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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 695874" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>Klein,</p><p></p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906024846/http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/05/defense-spending-as-a-global-public-good.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">When your country no longer suckles the US teat</span></a>, I'll then take your bogus claims on a more serious nature!</p><p></p><p>Where Matthew does error in his conclusion on Canada's defense spending savings it that the US military global footprint maintains not only the openness of transportation routes and sea lanes at least in a sense that lone countries are afraid to exploit these areas for their own revenue purposes but that also the US military maintains a hegemic structure for western economic practices and chiefly for dominance of our currencies over and above potential non-western rivals. Petro dollars anyone!</p><p></p><p>If Canada (or other nations for that matter) had to all of a sudden pay it's "fairshare" of enjoying this free ride, I wonder then what the effects would be to your nation's national interests then? I for one want to withdraw all global US military forces from around the globe and then force all you free loaders and the free loading corp. interests to then have to foot the full bill of global trade to where the producer and consumer face the full price of this transaction instead of having the US taxpayer subsidize. Ever wonder what that true foreign labor cost would be if the US soldier wasn't there to protect those trade routes open for those "so-called" cheaper goods to make it here in the first place?</p><p></p><p>Yep, that's an intervention that sustains a market most likely unsustainable without. Not only are we losing jobs but we're paying again to protect them. Time to stop doing so. Bring the troops and our jobs home!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 695874, member: 2189"] Klein, [URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20090906024846/http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/05/defense-spending-as-a-global-public-good.php'][COLOR=red]When your country no longer suckles the US teat[/COLOR][/URL], I'll then take your bogus claims on a more serious nature! Where Matthew does error in his conclusion on Canada's defense spending savings it that the US military global footprint maintains not only the openness of transportation routes and sea lanes at least in a sense that lone countries are afraid to exploit these areas for their own revenue purposes but that also the US military maintains a hegemic structure for western economic practices and chiefly for dominance of our currencies over and above potential non-western rivals. Petro dollars anyone! If Canada (or other nations for that matter) had to all of a sudden pay it's "fairshare" of enjoying this free ride, I wonder then what the effects would be to your nation's national interests then? I for one want to withdraw all global US military forces from around the globe and then force all you free loaders and the free loading corp. interests to then have to foot the full bill of global trade to where the producer and consumer face the full price of this transaction instead of having the US taxpayer subsidize. Ever wonder what that true foreign labor cost would be if the US soldier wasn't there to protect those trade routes open for those "so-called" cheaper goods to make it here in the first place? Yep, that's an intervention that sustains a market most likely unsustainable without. Not only are we losing jobs but we're paying again to protect them. Time to stop doing so. Bring the troops and our jobs home! [/QUOTE]
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