Thom Tillis also suggested that Canadians should not criticize the lack of a universal public healthcare system in the U.S.
    • Otter ( otter@lemmy.ca ) English
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      11 months ago

      Not only that, the numbers don’t make sense

      The $2 trillion figure is likely derived from a report published in March by the American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think tank based in Washington D.C.

      The report’s authors came up with the figure based on military expenditures of NATO members between 2000 — six years before the 2 per cent target was actually formalized — and 2024. The report did not provide a dollar value for Canada’s alleged shortfall specifically.

  • StoneyPicton ( StoneyPicton@lemmy.ca ) deleted by creatorEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Isn’t the 2 trillion dollars the same amount the Department of War couldn’t account for in it’s multiple failed audits, what some conspirists say is the reason for 9/11. If you look at the amount they spend per year being 3 times what China spends, then why is China seemingly increasing it’s military capability at a much faster pace than the U.S.? The companies that benefit from U.S. spending are more being subsidized than producing (looking at you Boeing). As a side note, I can’t believe that Boeing has a contract to do work in Canada (can’t remember what and too lazy to look it up).

  • kbal ( kbal@fedia.io ) 
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    11 months ago

    If Canada owes some kind of payment to the gods of war for not spending enough on killing people over the years, I propose that we should pay it in the form of a huge pile of $100 banknotes which is then ritually devoted to Huitzilopochtli by the governor general and then burned.