Rob Rogers for November 01, 2015

I absolutely don’t mind your country spending all its money on its military. After all, this military can’t even beat the Taliban. The more you spend on it the faster you drive yourself to bankruptcy and the better off the world is.

Why do WE (USA) have to spend so much money to defend ourselves, and Canada doesn’t?

Got to keep those votes coming from the defense industry not to forget keeping the profit margins up for the executives. It is much better to try to cut Social Security and Medicare so more money can be sucked out of the middle class.

From a management point of view, the military at its current size cannot be agile which makes it ineffective in many cases.

The JLENS program seems like a perfect example of wasteful spending.

Yet Congress determines that we continue spending on it, even as they decry spending as wasteful.

Why are there no posters here who are outraged about it?(I am outraged about it.)

Meanwhile Welfare spending increases over 30% under Obama, but that’s ok, they vote Democrat.

That’s just what I mean!(I thought you were Austrian!? What Province do you live in?)

Spend our tax dollars on educational and infra-construction and not on weapons of destruction.

Here’s the article; it’s pretty interesting:America may call itself the “Land of the Free,” but it’s hardly the freest nation in the world, according to a new report from the Legatum Institute, a London-based think tank.

The group’s annual prosperity index, which ranks the prosperity of 142 countries, has ranked Canada the best country in the world for “personal freedom.”

According to the study, Canada is the most tolerant of people from other countries, with 92 percent of Canadians thinking the country is a good place for immigrants. In addition, about 94 percent of Canadians believe that they have the freedom to choose the course of their own lives, the study says.

Did we mention they might legalize pot soon?

America, on the other hand, ranks 15th for freedom, just behind Costa Rica and the Netherlands.

The best countries for personal freedom are:

1. Canada

2. New Zealand

3. Norway

4. Luxembourg

5. Iceland

6. Ireland

7. Sweden

8. Denmark

9. Australia

10. Uruguay

Coming out on top — ranking high in all categories — was Norway, which was named the most prosperous country in the world for the seventh year in a row.

And notice all those nasty socialist countries on the list.