Woah captain! In communism, you earned zero dollar and nothing belongs to you. That you work harder or not, you won't get ahead of anybody. Here, you earn a minimum amount and if you work, you will earn far more which means you can buy more stuff (And can get ahead of those losers who stays on the minimum given! ;-). In fact, it may well cost far less money for the government to give everybody 20K than administering all the special social programs and try to watch people abusing it left and right. Nothing like someone who has nothing to do all day long to find loopholes in all the laws and assist programs available to the 'poor'. So you my working friend can still earn your nice salary and pay yourself a bmw to look better than most other, while those who can't or won't find a job can stay on the minimum income and not die of hunger in the mean time or do a really degrading job. Maybe a lot of employer will have to upgrade the pay of jobs nobody want to do if they want to have anyone doing them? And you think that is a bad thing (McDonald and Walmart will probably be very unhappy if this happen)? It is sad how much greed there is in the USA and many other country in the world. Everything must belong to a few and the other should just die. That seems the kind of thinking you believe in. It's like you think sharing is all bad. The way communism did it was not great for the luxuries but even then, you did not hear their side of the story. There was no more abjectly poor people left in the USSR after the first few bad years when they made the transition. There are plenty of hungry peeps in the USA today. Capitalism is not all that great without some socialism added to it and a lot of checks and balance from the government.

Canada has less natural resources than the US? Are you crazy? Our whole economy run on natural resources almost exclusively. We got so much of it that is why the US is our biggest trading partner. They come buy our natural resources cheap. Must be why they didn't invade us YET. We do have a much smaller population, something like 10 times less. We are around 30 millions for a country that is actually bigger than the US. Of course almost a third of the country is in the very cold region so not many peeps want to go live there, but still we got plenty of space left.

Mmm failing? If you look more closely at their loss, there is like 2+ billion lost by closing shop in the UK witch mean it is a one-time loss for this year. Next year, they are going to make something like 1.5+billion in profit! Not such a failure if you ask me. Now i agree with you their service has gone from great at the start from terribad nowadays. Especially their geeksquad which is the worse crappy service i ever seen (yes even worse that Bell(or AT&T) support). And it seems one best buy store cannot communicate with central or other best buy stores effectively. Bad communication is great sign that this company is going nowhere fast. Shorting the stock might not be a bad idea.