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12-31-2013, 06:05 PM
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The difference is in Canada you get Healthcare for your tax dollars.
Here you get a share of an $800,000 Cruise missile.
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Which also provides an umbrella of protection for Canada....
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12-31-2013, 07:56 PM
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Which also provides an umbrella of protection for Canada....
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They don't even provide an umbrella for us. They're tactical weapons with a range of several hundred miles.
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12-31-2013, 08:34 PM
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Crockola. There are a fair amount of Canadian - owned manufacturing entities - and other sectors represented as well - in the US.
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Seems like you need to read some history. Btw, it wasn't a republican president who brought Canada to its knees.
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12-31-2013, 08:37 PM
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They don't even provide an umbrella for us. They're tactical weapons with a range of several hundred miles.
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Yup. They are needed to fight a couple of hundred jihadists arned with AK-47's and home made bombs in Afghanistan.
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12-31-2013, 08:44 PM
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They don't even provide an umbrella for us. They're tactical weapons with a range of several hundred miles.
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I was speaking metaphorically. US taxes are spent, amongst other things, on military assets and personnel that are used to help bolster defenses for other countries around the world. If Canadians would like to start, for example, increasing their share of funding for NORAD, it would be a start. Until then, let's not forget that tax dollars in Canada can be spent on healthcare in part because the US is picking up the tab for part of that counrty's defense budget.
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12-31-2013, 08:46 PM
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Seems like you need to read some history. Btw, it wasn't a republican president who brought Canada to its knees.
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My hIstory is just fine, thanks. Canada has done a fine job of throttling it's own economy.
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12-31-2013, 09:04 PM
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Have they had the same problems we've had since 2006?
No.
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12-31-2013, 09:20 PM
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I was speaking metaphorically. US taxes are spent, amongst other things, on military assets and personnel that are used to help bolster defenses for other countries around the world. If Canadians would like to start, for example, increasing their share of funding for NORAD, it would be a start. Until then, let's not forget that tax dollars in Canada can be spent on healthcare in part because the US is picking up the tab for part of that counrty's defense budget.
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I'd argue we spend what we do on defense because our political system is bought and paid for by Ike's MIC. "Protecting the free world" is just the rationalization for doing so. I speak from experience on this having worked for DoD for twenty years, much of it in overseeing large contracts.
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12-31-2013, 09:24 PM
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I'd argue we spend what we do on defense because our political system is bought and paid for by Ike's MIC. "Protecting the free world" is just the rationalization for doing so. I speak from experience on this having worked for DoD for twenty years, much of it in overseeing large contracts.
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Speaking of defense, Tech could have used some today.
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12-31-2013, 09:39 PM
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Speaking of defense, Tech could have used some today.
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No shit. They've looked pretty awful for the past couple of years. The Duke vs. Texas A&M is quite entertaining though.
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