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Originally Posted by HockeyIlliterate
Well, one way for the US to come up with more money for health care (without raising taxes) is to cut overall military spending and stop funding/subsidizing other nations' defense programs.
Do you think that Canada would be okay with that? Poland? South Korea? Or pick any almost any other country.
After all, it is probably relatively easy for a country to provide a national health care system to its citizens when it can offload a portion of its defense obligations to another nation. So, in that respect, perhaps the poor and uninsured in the US should really look to Canadians, Poles, South Koreans, and the citizens of other such nations as the reason why they don't have affordable health care.
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Do you perhaps think that the United States has a huge military because it continually interferes with international politics for its own economic benefit? The massive military complex in the United States is a key economic driver with the United States selling around 1/3 of worldwide exports.
The country does a lot of good in the world but to view it as being selfless defender of the disenfranchised would be naive at best.