France has so much invested into dictatorships, it is embarrassing, Germans too.
Yup...second only to the US. They have started investigating some of it though. Cheney could end up facing charges because of that.
Typical liberal blather
It's not narrow minded when you learned through loosing all your family to socialism and communism.
Don't even try to make that comparison, gftr. No person with a working brain actually believes that line.
Fair enough, you don't know. All 80 members of my Russian heritage, many of the adults were teachers and bankers, were murdered by Stalin, I have never found a single grave. Totally wiped out every member, children, parents, grandparents.
And the restrictions on Canadian investing or Canadians living in the States are just small examples of the evil thumb of control exercized by governments with you having no choice whatsoever (within Canada).
What restrictions are there on you? You were allowed to move there. You can even give up your citizenship and become an American. No restrictions.
You as a Canadian are restricted regarding your RRSP account as to what investments you are allowed to buy, and the tax system incentivizes buying Canadian Stock. When you get older and should you want to spend winters in Florida or Arizona you can only leave for a certain amount of time in order to be elegible for health care and social security. Even Euro socialist trash aren't that restrictive.
Other countries stroke their own ego by mentioning percentages that their taxes go to foreign aid. This stat of course is so woefully incomplete.
GDP (GNI) is the measure that's used. It is the only realistic way of measuring against differences in economic systems, size, wealth, and ever-changing economies.
It's the only realistic way to continue the myths you are blathering and guaranteeing that you can continue to bash Americans.
It never tallies the private contributions made by American private citizens that dwarf the entire expenditures of some of these other countries.
Nor should it. Every country has citizens who make private donations. The problem with many of the private donations coming from the US is that they are very much tied up in religious organizations, who tend to attach a lot of faith-based strings to everything they do, and NGOs that spend most of the money before it ever leaves this continent.
We should rename you the cynic. You are so blinded by anger you can't see the light. Thousands of American Doctors give time, lots of it, something that Canadian Docs have trouble doing because they are slaves to the public system. You rationalize everything. Everywhere I go in the world I see evidence of American Aid, not French, not German, not even Canadian aid. American Aid. That's what everyone measures, that's what makes the difference. It's american food in trucks, American water treatment plants, american generators. American engineers, equipment, drugs, specialists, they are all American.
It just looks alot better for other countries when they just compare govt expenditures.
So meet your responsibilities and make yourselves look good instead issuing excuses.
One final and last thought that never rounds out the picture, is the enlargement of the pie brought on by free trade agreements.
Trade agreements with the US tend to be one-sided and predatory. To make things worse, the US often breaks trade agreements then refuses to abide by the rulings of the governing trade bodies.
