[tpmintx]

This has boiled down to a choice of whether or not the Flemish wish the continue to support a large population of French-speaking people who really would prefer not to work real hard.

I suspect it won’t be long before some of us in Texas start to feel the same way about people on the East and West Coasts of the US who don’t want to work real hard either...

[americanophile]

What it really goes to show is that mulitculturalism is generally a failure. A nation of different langages and values can exist for a while, and the groups can tolerate eachother, but it does not make for a cohesive society. I suspect that in the end this will happen to Canada as well.

[Carry_Okie]

I suspect it won’t be long before some of us in Texas start to feel the same way about people on the East and West Coasts of the US who don’t want to work real hard either...

The people who work in Silicon Valley start-ups make Texans look like laggards. 80-hour work weeks here have been common for decades.

[Clemenza]

Actually, we people in the NYC area work our a-ses off paying federal income taxes to subsidize all of those lovely government facilities throughout the south. Compare the per capita incomes and levels of people in poverty in New York versus Texas and Mississippi and then get back to me.

As far as the local leeches who are dependent on the state for employment and their gold plated pensions, we pay for them out of our state and municipal taxes, but THAT is OUR self-inflicted problem.

[April Lexington]

I suspect it won’t be long before some of us in Texas start to feel the same way about people on the East and West Coasts of the US who don’t want to work real hard either...

You are NOT alone...