> You're joking, right? The U.S. military not only pumps $400 billion a
year
> into the world economy that otherwise wouldn't be there,
If we didn't spend the money on the military, it could and probably would be pumped into the US and/or world economy in some other form.
> it also polices cheap oil, which is the basis for the the
autos-ueber-alles transportation
> systems of North America, which, in turn probably account for 33 percent
of
> GDP here, Canada included.
It is true that it would've been bad for the US economy if Saddam had counquered Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and decided to turn the spigot off--but he probably wouldn't have decided to turn the spigot off.
> This is all without even mentioning the more general policing of the Third
> World and its cheap commodity exports.
>
> And Canadians imagine we're the only deluded ones!
What's deluded is the thought that (as DeLong might put it) the US economy needs cheap Chiquita bananas to prosper.
-- Luke