Renegade 13: "Might as well stop....but don't view it as me conceeding your arguement, since I'm not"
Actually Renegade
did concede, partially, when he wrote
"Here I agree with you. I was mistaken in my original post that the American economy was circling the drain, at least in certain aspects."
We actually agree on other points, too, e.g. deficit spending is bad, Canada has a strong economy, and Canada and the US are far better off as partners than antagonists. He seems a bit overly optimistic about the effects of a hypothetical US-Canada trade war, but I certainly can't fault his patriotism.