Canada

I'd be fine with that if we were simply spending that money entirely within Canada. Invest in some infrastructure. Give me a new job building military death robots, at this point I don't care as long as I get paid. I'll work 16 hours a day building military death robots or winding rotors for drone motors for the national defense as long as it pays me enough to put a roof over my head and food on my table. This should not be a large ask. If we're going to build affordable housing like we did in wartime and invest in defense like we're already at war we may as well have a wartime economy to go with it. Break out the fucking food rations and government workhouses already.

But instead we let costs of living spiral wildly out of control and pretend inflation isn't exploding because the only thing in the consumer price index which isn't skyrocketing is the over-represented falling price of gas, which people aren't using as much of anymore due to WFH and EVs. Then we blow our entire budget of countless billions of dollars on other countries' designs and intellectual property and partnerships where they do all the skilled and value-added work and then we end up employing 1,000 people here if we're lucky, while we have to ask permission to fix it and pay them to train us how to use it.

Yeah, it's our own damn fault for cancelling, selling, giving away, or letting other countries sabotage any of our designs or intellectual property of value and letting our infrastructure for building any of it rot to dust for at least half a century, and there's no easy way back from that. I get it. But knowing that doesn't make it any less infuriating.