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[mijopo]

Not surprisingly, Canada tends to "outperform" the US on measures such as percentage below the poverty level, i.e., Canada has a lower percentage, gini coefficient (less disparity in income distribution) and health care statistics (lower costs, higher life expectancy and lower infant mortality rate). More surprisingly, I think, according to figures

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[holden_wake]

This is really interesting in the context that many anti-war folks in the states have used lots of illustrative examples as to what a waste the Iraq War has been. X number of schools, hospitals, infrastructure, development aid, money saved, lower taxes, would have been available if they didn't go to war.

The fact that government spending levels, debt/GDP ratio, taxation levels, are all starting to look pretty decent to Canada shows that the policy decision to go into Iraq and Afghanistan has had some long-term devastating fiscal implications.

It not only was a questionable decision from a foreign policy and national security policy perspective, but from a fiscal and social policy perspective as well.

[mijopo]

Who should they have listened to and what had they said?