Help Canada!

[AlphaWolf]

Akira888,

The link you have has the Canadian debt listed in Canadian Dollars. At current exchange rate it would be around 600 billion. 3 other tickers I checked put the US debt much closer to 7 trillion than the link you provided. Including the one I listed earlier in this thread. /shrug

All the values I listed in my earlier post were $US.

As for the rest of your post I am not going to get into arguing the advantage/disadvantage of monopoly vs oligopily vs free market (not that I believe such a thing truly exists). Suffice it to say I don't agree with your assessment.

 

[pax]

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/12/17/health_spending031217

Bit of a band new update on canadian spending on HC. So its about 10% of gdp vs 13.9% in the US. Cnosiderign we're virually part of the same north american market Id say we are both very efficient and grsolly underfunding our HC.

 

[Sxotty]

Yes the US has a ridiculous debt. There is no way we will ever pay it off, and we are giving other coutries leverage over us by borrowing from them. It is collosaly stupid, but not so terrible. I will just move to another country when I get older so that I don't have to spend my life, and my childrens, and their childrens lives paying it off.

 

[akira888]

Yes the US has a ridiculous debt. There is no way we will ever pay it off, and we are giving other coutries leverage over us by borrowing from them. It is collosaly stupid, but not so terrible. I will just move to another country when I get older so that I don't have to spend my life, and my childrens, and their childrens lives paying it off.

Almost every developed nation actually has an equal to worse debt problem than the United States. Except Switzerland IIRC.

By the way, what does "TAMU" in your location dialog stand for? Please don't tell me it stands for what I think it does...