yah, massive deficit spending is the traditional way to get the economy revving. spend now, pay later. the hundreds of billions in deficit spending this Last year quite dwarf the few billion in tax cuts.
as to canadians going down to the states for medical care, I can't say i've ever known anyone to do that either. I'm sure it happens, especially for rare procedures, but it doesn't seem to be statistically significant.
as to our doctors and nurses being inferior to american health care workers, that's just silly. If it were true, they wouldn't be in such demand down in the states.
statistics fairly consistently show Canadians as being healthier and having somewhat higher life expectancies than Americans.
[ July 27, 2004, 17:58: Message edited by: archaeolept ]