The roughly 65 million retirees who collect Social Security benefits in the US will get a 8.7% increase next year, the largest bump since 1981, to compensate for the highest inflation bout in decades
Problem is the inflation numbers are made up. It's a lot more. Next month well over 9% and climbing. They just needed to hold the appearance down until the COLA decision was made.
Canada’s active troop strength has been steadily declining since the end of the Cold War, dropping from 88,000 in 1989 to 72,000 in 2019. It currently stands at 63,781 — 10,000 short of where military brass think it needs to be to meet current demands — putting us behind adversaries and allies alike. Canada has about 1.9 active military personnel for every 1,000 people, compared to 2.1 in the United Kingdom, 2.5 in Australia, 4.2 in the United States and 7.1 in Russia, our perennial adversary and northern neighbour that has no qualms about using military force to achieve its aims.
When the US gets to the same as Canada the continent will resort to the draft. It’s coming folks.
Guess they stopped the pilfering of the SOR
