Mexico, not Canada

The Nazi Cheese-head union-busting freshman governor in Wisconsin got me to thinking about who we want to be as a country. It seems that we are always asking ourselves this question. It's obvious from the 2 wars we fought against it (Korea and Vietnam) we don't want to be communists.

So, who are we?

While the debate dragged on and on over Obama Care; as the Obama administration gave in and gave in to the hard right conservatives just to get something passed, I kept hearing that his bill was 'socialist' or 'communist'. That making sure every American had health care was foreign and bad thing to do.

We shouldn't want to be like Canada or England or Germany or France or, god forbid, like China.

Who should we wanna be like?

How about Mexico?

I wanna get back to Mexico, but first I wanna talk about a tiny blip of news I'd heard sometime last year.

Something that had nothing to do with America.

This little blip of news; this little factoid, was that China has passed Germany as the world's largest exporter of manufactured goods.

Let that sink in for a minute.

China has a population of 1.3 billion. Germany, less than 82 million. China's population is 16 times larger than Germany's, yet it was only last year that they exported more than Germany.

As an aside, Germany guarantees health care to all of it's citizens, and their economy is very strong. The same with China. In fact, China owns a huge portion of our American debt.

What this says to a trucker in the mid-west is that the United States might be looking in the wrong direction. It looks to me like we are looking towards being like Mexico, and not Canada.

But ya know, a funny thing about that . . . I don't wanna insult Mexico, but, when that thought first occurred to me, it was the worst thing I could imagine. And yet, this year; 2011, Mexico will be providing Universal Health Care to all of it's citizens.

What does that say about us if we don't wanna provide universal health care, or allow unions the right to collective bargaining?

Who do we wanna be?