You know what kills me? A developer here in Canada with - "3 years experience in Coldfusion, Java, _javascript_, SQL Server, excellent communication skills and a bachelors degree. Pluses include Lotus Notes and J2EE." will make about $15 an hour or maybe $35,000/yr - Canadian. That's like $25,000 USD or so. Of course our taxes our higher and our cost of living is higher, plus we also have the benefit of 6 to 8 months of frozen hell. Don't get me started on our supposed universal health care. I would have gladly paid $5,000 for my Dad to have had an MRI on his heart right away instead of waiting a year just to watch him lose 130 pounds and die because they thought it was a problem with his liver. But they didn't want to book the tests, because they were under pressure from the gov't to not spend money on tests uneccessarily. Nevermind that he had full medical coverage from his gov't job. And because of our non-litigious nature up here, the doctor walks away with an 'Ooops' attitude. Did I mention they were under pressure because the federal funds for provincial health care went to road building because it was an election year?
Bloody hell, I'm getting my degree and getting the heck out of this country. All this socialism is going to be the death of us. The US may have a frickin' war mongerer in office, but at least when your troops get sent somewhere they don't go in planes that their grandfather's flew. Argh --calming down now, going to my happy place---
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