We do it silently

I've heard rumors of "death councils" or whatnot in Canada for people on life support, since the healthcare buck stops with the government in Canada instead of the family

y'all are so fucking loud on the world stage Canada can do almost anything without being noticed

Gordon Sinclair said something to that effect

"You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at."

There's a pierre trudeau quote I like, for when I talk about america a lot and someone says "why does it matter we're not America":

well hey, if it makes you feel any better..:

As a Canadian speaking right after the US pulled out of Vietnam, he continued, "Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them ... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here."

`"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. Pierre Trudeau"`

My favorite Pierre Trudeau quote is this one

He was a real badass

@franti The author of the original saw fit to lump in VA and DHS with DOD, so I thought it was only fair to do the same

Yannow, I went to NYC once

and saw the national debt clock

That quote I have that image of is from annexation.ca

your country was going up by like 100,000 per secon

(my screen wasn't scrolling so I missed all the messages)

14,000,000,000,000 and rising constantly

the fuck is wrong with yuo guys

Nowadays we have this http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Portable debt clock!

With details

that's debt

the pink line is that year's deficit

which is added to the total debt

Basically they spent 1.645 trillion more dollars than they raked in with tax receipts

@King Canuck Here's the Canadian equivalent http://www.debtclock.ca/

@RMS_Gigantic Do you have one for the EU?

The whole EU?

No

Specific states in it

Like France UK Germany

This, allegedly https://www.debtclocks.eu/public-debt-and-budget-deficits-comparison-of-the-eu-member-states.html

@Reaps

@King Canuck Also remember that a big part of why our debt is so large is social security and medicare/medcaid

https://www.debtclocks.eu/public-debt-and-budget-deficit-of-estonia.html

Dat Estonia

The nice thing about the US is how little of our debt is owed to anyone else

Most of our debt is owed to ourselves

And as the dominant economy in the world, we're our own main debt collector