Canada back to a Balanced Budget.

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PokerGuy

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I don't think anyone outside of the US thinks the US keeps the global peace

Really? You don't think the Germans, French, Dutch etc were keenly aware that for decades the only thing keeping red army tanks from rolling through their countries was the US forces?

The US goes on stupid excursions periodically, but overall is a stabilizing influence because everyone knows that if the US gets involved - for good or for bad -- the military part of the conflict will be over.
 

Orignal Earl

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Really? You don't think the Germans, French, Dutch etc were keenly aware that for decades the only thing keeping red army tanks from rolling through their countries was the US forces?

The US goes on stupid excursions periodically, but overall is a stabilizing influence because everyone knows that if the US gets involved - for good or for bad -- the military part of the conflict will be over.

That's some crazy Team America stuff you got going on there.
I suppose in the same breath you tell about how useless the UN and NATO are
I have no doubt that if you guys did not have the huge mil you have, a lot of you would just dry up and blow away from fear
 
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Northern Lawn

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Really? You don't think the Germans, French, Dutch etc were keenly aware that for decades the only thing keeping red army tanks from rolling through their countries was the US forces?

The US goes on stupid excursions periodically, but overall is a stabilizing influence because everyone knows that if the US gets involved - for good or for bad -- the military part of the conflict will be over.

I agree with that even if I do rant against America from time to time. But I rant against everything from time to time. I don't want the USA dollar to collapse and I really wish they would get their act together and get money out of their politics because if they cause a real world wide depression because of greed and corruption the blinders are going to come off big time and I fear that unknown.
 

Zxian

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It's really amusing imagining the veins bulge out of his head when anything government regulated is mentioned.
 

StinkyPinky

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Really? You don't think the Germans, French, Dutch etc were keenly aware that for decades the only thing keeping red army tanks from rolling through their countries was the US forces?

The US goes on stupid excursions periodically, but overall is a stabilizing influence because everyone knows that if the US gets involved - for good or for bad -- the military part of the conflict will be over.

France and the UK are nuclear powers so I imagine the USSR would have been reluctant to try anything regardless.

Anyway, none of this is relevant in the modern era. Europe would wipe the floor with Russia these days.
 

HTFOff

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Anyway, none of this is relevant in the modern era. Europe would wipe the floor with Russia these days.

Not before a few historical neighborhoods were turned in to glass.

In a conflict between france, uk, germany vs. russia - i'm not so sure it would be a pushover for the europeans.

I enjoy these armchair type debates.
 

yllus

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This is actually us getting back to a balanced budget rather late - we've done a lot of dumb spending in the last ten years.
 

Jaskalas

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To understand the balanced budget, I'd love to see a breakdown of Canadian incomes / working class in comparison to the US. I just have this picture of them providing for fewer poor / unemployed.
 

AViking

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How do I truly interpret that? A few things stick out immediately. Venezuela for example. Is that map saying that India and well, pretty much the whole first world, have better income equality than the US? The US is roughly the same as Peru, Mozambique, China, Ecuador...? What am I missing?! Is it because countries like the US and China have so many Billionaires?
 

Spungo

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To understand the balanced budget, I'd love to see a breakdown of Canadian incomes / working class in comparison to the US. I just have this picture of them providing for fewer poor / unemployed.
I hear they still have a working class up there. It's so weird. They "work" for a living. I don't think they have anything comparable to food stamps or section 8.
 

iGas

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How do I truly interpret that? A few things stick out immediately. Venezuela for example. Is that map saying that India and well, pretty much the whole first world, have better income equality than the US? The US is roughly the same as Peru, Mozambique, China, Ecuador...? What am I missing?! Is it because countries like the US and China have so many Billionaires?
You are correct that most of the developed countries have better income equality than the US, while the US income equality is roughly the same as developing and third world countries such as China, Mexico, Mozambique, Guyana, Ecuador, etc...

Median salary for the US is around $54.5K, and median salary for Canada is around $42.5K. However, the US top 1% salary is close to $400K, while the Canadian counter part is around $160K.
 
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CanOWorms

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Sounds like Canada then needs to refund those countries whose resources were extracted during colonialism back since Canada, as a settler colony, was the recipient of a huge amount of pillaged resources as a willing member of the British Empire. Those pillaged resources developed Canada.

This is a test to see if Canada has any sense of human decency. Refund any surplus, or increase a refund to go back to a deficit. Canada was developed through the raping of the world.
 

Tango

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Healthcare isn't a right [...]

Actually it is.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Article 25.

(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
 

Northern Lawn

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Canada was developed through the raping of the world.

We also raped your great great great grandmother during the war of 1812 when when we ran amok in Washington DC. A lot of raping and pillaging went on there, I mean there is a reason why we're cousins.
 

KMFJD

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We also raped your great great great grandmother during the war of 1812 when when we ran amok in Washington DC. A lot of raping and pillaging went on there, I mean there is a reason why we're cousins.

By "we" you mean British troops returning from the peninsular war in Spain? Right?
 

Engineer

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Actually it is.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Article 25.

(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

Just awesome (the rights and the ownage)! :thumbsup:
 
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That's impressive. Although Canada's military is an absolute farce, I think that if the US had a similarly laughable one it would still end up going balls deep into deficit in no time at all.

Guess you dont really need one when nobody hates you. Maybe the US could learn to butt out of world police job to save some money.
 
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