Hi Ann,
Can I take back my glowing praise of your analytical abilities? <gg> You have the pro-life issue wired. IMVHO, you're much weaker on assessing the internal dynamics of the USSR's economy in the last days of the Russian Empire. You attribute to our bullying stance what in fact was actually more of a confluence of internal contradictions within the structures created by the nomenclatura. You completely negate the huge impact that mis-directed expenditures within the Soviet system had on its capacity to continue "in business". Just like with our current fetish with over-reaching across the globe with gargantuan requirements for national treasury to fight pissant wars from the Fergama Valley to Putumayo to the last outpost in the Philipines, the Soviets allowed hubris to overcome sensible fiscal restraint. We're next. Though it won't happen overnight, of course.
Re: The ensuing decade brought a booming economy because the USSR's collapse made a worldwide economy possible.
Again, complete and utter nonsense. There was no worldwide boom in the 1990's. It was highly localized and certainly excluded the CIS states, Africa, most of South America and all of the Mid East states without oil, excepting Lebanon.
Japan was mired in recession for the entire decade. It was only the U.S. and the Asian Tigers that really had a grand run. And even there, the jury is out on how real it all was. There is a vast level of chicanery in the books of the corporations that supposedly created the U.S. boom, as is true of the completely fictitious GDP numbers that our government is concocting for various purposes. Here's a good read on why the numbers are not what they seem to be:
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So, if you would be so kind as to use that sharp mind of yours to do some real analysis and cease to merely mimic the conventional claptrap that the Rove/Hughes lie machine want to spew, maybe we can discuss this like adults.
Cordially, Ray :) |
