TALKING POINT: WHAT TO SAY WHEN PEOPLE ASK WHAT CALIFORNIA WOULD BE LIKE IF IT SEPARATES FROM THE USA: IF THEY SAY IT WILL EITHER COLLAPSE OR BECOME A SOCIALIST DICTATORSHIP, OFFER CANADA AS A MODEL OF A BETTER SOCIETY

I found this through my good friend, Professor Walter Williams. It’s just another one of those things that is said/written SO well that I couldn’t have said it better, myself, if I’d had a million years to write and give a dissertation on it:

Question at quora.com Would Canada have been better off if it had been a part of the United States?

Response from Canadian Bernhard Knebel Updated November 15, 2019

O You are kidding me, right? We are the 6th richest nation on earth consistently rated as one of the top 4 nations on earth to live; often number one or 2. 6th by median wealth per capita. 7th by average wealth per capita. And 8th by overall aggregate wealth at about 6.4 trillion. The US never makes it past 15th place.

We live longer than Americans, have less violence, lower maternal and infant mortality, less people in jail per capita than the US and a lower crime rate overall.

We have a larger middle class and less disparity between rich and poor. Our inner cities are livable and you can walk, safely, in almost any of them at midnight. We have less mental illness and better supports for those that are ill. We have less homelessness per capita than…