What's the difference between the United States economy and Canada's economy?

<h3>What's the difference between the United States economy and Canada's economy?</h3>

What are Canada's expeditures and the United States expeditures for this year?


<strong>Canada best answer:</strong>
<p><i>Answer by simplicitus</i><br/>1. Canada has much lower income inequality:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality
so even though it has a slightly lower per capita PPP GDP
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD
It has a higher standard of living overall:
http://www.prosperity.com/
http://www.aguanomics.com/2012/10/oh-canada.html

In terms of the future, Canadians are better educated than Americans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Index
and have a higher percentage of immigrants
http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/07/19/a-fragmenting-america-–-pt-2/
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/05/immigration
and since immigrants create jobs:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303836404577475150586192134.html
http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/outsource-jobs-or-insource-workers.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/business/economy/31view.html
That's good for the future too.

2. For specific numbers, two good sites are the CIA Factbook and Trading Economics:</p>
<p><strong>Canada Mourns</strong>
<img alt="Canada" src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1023/1456619939_7559148034.jpg" width="400"/><br/>
<i>Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/58826468@N00/1456619939">Jasmic</a></i>
Perhaps one of the most heart rending, breathtaking and inspiring monuments in the world, the Vimy Ridge memorial stands as a visual representation of a nation mourning the loss of thousands of her sons. The central figure is of a woman, representing Canada, the look of anguish on her face almost too much to bear.

&quot;Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Canadian National Vimy Memorial which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras. The Memorial does more than mark the site of the engagement that Canadians were to remember with more pride than any other operation of the First World War. It stands as a tribute to all who served their country in battle in that four-year struggle and particularly to those who gave their lives. At the base of the Memorial, these words appear in French and in English:

<b>To the valour of their
Countrymen in the Great War
And in memory of their sixty
Thousand dead this monument
Is raised by the people of Canada</b>

Inscribed on the ramparts of the Memorial are the names of 11,285 Canadian soldiers who were posted as &quot;missing, presumed dead&quot; in France.&quot;

<a href="http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=memorials/ww1mem/Vimy&amp;CFID=19523948&amp;CFTOKEN=74689204">(Taken from the Veteran Affairs Canada Website)</a>

Designed by the Canadian Architect and Sculptor Walter Seymour Allward, it took 11 years to build and stands on a bed of 11000 tons of Concrete!

There is another version of this image that I have manipulated as a submission to the Dictionary of Image. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasmic/1456923573/in/photostream/">See it here</a>

<a href="http://loc.alize.us/#/flickr:1456619939">See where this picture was taken.</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/geotagging/discuss/72157594165549916/">[?]</a>

Explore - Highest position: 328 on Monday, October 1, 2007</p>

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