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Originally Posted by TheSollyLama
--No, I'm dead serious. You have a brilliant idea here. Of course it'll never fly in DC....think the world hates us now, imagine if we stopped being the world's equivelant of asking dad for gas money.......
As for Canada- all of NORAD is a 'joint' US-Canadian venture. Read that to say the US paid for it all and Canada sent a few officers to hang out in the Mountain. Canada knows any attack across the Bering Strait would be dealt with by US forces. Hell since we get most of our oil from Canada- it's way more important to protect than any sandbox in the middle east.
Knowing that the US took responsibility for North America's defense has allowed Canada to spend far less on defense all this time. So- they get our money for oil, and they get free military defense.
There should be a price tag attached to that. Canada has often criticized the US for not having universal healthcare. But imagine how much extra change we'd have if the entire western hemisphere wasn't banking on the US to defend it.........the US doesn't just pay for our defense- but pretty much everyone on this side of the planet. Had these nations been more self-reliant, they wouldn't have the money either for pleasantries like universal healthcare.
I am all for presenting bills for services rendered.
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Well then, we're on the same track. 
PhilB
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