Could Canada and the U.S. go isolationists and just say bye bye to the rest of the world

prolly not...


but i dont the the US ever really even considers Canada....we cant say buh bye to Canada becuase we never rezally said Hello.

what are you talking about, most of our oil comes from canada

we did more trading with canada than with china

YES,, I'm in. lets do this.... LOL

Yes we are the brains, you guys be the muscle.

We're like your gay pot smoking cousin.

Never happen, our elected "personnel" will always be out dabbling where they don't belong.

Need a good border with Mexico for it to work.

US is on global welfare, so i doubt it. We don't really make anything here anymore, so we can't really isolate ourselves.

About the only thing we make here is toxic GM crops, and pharmaceuticals that kill you.

well we could just build a higher wall,, like the one we should build around quebec first...Just don't want to hear them cry.

Absolutely! Let's declare ourselves completely neutral in all conflicts and adopt Switzerland's foreign policy.

Then we just have to declare all our crazy mutual defense treaties null and void and bring all our troops home to be put into new bases all along our southern border so they can get there faster if necessary.

We need a really strong, kick-ass military as a defense against the nutters who might want to attack. However, the time for us to have troops all over the world is over. Keep a few naval bases and in various places, maybe keep the big base in Germany, but bring the rest home.

We can be strong but neutral. By all means, we can be generous with humanitarian aid and assistance but we really do need to learn the lessons of the last hundred years and stay out of foreign wars unless we are directly attacked.

Sounds good, but where will our govt elite get all their money and power?

Not sure if Canada would want to team up with US. They consider us Upper Mexicans.

However, do agree with screw the rest of the retards in the world part.

It's well past time that the US pulls everything back and tells the world "No more foreign aid from us. No more money just so you'll be our friend."

It would crash China, sorry to say but it needs to be done for as bad as being strictly consumers is for us, being strictly producers is wreaking havoc on them as well.

It would limit over population on a global scale, as many of these countries rely on North America to feed them in their barren lands. It would restore our ecosystem at the same time.

We need to stop looking for and creating gimmicks to entertain ourselves and get back to the basics: Food, shelter, and clothing. We can still have modern amenities on a sustainable level, but the failed world financial structure needs to be addressed and let crash. Items should be valued at a fair fixed rate between individuals, and a non variable currency should be institutionalized across the boards.

isolationism gets a bad rap, but globalization doesnt seem to be working to anyone's advantages except the fat cats. Defund the UN, out of afghanistan, iraq, japan, korea, germany, italy, use the money saved on these wars and forward deployed troops to invest in a real star wars missile defense. If we didnt have interests spread all across the globe, it wouldnt be so easy for assholes to threaten us. If they did threaten us it would be on our own soil which we would not stand for and summarily we would crush anyone stupid enough to try.

Yes let this shit crash. With the diversity of resources and ability of our two nations i see no reason we couldnt be sustainable. someone said we need a bigger fence for our mexican border but i have a better idea. World's largest minefield.

where the hell are all the cheap manufactured goods going to come from????? manufacturing and cheap cannot be used in the same sentence as far as US and Canada go. we could go isolationist with the exception of china!! it would work.

Well, I guess this would be okay if we keep sending money to Israel.

Wait, this is starting to look like the NAU.

higher prices is a small concession to make to break our dependence on the chinese dictators. Also higher prices would make our hyperconsumerism control itself.

op, not just higher prices, astronomically higher prices!!!

a lot of basic things would not even be available.

Canada maybe, no way the US could.

As Van Morrison says, it's too late to stop now.

That's why I said a fixed rate valuing system. The only reason that goods aren't "cheap" now is because the terms "expensive" and "cheap" are manufactured. As long as the values are allowed to fluctuate, this will always be a problem.

Average labor in time at set rate + value of raw materials + average overhead + 5% = Fixed product value. No more unions growing these overinflated markets where cost of living is 10x what it is in normal parts of the country.

what would be astronomically higher? what wouldnt be available. The marketplace would respond and stabilize the situation. prices would go up but we would have tru indepence from thugs and dictators after obama leaves of course. ill pay 10 bucks for a clock radio instead of 5 if my brother doesnt have to go clean up the world with an m-16 every 5 years

You have to free your mind from the financial "monetary" racket that we perceive price/value with right now. Money inflates and deflates in value. Products hold steady value. If something goes up in price, it's because the currency has devalued, not the other way around.

Forgot to add, there is some fluctuation in price due to supply/demand, but that problem is easy for the markets to self correct/regulate. The only place it can't is in food where we have massive failed crops.

Yes we could but according to the Illuminati in Washington and NYC that would be racist.

ILLUMINATI-1776

no sorry USA & Canada, no doubt that you can survive on your own but other people will always try to interfere on your continent anyway. that's how it works.

please do.