On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:19:59 -0500, Skipper wrote:

Not fact, but a barking dog's Looney Left *opinion*.
Now that is a strong argument

More Leftist lunacy.
Now that is a strong argument

That "overspending" brought the Cold War to an end. The Soviet Union
came to the realization that they could no longer to compete. Have you
seen those rusting hulks in their harbors and airports?
You extensively overestimate the us influence here (a frightening lot
of americans have that tendency as I have noticed).
Obviously the system of planned economy was flawed.
My father had commercial connections with russia and one time he
returned from a business trip with a marvellous story.
A director of a screwdriver-factory had become hero of the USSR cause
he had met the tasks he was given: process x tonnes of steel and y
tonnes of plastic in 1 year time. He had succeeded by producing
screwdrivers of 7 feet long.....
Now, do you really think the russians needed Reagan and his ridiculous
star wars plans to see they had to alter things badly?

You must be a believer in Keynesian economics. You'd be better served to
read the brilliant works of Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel
Prize for economic science.
It's done before, using a neutral scientists name to cover ones own
scemes. And could you elaborate on the brilliancy of Friedmans work
yourself?

You must be a believer in the economics of liberal stagflation.
All I say is when you spend money, you will have to collect it, not
push the debt forward to next generations, that's pure theft.

The rich always become richer...it's a law of nature, like death and
taxes.
When there's people thinking like you pulling the strings, you're
probably right. But that doesn't alter the fact that it is a
disappointingly low standard in civilisation, particularly when people
start to treat it like a given certainty.