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To: TimF who wrote (69852)	1/12/2009 3:36:57 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

>>but borrowing the money helped bring and end to the cold war. (Not that it all went to the military, entitlement spending increased a lot, probably taking up more new money, and certainly more total money, than defense spending).< koan: I hear the above mantra from "Reaganites" all the time and it drives me nuts-lol "The assertion you are making above is not logical, ask Jack chit-lol. In economics it is called the fallacy of "That is therefore because of this"; or Post hoc ergo proptor hoc". There is no way to determine if the increased military spending had anything to do with the fall of Russia. You cannot just make those assrtions out of the clear blue sky.