... man, they can still take your breath away. As reported in today's National Post (their motto: "Canada's version of the Wall Street Journal, but with less talent."), we have the Texas company Weldtron that, in a fit of childish, knee-jerk, flag-waving patriotism, has decided to stop selling its product to Canadians.
No problem. Let's just remember this the next time, say, some of your overseas embassy personnel need rescuing by Canadians. Or when you need flu vaccine on short notice. Or perhaps when there's another massive terrorist attack and y'all need somewhere to land all your airplanes in a hurry.
BONUS TRACK: In what can't be much of a surprise, you can find a copy of Weldtron's CEO's childish whining over at (where else?) FreeRepublic. Here's the best part of his sanctimonious hypocrisy:
We are a small Corporation that invents, manufactures, and sells unique electronic controls to the welding industry. Our market is narrow since our products apply to specifically American made welding machinery and few applications exist external to the US...
... Some may think this as a stupid idea since I will lose some sales. Like I said, they don’t amount to much anyway ...
In other words, his vaunted stand on principle doesn't actually extend to sacrificing any financial security. Now that's principle.
2 comments:
This is hilarious!
Taking symbolic stands that don't actually put anything on the line is a grand American tradition. Another is constant vocabulary changes that don't actually address the underlying problem.
One more thing, if you really want to annoy people from the southern US, refer to them as Yanks - they'll HATE that.
Meanwhile, back in New Mexico...
http://www.t-shirtking.com/gocanadian.html
Must be hard being an american.
MK
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