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That is total spending expressed as a % of GDP not spending expressed in dollars.  Try using $Billions as the Y axis instead.

Semantics. USPS has a monopoly and is exempt from paying Federal taxes. It's inefficiency and poor service is a direct tax or increased cost compared to what a more efficient and competent system would provide. It's not because the workers are lazy or incompetent. It is that an inefficient and...

You got suckered by the misleading CBC headline. He was specifically talking about the biggest security threat not biggest threat in general. Reading the article itself makes this very clear.

Voter ID laws are so lax there is no evidence produced when voter fraud does occur. Not much more than "I am John Doe from Mary Jane Lane", "Here is your ballot" so once the vote is cast and the person leaves there is no way to detect let alone prosecute them if they are really "Bob from Doug...

The funeral does seem a bit overdone to me as well. One good thing is I looked up the list of Past State Funerals and researched a few of the names which made for some interesting reading. Not sure he will have much of a legacy as I don't see the NDP gaining enough outside of Quebec to be in...

Note: that is the 4th equation being worked into a different form and not a listing of all four equations.

Bush played the folksy card and won two terms in office.

Not sure of some of the points being made. Maybe I worded mine poorly so I will restate it: I see danger to civil liberties at both ends. No oversight leads to major abuse incidents and restrictive rules. Overly restrictive rules lead to terrorist attacks being successful. Then it repeats. My...

Seems we forget some of the lessons of 9/11 very quickly. Too many restrictive inflexible rules on things like sharing information between agencies resulted in the failure to prevent the attack.  The result was new rules and a new agency which by most estimations has eroded civil liberties much...

I remember watching Colin Powell's presentation to the UN and thought the WMD evidence offered was weak. More indications that such programs might exist not that they actually did exist. Like a picture of a vehicle that could possibly be used in some form of WMD production/use/training but...

Russia has less than 1/4 the GDP per captia and less than 1/2 the population of the US.  Lot of ground to make up if they are to surpass the US. There are a lot of challenges that will need to be met along the way. I don't trust extrapolating trends except to get some estimation of the...

Do you have a source for the numbers?  On February 12, 2010 the US debt ceiling was raised to $14.294 trillion and was recently raised again because they hit it. The population is 311,943,765 (1).  That works out to $45,822 for every man, woman and child. This is just the Federal debt. The...

Looks like you missed my point entirely as all you did was expand on the name calling and insults to any who doesn't agree with you while providing nothing to back up why your view is the correct one. Hint: If intelligence is distributed evenly then that means the Tea Party movement contains the...

An ignorant statement can be countered with knowledge. Your hate filled diatribe is a lot harder to counter. I would suggest your statement is worse overall in effect than his.

Libel law vs Charter of Rights has come up in SCC cases, one was Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto (Wikipedia article).  While breaking anonymity adds another twist the underlying law sure seems to be that speaking/writing untruths about public officials can result in being the target of...

Negative and positive attributes are evenly distributed in large populations so neither party has a lock on any of them. All your doing here is judging others based solely on your own opinion of yourself. I am smart, I think X, therefore people who think Y are dumb.  I think the responsible...

Two of them are also Fox programs. Guess the CBC is the "Fox North" for regular programs like Sun NEWS is supposed to be "Fox North" for news programming.

I think it would be good to directly link fiscal accountability with taxpayer funded budgets. Any taxpayer dollars not accounted for in a detailed public disclosure of spending are automatically removed from the next year's budget for that crown corporation. If they want to keep the spending...

It's just a way you can deceive with statistics. Basically you compare absolute values, change in values, percentage difference or percentage change etc depending on which goes your way and then close with a statement as if you compared something else. I can do it to: Lets look at the change...

That was mentioned in the part I quoted, "Black’s secretary was packing up because Black had been evicted from the premises".