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Old 12-14-2012, 12:09 PM   #133
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Originally Posted by valo403 View Post
Is Canada all that different?
yeah, we are collectively more aware of eachothers' well being. While Canadians can be extremely mean the arrogance and consumerism in the U.S. is more rampant, they have more people on pharmaceuticals and their food is more processed. You will see acts of kindness way more often in Canada than in the U.S. Our social policies and higher tax rates create a society where we are forced to help the less fortunate as where in the U.S. it's dog eat dog.

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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist View Post
That is ridiculous. Those same factors exist elsewhere and have far less gun violence.
the U.S. has 6 of the top 12 pharmaceutical companies in the world and are more drugged up than anywhere else

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ical_companies

to say that the situation is the same everywhere else in the world is naive
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