mac Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:23:47 +0000 http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/?p=5919#comment-5552 The border has been in place for a long time. Unless the house was built over 100 years ago, the concept of having a border running through is pretty ridiculous. Free trade works because it's mutually beneficial but, like any great idea, it can be overdone. The EU started off as an adventure in free trade. Now the EU is interfering in all aspects of life and shows no signs of letting up. Will Europe become one massive nation? Hard to say... The border has been in place for a long time. Unless the house was built over 100 years ago, the concept of having a border running through is pretty ridiculous.

Free trade works because it’s mutually beneficial but, like any great idea, it can be overdone.

The EU started off as an adventure in free trade. Now the EU is interfering in all aspects of life and shows no signs of letting up. Will Europe become one massive nation? Hard to say…

]]> By: nomdeblog http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2009/10/04/canada-u-s-border-gates-separate-unite-towns/#comment-5551 nomdeblog Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:32:16 +0000 http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/?p=5919#comment-5551 I know that area, it has beautiful lakes and hills. But the border issue has been the source of jokes for decades and it got revved up after 9/11. Sometimes the border goes through the middle of a bedroom in a house.   But we are 2 sovereign nations, are we not? If we are, then we have borders. Canada and the US work because we are not the EU, which has 27 countries and 500 million people now and if it adds Turkey it will open the back door for the Middle East to pour in. I just don’t understand the lack of borders in Europe. I prefer our system with the US even as we tighten up. The trick is to have free trade, that doesn’t mean we give up our border or our sovereignty the way Europe has. They are way over centralized by unelected bureaucrats, too big to succeed.   The world should quit playing with silly post national ideas that sound good in a song “imagine there’s no countries” ( did John Lennon write that for Obama?) but make no sense in the real world where you’d be “blowing in the wind”.   Good fences make for good neighbours.   I know that area, it has beautiful lakes and hills. But the border issue has been the source of jokes for decades and it got revved up after 9/11. Sometimes the border goes through the middle of a bedroom in a house.
 
But we are 2 sovereign nations, are we not? If we are, then we have borders. Canada and the US work because we are not the EU, which has 27 countries and 500 million people now and if it adds Turkey it will open the back door for the Middle East to pour in. I just don’t understand the lack of borders in Europe. I prefer our system with the US even as we tighten up. The trick is to have free trade, that doesn’t mean we give up our border or our sovereignty the way Europe has. They are way over centralized by unelected bureaucrats, too big to succeed.
 
The world should quit playing with silly post national ideas that sound good in a song “imagine there’s no countries” ( did John Lennon write that for Obama?) but make no sense in the real world where you’d be “blowing in the wind”.
 

Good fences make for good neighbours.

 

]]> By: philanthropist http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2009/10/04/canada-u-s-border-gates-separate-unite-towns/#comment-5550 philanthropist Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:15:35 +0000 http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/?p=5919#comment-5550 So much for this new Administration's "international spirit of cooperation" and all those other fine words, they mean nothing.  So much for this new Administration’s “international spirit of cooperation” and all those other fine words, they mean nothing. 

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