Dana
> You know what kills me? A developer here in Canada with - "3 years
> experience in Coldfusion, Java, _javascript_, SQL Server, excellent
> communication skills and a bachelors degree. Pluses include Lotus
> Notes and J2EE." will make about $15 an hour or maybe $35,000/yr -
> Canadian. That's like $25,000 USD or so. Of course our taxes our
> higher and our cost of living is higher, plus we also have the benefit
> of 6 to 8 months of frozen hell. Don't get me started on our supposed
> universal health care. I would have gladly paid $5,000 for my Dad to
> have had an MRI on his heart right away instead of waiting a year just
> to watch him lose 130 pounds and die because they thought it was a
> problem with his liver. But they didn't want to book the tests,
> because they were under pressure from the gov't to not spend money on
> tests uneccessarily. Nevermind that he had full medical coverage from
> his gov't job. And because of our non-litigious nature up here, the
> doctor walks away with an 'Ooops' attitude. Did I mention they were
> under pressure because the federal funds for provincial health care
> went to road building because it was an election year?
>
> Bloody hell, I'm getting my degree and getting the heck out of this
> country. All this socialism is going to be the death of us. The US may
> have a frickin' war mongerer in office, but at least when your troops
> get sent somewhere they don't go in planes that their grandfather's
> flew. Argh --calming down now, going to my happy
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