I just read an article in which the reporter discussed and interviewed various people who were fed up with the United States and were planning to move to Canada. At first, I thought, "maybe they have some legitimate grievances." Then I read deeper and realized they're just idiots. One said, "In the United States you ahve to live in a certain area to go to a good school." That's true, and there are a lot of reasons why. It's a hard issue to discuss without being racist. I'll start by saying that when I was in middle school I had a lot of black friends right off the bat in 6th grade. As we traveled through thsoe 3 years at Sandy Springs Middle School, I began to notice that despite friendships, when it came to choosing classes, and place to sit during assemblies, things became very segregated. That's no one's fault, people just want to hang with people like they are. The problem is that, however much flak I might get for saying this, areas with high populations of black people tend to have worse schools. This is not because they are not funded as much, because I'm pretty damn sure the schools in south Fulton get just as much government funding per student as schools in north Fulton, but because the culture seems to encourage children to make fun of their peers that actually try to learn, unlike where I went to school and people thought my academic acheivements were nifty. Nerdy, but nifty. Without enogh community support, no school can possibly do well. It's a culture problem. The real problem with fixing this is that people are more interested in blaming those at good schools instead of trying to fix the root of the problem.

There are problems in the United States. People that run from problems instead of trying to solve problems are cowards, pure and simple. One thing I can tell you, however. If everyone with a grievence like this moves to Canada, Canada will fall apart due to the sudden influence of selfish, illogical cowards who do not understand what freedom really means, and the rest of us left in the United States will be very happy because we'll no longer have to pick up the slack in taxes and general productivity that these cowards cause.

One more thing. Forcing people who make lots of money to give their money to poor people in the form of tax refunds and credits is not freedom. It's the very opposite, and please mention that to anyone who says they want to move to Canada to be free.