Stupidity & Fame: Jim Carey Does it Well

Dear Jim Carey, please, just SHUT UP about your Canadian healthcare.  You can tell Bernie Sanders this too.

Lord I tire of the comparisons of any country to the U.S. when people say, “well look at Canada, it works in Canada, we should do it here.”  Or in “Denmark they do, blah, blah, blah…we should do it in the U.S.”  It is always a look how GOOD it is there and a claim that the US should be as “good” or should do something the same way. 

Well stop it.  All of you just stop it.  It isn’t apples to apples.  To compare even the U.S. to Canada is apples to shish-kebabs, they aren’t even in the same UNIVERSE (well they are, but point making, you know).

Why you say?

U.S. population: 330,000,000 – that is THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY MILLION PEOPLE.

Canada population: 37,000,000 – thirty-seven million...  There are MORE people in the state of California than ALL of Canada. So they are running a state, we are running a nation.

Let’s look just at defense spending.

U.S. defense spending is 647,000,000,000. That is 647 BILLION dollars. I equates to 3.1% of the U.S. GDP – but pay attention to this, the US share of defense spending for the world is 35%. That means that if you add up all defense spending of all countries, our share of all that spending is 35% and our nation only makes up 18% of the world’s population. We will explain why in a minute but in a nutshell it means that MANY, MANY allied nations DO NOT SPEND BECAUSE THEY RELY ON THE U.S.

Canada’s defense spending is $16.4 billion.  It equates to 1.3% of their GDP and 1.2% of the world’s “share” of defense spending.  So Canada has 10% of our population but their defense spending is about 1/35^th of ours.  Hmmm…  If you look at it in real terms, meaning in equal, “apples to apples” terms, the U.S. spends 3.61% of its GDP on defense, Canada 1/3^rd of that at 1.2%. Canada KNOWS it doesn’t need to defend itself because WE will.  Nice for them! This leaves Canada’s revenue free to offer stuff to their people for FREE!  I know you LOVE that part Mr. Carey!

Canada doesn’t have a poorly controlled border with illegal entry overwhelming it; with terrorists laughing at it; with illicit drugs pouring over, through and under it. Just illegal immigration costs the U.S. tax payer $116 BILLION dollars annually. The illegal drugs that cross our border costs billions or even hundreds of billions more in enforcement and intervention. That money belongs to U.S. citizens and should be spent on U.S. citizens.  Canada doesn’t have a fraction of a fraction of this problem Mr. Carey.  Hell, Italy, Brazil and Australia spend more in dollars that your mother-Canada does!  And Romania, Bulgaria and Lithuania spend a greater share of their GDP than Canada does.  How about Canada stepping up before you start comparing the U.S. to Canada?

Oh I already hear the lamentations of defense spending, “The U.S. spends too much!”  Um, no and YES!  It IS time that other nations step up and pay for THEMSELVES but since they don’t, won’t and face no consequences for not doing so, the U.S. must.  There are serious reasons why we spend what we do.  For instance, we MUST defend Canada because we share the continent with them; we cannot allow an invasion of them.  They know that so they don’t spend, so we must.  We also defend the vast majority of Europe.  

Only FIVE of TWENTY-EIGHT member nations in NATO meet the 2% GPD for defense spending their membership requires.  These five are the U.S., Great Britain, Poland, Greece and Estonia.  The latter 3 have such low GDPs (relatively speaking) that their 2% doesn’t total a large sum of money. Defense spending for these three nations in dollars are: Greece: $9.3 billion, Poland: $10 billion, Estonia: $478 million for a total of $19.8 billion +/-.  Although, in EVERY WAY these nations are paying their “fair share” since they do pony up the 2% of their GDP.  

Why does that term “fair share” work so well for the Left when they use it but not when it comes to defense spending?  The “peaceful, socialist-like” nations of Europe as well as Canada are only free to be that way because the U.S. defends them and they KNOW the U.S. will defend them. When the other 23 NATO member-nations don’t achieve the 2% there are no consequences.  None. Germany spends about 1.2% of GDP on defense, France 1.79%. Belgium, Spain and Luxembourg all spend less than 1%. Their consequences are nil and they know it.

Because the U.S. KNOWS it cannot afford a repeat of WWII, it must also defend Europe. 

Defend them from what?  Well the number two spender for defense is China.  The number three is Saudi Arabia and number six globally is Russia.  The total spending of these three not-so-friendly nations is: $254,725,000,000.  THAT’S WHY.

So in summary of this quick snippet, Mr. Carey, you can shut up now.  You are ignorant and haven’t a clue what you are talking about.  Big pictures matter Jimbo, crack a book, do some homework...or please go away!