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Originally Posted by Jefferson I'd say that Reagan was a piece of the puzzle - but actually a rather significant piece.
The United States could afford to accelerate the arms race - even though we didn't accelerate it as much as was thought. The USSR was on the brink of collapse, and their "trying to keep up" put them over the edge. | Quite frankly, Russia was a car stuck in drive with no steering capability and no breaks, headed towards a cliff.
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Originally Posted by Jefferson And yes, there were many other factors involved - including the basic fact that an atheistic, communist regime simply cannot be self-sustaining. | I wonder about that with regards to China.
And if China is to fall, how hard of a fall will it be... Quote: |
Originally Posted by Jefferson Whether it was months or years, Reagan's approach definitely accelerated the collapse of the USSR.
Oh yeah... And you're a pig. | No. I'm not a pig. So you're STILL wrong.
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On another note, blaming Clinton or giving Reagan credit, or vice versa, for the economy trends is like blaming a liberal or conservative for the tides.
The economy just plain CYCLES. That's what it does. Regardless of who is at the helm.
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The Regular Cycles of Money, Inflation, Regulation and Depressions
In his 1984 book “Regular Cycles of Money, Inflation, Regulation and Depressions” Ravi Batra presented a calculation of decennial averages for i) money growth, ii) number of new regulationary laws or institutions and iii) inflation in the USA for a period exceeding two hundred years. The cycles were of a regular rise and then decline in the above mentioned variables. While an unrelated prediction for a depression to unfold in the 1990s failed to materialise, the evolution of these variables in the 1990s and 2000s has broadly conformed to the regular decennial pattern. Business cycle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "(Gay marriage) is a debate about whether you think gay people are part of the human condition or just a random fetish."
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