Message from @Reaps
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"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
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
@King Canuck Also remember that a big part of why our debt is so large is social security and medicare/medcaid
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
What's anyone else gonna do, fight us?
```Chinese lenders snap up so much of the U.S. debt for one basic economic reason: protecting its “dollar-pegged” yuan.
Ever since the establishment of the Bretton Woods System in 1944, the value of China’s currency, the yuan, has been connected or “pegged” to the value of the U.S. dollar. This helps China hold down the cost of its exported goods, which tends to make China, like any nation, a stronger performer in international trade.
With the U.S. dollar considered one of the safest and most stable currencies in the world, dollar-pegging helps the Chinese government maintain the stability and value of the yuan. In May 2018, one Chinese yuan was worth about $0.16 U.S. dollar. ```