Mary Margaret Olihan
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Well, look at the prime minister of Canada and how he's talking, even though he's under our protection blanket.
And you can see that people are not always grateful.
In fact, they can be ungrateful for what they receive from the United States taxpayers.
And in that case, if you've ever been in a neighborhood where a lot of people are on welfare,
you can kind of get the idea of how the Greenlanders operate because they receive 20% of their budget yearly from Denmark, a $600 million transfer.
Now, Denmark's benefited financially a lot.
They took out
I think it's almost $30 billion in cryolite over the years from Greenland.
And many, they have their hands in other businesses in Greenland.
So they benefit financially.
But they send this welfare payment of $600 million every year to the Greenlanders.
And without it, the Greenlanders wouldn't have kind of the very comfortable lives that they have.
They run it too.
So they run the foreign policy and the defense policy.
I suspect we will be running the defense policy, I suspect, going forward.
And by the way, everything I say is in my personal capacity, not in any affiliation with any group.
I only speak for myself.
But I think that...
The Greenlanders are, this is going to be hard for the Greenlanders because they actually wanted to go independent.
But if you can imagine 57,000 people, so the size of a regular sized town, living on the world's largest island where the part that's not covered in ice is bigger than California.