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Anonymous
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Please. You guys need to apply a variation of Occams Razor: "Never attribute to sinster influences what can also be explained by greed, laziness, and short term thinking."
We Canadians want it all. We whine for "free" public health care, and we get it. We whine for special payouts to aboriginals, french speaking catholics, etc., and they get it. We whine for social assistance, subsidized insurance, utterly useless gun registries, safe injection sites, and we get them.
But the money for all this has to come from somewhere, and there really is a limit to how much can be sponged away in income tax, GST, PST, fees, surcharges, etc. before the economy utterly collapses. So we cut corners in the budget wherever possible, and the military is the single biggest expense we can afford to cut.
Think about it: We know that when the shit hits the fan, the States will use their expensive military to cover our asses, if only to protect their own. We gladly let them bear the expense for the military strength that protects us too. But there's no fucking way the States will also pay for a public health care system for us, so we pay for that ourselves, and we can afford to by not bothering to have a real military.
Oh, and the Avro Arrow was simply too expensive for Canada to build in any numbers. We didn't have the manufacturing capacity, and besides, all our best engineers were already moving south to much better paying jobs in the States. So again, it's simply a case of us not wanting to pay for it.
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