PMQs and modern good quality singles quarters. Thousands and thousands of housing units could absolutely be buried as defense spending- and it would even be largely honest given that it would support recruiting and retention and allow for units to grow.
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PMQs and modern good quality singles quarters. Thousands and thousands of housing units could absolutely be buried as defense spending- and it would even be largely honest given that it would support recruiting and retention and allow for units to grow.
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Military housing - sure. Anything that is actual defence spending, but the post seems to want to lump domestic policing, courts, foreign aid and maybe highway maintenance into some arbitrary GDP percentage that Trump has a had a wet dream about.
Yup. It was a weird notion which was why I pushed back gently on it.
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Throw in transient/shared/training quarters that aren't Early Cold War living history exhibits or offgassing cheap prefabs, spec the build quality to match the durability of the Victorian and post-WWII stuff, and there's a nice healthy boost to the defence budget.
Transient is another word for homeless so it actually fits better than you think.
So, the few times I ever booked transient shacks for some dirt cheap sleep on personal travel I normally lucked in to a good room. Tried that trick with my at that time relatively new girlfriend once, ended up with a super dingy room in Kingston that she described as ‘dinosaur farts’. Base Kingston did me a dirty.
We walked away from the $15 or whatever and got a hotel.
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There are two separate, but connected issues.
Trump wants to strengthen America's balance sheet. Defence is a major discretionary budget for him and for us. Others, including us, have come to depend on America's discretion to protect themselves. Trump wants to take some of that load off his books.
That is item 1.
Item 2 is that NATO as a club, collectively, and prior to the rise of the Donald, had decided that membership was worth a common tax of 2% of GDP. That number is now in the process of rising with or without the Donald.
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Concurrent activity.
Donald has some other beefs he wants addressing. These include some trade and border issues.
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Bundling all of these issues together he has put a price tag on them. 100 BUSD is the price to Canada of conducting business as usual.
If we want to reduce that price tag then we need to pony up with some combination of defence spending, border spending and trade benefits.
Cops are not a NATO expenditure. Courts are not a NATO expenditure. But they are important, apparently to Donald. And he measures how seriously we are taking him by the amount of money we are willing to spend.
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So just send him out Statement of Public Accounts. I think 2023-2024 is available. I'm not sure how us spending more money is going to result in them spending less money. I doubt
That $100Bn (if that figure is accurate) is a trade deficit, not a subsidy like he has been spouting. The solution is theirs - stop buying our stuff (mostly petroleum). Us spending more money, alone, isn't going to change that.
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Ahhh yes. I know those shacks well.
C52/53 are the tip tier accomodations now. $90 a night in a room you wouldn't be ashamed to bring a guest into.
Stayed in those last June. Quite nice.