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"in a sense our military spending subsidizes Canadian healthcare"

In the nonsense sense, yes. Your military spending subsidizes American defence contractors, who subsidize American politicians.

"Free" healthcare beats no healthcare. In 2007, 33 million Canadians had "free" healthcare. In 2007, 45.7 million Americans had no healthcare. It's nice to see Obamacare getting people coverage.

Rather than try to spin the story to make America look good, it would be more constructive to consider why America is declining and what it can do to reverse that trend.

In the software world, we're better at fixing bugs when we stop calling them undocumented features. That philosophy can work in the real world too.



As the article states, America is not declining in absolute terms, the world is catching up, which is a good thing.




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