This is just false

Post #158,730 by deSitter 6/7/04 1:27:41 AM Reply	This is just false Keeping up the military machine is as much a drain on us as it was on them (look around you if you want to see the results). The difference was not a matter of pressure, but temperature - their economy burned out ON ITS OWN. This fiction that "Reagan won the Cold War by outspending the Russians" is astoundingly bad history. This is another reason why you do not piss away your treasury and energy on large standing armies. -drl
Post #158,732 by ben_tilly 6/7/04 1:37:14 AM Reply	Did you respond to the wrong post? What Bill said above is not simply false. There was a trade deficit when Reagan started in office, not a surplus. I had that wrong. Bill pointed that out. There was no discussion of politics with the USSR there. I haven't been able to verify his claim that deficits started on Carter's watch though. Cheers, Ben To deny the indirect purchaser, who in this case is the ultimate purchaser, the right to seek relief from unlawful conduct, would essentially remove the word consumer from the Consumer Protection Act - [link\|http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1246&Page=1&pagePos=20\|Nebraska Supreme Court]
Post #158,733 by deSitter 6/7/04 1:41:05 AM Reply	Oops - had both open - put this under beep "outspent" -drl
Post #158,734 by bepatient 6/7/04 1:52:52 AM Reply	I gave you the pictures. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #158,735 by bepatient 6/7/04 1:59:33 AM Reply	It is a vast simplification. But it is not as patently false as you want it to be. You are indeed correct in assuming that the soviet economy was caving in on itself, however the vast amount of resources required to keep pace with us was a HUGE drain on their foreign currency reserves, it created "false" shortages of necessary living products, etc... THe spending itself would not have killed a functional economy (that quickly...as the jury is still out on what it has done to ours)...but one so hobbled from poor central planning and a desperate lack of liquid currency...well you can see what happened. However...that level of spending did indeed speed things along quite nicely. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]

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