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From Canada: "Europe Reaps What It Sowed"- barely 30% of Europeanswork
From Canada: "Europe Reaps What It Sowed"- barely 30% of Europeans
work National Post: May 15, 2010, 9:45 AM by NP Editor http://preview.tinyurl.com/z136a10 Excerpt: "The economic shambles in Europe is the greatest crisis facing the West. It is a startling disintegration, especially given the lofty hopes briefly generated in the Europhoria of Western and Central European union following the implosion of the USSR. The United States, by contrast, remains a proud and determined country with a hard-working and immensely skilled work force, and is unafraid to deploy its superb military in good causes, exchanging live fire with civilization’s enemies..... .....The United States has made some disastrous economic mistakes and there are terrible problems in the justice, education and health-care systems, but it certainly has the means, if not at the moment apparently, the leadership, to work its way out of the problems. Such an incomparably successful country, having led the defeat of the Nazis, seen off the economic threat of Japan and induced and watched the soufflé-like collapse of the USSR and international Communism, can probably afford two decades of erratic leadership, as long as it ends soon. Dealing with the current problems will not be like falling off a log, but Americans, despite the widely accepted caricature of them as an obese lumpenbourgeoisie, have not been mollycoddled by the state as Europeans have and have not become inert and dyspeptic as most of the nationalities of the old continent have... ....It was only 10 or 15 years ago when European elites dreamed audibly of standing on each others’ shoulders and reliving the glories of Europe’s preeminence in the world, before it gave us Nazism and Communism. There abounded smug remarks to the effect that the United States was about to become a majority non-white country, which continued until much of Western Europe itself, stunted by a collapsed birthrate and trying to replace the unborn with unassimilable immigration, erupted in sectarian violence. (In the United States, meanwhile, almost all immigrants sign on to the American Way eventually, and their pigmentation is irrelevant.... ....the most chronic problem in Europe: Barely 30% of Europeans work, to sustain the rest. Working hours have been steadily reduced in most countries; holidays have multiplied, and perhaps even more than elsewhere, Europe has fled to service industry and public-sector employment, which is often not really productive work, or may be just disguised welfare, or at least workfare..... ....The 13 years of New Labour in Britain have squandered almost every advantage the 18 previous years of Margaret Thatcher and John Major accomplished, except flexible labour markets. Britain is overtaxed like the rest of Europe; public sector spending is over 50% of GDP, and now government is in the hands of a pantomime horse coalition of parties who do not agree on much and are led by two young pretty faces who have never been tested and were not impressive in the election campaign.... .....Russia is a melting iceberg, a sharply declining, alcohol-sodden population with no sign of economic progress or renewal apart from the oil industry and pandemic corruption and wilfull lawlessness in all areas of government. Its only distinct policy is to terrify or seduce former Soviet republics that seceded from the Soviet Union..." |
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From Canada: "Europe Reaps What It Sowed"- barely 30% ofEuropeans work
On May 16, 6:53*am, "Tis PJ O'Donovan" wrote:
From Canada: "Europe Reaps What It Sowed"- barely 30% of Europeans work What Europe need is an ultra capitalist genius like Bush to come in, change things around and shape things up like he left them in 2008. Thanks to Bush, 25% of Americans don't work or are underemployed. That's why they were so popular in the 2008 election. |
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From Canada: "Europe Reaps What It Sowed"- barely 30% ofEuropeans work
On May 16, 6:53*am, "Tis PJ O'Donovan" wrote:
From Canada: "Europe Reaps What It Sowed"- barely 30% of Europeans work National Post: May 15, 2010, 9:45 AM by NP Editor http://preview.tinyurl.com/z136a10 Excerpt: "The economic shambles in Europe is the greatest crisis facing the West. It is a startling disintegration, especially given the lofty hopes briefly generated in the Europhoria of Western and Central European union following the implosion of the USSR. The United States, by contrast, remains a proud and determined country with a hard-working and immensely skilled work force, and is unafraid to deploy its superb military in good causes, exchanging live fire with civilization’s enemies..... ....The United States has made some disastrous economic mistakes and there are terrible problems in the justice, education and health-care systems, but it certainly has the means, if not at the moment apparently, the leadership, to work its way out of the problems. Such an incomparably successful country, having led the defeat of the Nazis, seen off the economic threat of Japan and induced and watched the soufflé-like collapse of the USSR and international Communism, can probably afford two decades of erratic leadership, as long as it ends soon. Dealing with the current problems will not be like falling off a log, but Americans, despite the widely accepted caricature of them as an obese lumpenbourgeoisie, have not been mollycoddled by the state as Europeans have and have not become inert and dyspeptic as most of the nationalities of the old continent have... ...It was only 10 or 15 years ago when European elites dreamed audibly of standing on each others’ shoulders and reliving the glories of Europe’s preeminence in the world, before it gave us Nazism and Communism. There abounded smug remarks to the effect that the United States was about to become a majority non-white country, which continued until much of Western Europe itself, stunted by a collapsed birthrate and trying to replace the unborn with unassimilable immigration, erupted in sectarian violence. (In the United States, meanwhile, almost all immigrants sign on to the American Way eventually, and their pigmentation is irrelevant.... ...the most chronic problem in Europe: Barely 30% of Europeans work, to sustain the rest. Working hours have been steadily reduced in most countries; holidays have multiplied, and perhaps even more than elsewhere, Europe has fled to service industry and public-sector employment, which is often not really productive work, or may be just disguised welfare, or at least workfare..... ...The 13 years of New Labour in Britain have squandered almost every advantage the 18 previous years of Margaret Thatcher and John Major accomplished, except flexible labour markets. Britain is overtaxed like the rest of Europe; public sector spending is over 50% of GDP, and now government is in the hands of a pantomime horse coalition of parties who do not agree on much and are led by two young pretty faces who have never been tested and were not impressive in the election campaign.... ....Russia is a melting iceberg, a sharply declining, alcohol-sodden population with no sign of economic progress or renewal apart from the oil industry and pandemic corruption and wilfull lawlessness in all areas of government. Its only distinct policy is to terrify or seduce former Soviet republics that seceded from the Soviet Union..." Selected responses to the article: by almasy May 15 2010 12:35 PM .. Back in the mid-nineties I lived in the UK and was working an entry level job at a firm. After being there for 6 months and watching several terrible coworkers get promoted who started at the same time, I asked a senior manager about this and was informed that I was "working far too hard" and "this isn't North America". He then went on to tell me that I would never be promoted as long as I worked so hard because they would never be able to find someone who would work that hard at my position. He told me to "ease off a bit" and my prospects for advancement would improve. I still remember the thought in my head; What a society you are building here. by ZeeBC May 15 2010 1:06 PM You have it right Almasy. Good workers are hard to replace. It is best to promote the useless and indolent so production does not suffer. This only occurs in government and large unionized companies. It is easy to see the root cause of Europe's slide into mediocrity and irrelevance. Socialism. |
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From Canada: "Europe Reaps What It Sowed"- barely 30% ofEuropeans work
On May 16, 9:59*am, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself"
wrote: On May 16, 6:53*am, "Tis PJ O'Donovan" wrote: From Canada: "Europe Reaps What It Sowed"- barely 30% of Europeans work National Post: May 15, 2010, 9:45 AM by NP Editor http://preview.tinyurl.com/z136a10 Excerpt: "The economic shambles in Europe is the greatest crisis facing the West. It is a startling disintegration, especially given the lofty hopes briefly generated in the Europhoria of Western and Central European union following the implosion of the USSR. The United States, by contrast, remains a proud and determined country with a hard-working and immensely skilled work force, and is unafraid to deploy its superb military in good causes, exchanging live fire with civilization’s enemies..... ....The United States has made some disastrous economic mistakes and there are terrible problems in the justice, education and health-care systems, but it certainly has the means, if not at the moment apparently, the leadership, to work its way out of the problems. Such an incomparably successful country, having led the defeat of the Nazis, seen off the economic threat of Japan and induced and watched the soufflé-like collapse of the USSR and international Communism, can probably afford two decades of erratic leadership, as long as it ends soon. Dealing with the current problems will not be like falling off a log, but Americans, despite the widely accepted caricature of them as an obese lumpenbourgeoisie, have not been mollycoddled by the state as Europeans have and have not become inert and dyspeptic as most of the nationalities of the old continent have... ...It was only 10 or 15 years ago when European elites dreamed audibly of standing on each others’ shoulders and reliving the glories of Europe’s preeminence in the world, before it gave us Nazism and Communism. There abounded smug remarks to the effect that the United States was about to become a majority non-white country, which continued until much of Western Europe itself, stunted by a collapsed birthrate and trying to replace the unborn with unassimilable immigration, erupted in sectarian violence. (In the United States, meanwhile, almost all immigrants sign on to the American Way eventually, and their pigmentation is irrelevant.... ...the most chronic problem in Europe: Barely 30% of Europeans work, to sustain the rest. Working hours have been steadily reduced in most countries; holidays have multiplied, and perhaps even more than elsewhere, Europe has fled to service industry and public-sector employment, which is often not really productive work, or may be just disguised welfare, or at least workfare..... ...The 13 years of New Labour in Britain have squandered almost every advantage the 18 previous years of Margaret Thatcher and John Major accomplished, except flexible labour markets. Britain is overtaxed like the rest of Europe; public sector spending is over 50% of GDP, and now government is in the hands of a pantomime horse coalition of parties who do not agree on much and are led by two young pretty faces who have never been tested and were not impressive in the election campaign.... ....Russia is a melting iceberg, a sharply declining, alcohol-sodden population with no sign of economic progress or renewal apart from the oil industry and pandemic corruption and wilfull lawlessness in all areas of government. Its only distinct policy is to terrify or seduce former Soviet republics that seceded from the Soviet Union..." Selected responses to the article: by almasy May 15 2010 12:35 PM . Back in the mid-nineties I lived in the UK and was working an entry level job at a firm. After being there for 6 months and watching several terrible coworkers get promoted who started at the same time, I asked a senior manager about this and was informed that I was "working far too hard" and "this isn't North America". He then went on to tell me that I would never be promoted as long as I worked so hard because they would never be able to find someone who would work that hard at my position. He told me to "ease off a bit" *and my prospects for advancement would improve. I still remember the thought in my head; What a society you are building here. by ZeeBC May 15 2010 1:06 PM You have it right Almasy. Good workers are hard to replace. It is best to promote the useless and indolent so production does not suffer. This only occurs in government and large unionized companies. It is easy to see the root cause of Europe's slide into mediocrity and irrelevance. Socialism. Another response from a reader of the article appearing in the Canadian National Post There's no one like a leftie for sheer nastiness. by wholstenson May 15 2010 2:19 PM We could be fast coming to an important and historic transition point in the realm of failed economic theory. The dominant economic theory of Europe and the rest of the world is Keynesianism. The writer does a superb job of describing the economic shambles of Europe and omits recognizing that the rest of the world is following closely behind, IMO. John Maynard Keynes as a Fabian Socialist can never be confused with being a friend or ally of the capitalism/liberty-oriented Western world. He understood that the most subtle way to undermine and destroy Western Civilization was to "debauch the currency". Oddly enough this same thinking is shown in the musings of V.I. Lenin. What we observe today in Europe is the ultimate collapse of the dominant economic theories of Keynes. It was designed to fail and move the world closer to the noose of absolute control of all life on the planet — just as envisioned by John Maynard Keynes and his socialist allies |
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More Phony Numbers, More Hysteria From the Party of NO's Canadian office: "Europe Reaps What It Sowed"- barely 30% of Europeans work
freeisbest wrote
YOU rightards spent out the U.S. Treasury because YOU wanted soviet free-market-hating godless evil commonists absolutely destroyed... and the Soviet Union was absolutely destroyed. YOU turned Russia into a desperate free-market sewer. Now you're blubbering about it... and at the same time planning to bring down Europe if you can. Unbelievable. Reagan Cold War Myth Under the assumption that the Soviet Union could not then outspend the US government in a renewed arms race, Reagan strove to make the Cold War economically and rhetorically hot. Many analysts argue that the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union was due more to the re-emergence of separatist movements under glasnost, an inherent weakness in communist economic theory, and the depressed global price of crude oil, on which the Soviet economy during those years depended heavily. Furthermore, Reagan's much heralded military buildup that increased American military spending by 8% per annum in fact did not appear to have the planned effect of forcing the Soviets to mirror American growth: according to CIA estimates, Soviet military spending leveled off at a growth rate of 1.3% per annum in 1975 and remained at that level for a decade, although it more than tripled to approximately 4.3% in 1985 through 1987 (though spending on offensive strategic weapons continued to grow at 1.3% during that period), before returning to 1.3% in 1988. Perhaps more startling, Reagan's military build up, coupled with his fierce anti-soviet rhetoric, contributed to Soviet near-panic reaction to a routine NATO exercises in November 1983, ABLE ARCHER 83. Though the threat of nuclear war ended abruptly with the end of the exercise, this historically obscure incident illustrates the possible negative repercussions of Reagan's "standing tall" to a nuclear power. Some historians, among them Beth B. Fischer in her book The Reagan Reversal, pin ABLE ARCHER 83 as an incident which had a profound effect on President Reagan and his turn from a policy of Confrontation towards the Soviet Union to a policy of rapprochement. |
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More Phony Numbers, More Hysteria From the Party of NO's Canadian
On May 16, 3:51*pm, wrote:
freeisbest wrote * * *YOU rightards spent out the U.S. Treasury because YOU wanted soviet free-market-hating godless evil commonists absolutely destroyed... and the Soviet Union was absolutely destroyed. *YOU turned Russia into a desperate free-market sewer. * * *Now you're blubbering about it... and at the same time planning to bring down Europe if you can. * * *Unbelievable. Reagan Cold War Myth Under the assumption that the Soviet Union could not then outspend the US government in a renewed arms race, Reagan strove to make the Cold War economically and rhetorically hot. Many analysts argue that the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union was due more to the re-emergence of separatist movements under glasnost, an inherent weakness in communist economic theory, and the depressed global price of crude oil, on which the Soviet economy during those years depended heavily. Furthermore, Reagan's much heralded military buildup that increased American military spending by 8% per annum in fact did not appear to have the planned effect of forcing the Soviets to mirror American growth: according to CIA estimates, Soviet military spending leveled off at a growth rate of 1.3% per annum in 1975 and remained at that level for a decade, although it more than tripled to approximately 4.3% in 1985 through 1987 (though spending on offensive strategic weapons continued to grow at 1.3% during that period), before returning to 1.3% in 1988. Perhaps more startling, Reagan's military build up, coupled with his fierce anti-soviet rhetoric, contributed to Soviet near-panic reaction to a routine NATO exercises in November 1983, ABLE ARCHER 83. Though the threat of nuclear war ended abruptly with the end of the exercise, this historically obscure incident illustrates the possible negative repercussions of Reagan's "standing tall" to a nuclear power. Some historians, among them Beth B. Fischer in her book The Reagan Reversal, pin ABLE ARCHER 83 as an incident which had a profound effect on President Reagan and his turn from a policy of Confrontation towards the Soviet Union to a policy of rapprochement. More Soviet propaganda to feed the gullibility of useful idiots in Leftism still in shock over the collapse of their beloved Bolsheviks. Martin Walker: The Cold War pg 114 "In the 1960s and 1970s anti Vietnam war critics claimed that the CIA, which estimated that 12 to 16 percent of the Gross Domestic Product of the Soviet Union was devoted to its military, exagerated the scale of the Soviet buildup. After the Cold War it was learned that the CIA had grossly UNDERESTIMATED Soviet military spending which was as high as 25 percent of Soviet GDP during that time.." |
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From Canada: "Europe Reaps What It Sowed"- barely 30% of Europeanswork
On May 16, 3:51*pm, wrote:
freeisbest wrote * * *YOU rightards spent out the U.S. Treasury because YOU wanted soviet free-market-hating godless evil commonists absolutely destroyed... and the Soviet Union was absolutely destroyed. *YOU turned Russia into a desperate free-market sewer. * * *Now you're blubbering about it... and at the same time planning to bring down Europe if you can. * * *Unbelievable. Reagan Cold War Myth Under the assumption that the Soviet Union could not then outspend the US government in a renewed arms race, Reagan strove to make the Cold War economically and rhetorically hot. Many analysts argue that the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union was due more to the re-emergence of separatist movements under glasnost, an inherent weakness in communist economic theory, and the depressed global price of crude oil, on which the Soviet economy during those years depended heavily. Furthermore, Reagan's much heralded military buildup that increased American military spending by 8% per annum in fact did not appear to have the planned effect of forcing the Soviets to mirror American growth: according to CIA estimates, Soviet military spending leveled off at a growth rate of 1.3% per annum in 1975 and remained at that level for a decade, although it more than tripled to approximately 4.3% in 1985 through 1987 (though spending on offensive strategic weapons continued to grow at 1.3% during that period), before returning to 1.3% in 1988. Perhaps more startling, Reagan's military build up, coupled with his fierce anti-soviet rhetoric, contributed to Soviet near-panic reaction to a routine NATO exercises in November 1983, ABLE ARCHER 83. Though the threat of nuclear war ended abruptly with the end of the exercise, this historically obscure incident illustrates the possible negative repercussions of Reagan's "standing tall" to a nuclear power. Some historians, among them Beth B. Fischer in her book The Reagan Reversal, pin ABLE ARCHER 83 as an incident which had a profound effect on President Reagan and his turn from a policy of Confrontation towards the Soviet Union to a policy of rapprochement. More Soviet propaganda to feed the gullibility of useful idiots in Leftism still in shock over the collapse of their beloved Bolsheviks. Martin Walker: The Cold War pg 114 "In the 1960s and 1970s anti Vietnam war critics claimed that the CIA, which estimated that 12 to 16 percent of the Gross Domestic Product of the Soviet Union was devoted to its military, exagerated the scale of the Soviet buildup. After the Cold War it was learned that the CIA had grossly UNDERESTIMATED Soviet military spending which was as high as 25 percent of Soviet GDP during that time.." |
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From Canada: "Europe Reaps What It Sowed"- barely 30% ofEuropeans work
On May 16, 4:23*pm, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself"
wrote: On May 16, 3:51*pm, wrote: freeisbest wrote * * *YOU rightards spent out the U.S. Treasury because YOU wanted soviet free-market-hating godless evil commonists absolutely destroyed... and the Soviet Union was absolutely destroyed. *YOU turned Russia into a desperate free-market sewer. * * *Now you're blubbering about it... and at the same time planning to bring down Europe if you can. * * *Unbelievable. Reagan Cold War Myth Under the assumption that the Soviet Union could not then outspend the US government in a renewed arms race, Reagan strove to make the Cold War economically and rhetorically hot. Many analysts argue that the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union was due more to the re-emergence of separatist movements under glasnost, an inherent weakness in communist economic theory, and the depressed global price of crude oil, on which the Soviet economy during those years depended heavily. Furthermore, Reagan's much heralded military buildup that increased American military spending by 8% per annum in fact did not appear to have the planned effect of forcing the Soviets to mirror American growth: according to CIA estimates, Soviet military spending leveled off at a growth rate of 1.3% per annum in 1975 and remained at that level for a decade, although it more than tripled to approximately 4.3% in 1985 through 1987 (though spending on offensive strategic weapons continued to grow at 1.3% during that period), before returning to 1.3% in 1988. Perhaps more startling, Reagan's military build up, coupled with his fierce anti-soviet rhetoric, contributed to Soviet near-panic reaction to a routine NATO exercises in November 1983, ABLE ARCHER 83. Though the threat of nuclear war ended abruptly with the end of the exercise, this historically obscure incident illustrates the possible negative repercussions of Reagan's "standing tall" to a nuclear power. Some historians, among them Beth B. Fischer in her book The Reagan Reversal, pin ABLE ARCHER 83 as an incident which had a profound effect on President Reagan and his turn from a policy of Confrontation towards the Soviet Union to a policy of rapprochement. More Soviet propaganda to feed the gullibility of useful idiots in Leftism still in shock over the collapse of *their beloved Bolsheviks. Martin Walker: The Cold War pg 114 "In the 1960s and 1970s anti Vietnam war critics claimed that the CIA, which estimated that 12 to 16 percent of the Gross Domestic Product of the Soviet Union was devoted to its military, exagerated the scale of the Soviet buildup. After the Cold War it was learned that the CIA had grossly UNDERESTIMATED Soviet military spending which was as high as 25 percent of Soviet GDP during that time.." More Soviet propaganda to feed the gullibility of useful idiots in Leftism still in shock over the collapse of their beloved Bolsheviks. Martin Walker: The Cold War pg 114 "In the 1960s and 1970s anti Vietnam war critics claimed that the CIA, which estimated that 12 to 16 percent of the Gross Domestic Product of the Soviet Union was devoted to its military, exagerated the scale of the Soviet buildup. After the Cold War it was learned that the CIA had grossly UNDERESTIMATED Soviet military spending which was as high as 25 percent of Soviet GDP during that time.." |
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From Canada: "Europe Reaps What It Sowed"- barely 30% ofEuropeans work
On May 16, 5:39*pm, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself"
wrote: On May 16, 4:23*pm, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself" wrote: On May 16, 3:51*pm, wrote: freeisbest wrote * * *YOU rightards spent out the U.S. Treasury because YOU wanted soviet free-market-hating godless evil commonists absolutely destroyed... and the Soviet Union was absolutely destroyed. *YOU turned Russia into a desperate free-market sewer. * * *Now you're blubbering about it... and at the same time planning to bring down Europe if you can. * * *Unbelievable. Reagan Cold War Myth Under the assumption that the Soviet Union could not then outspend the US government in a renewed arms race, Reagan strove to make the Cold War economically and rhetorically hot. Many analysts argue that the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union was due more to the re-emergence of separatist movements under glasnost, an inherent weakness in communist economic theory, and the depressed global price of crude oil, on which the Soviet economy during those years depended heavily. Furthermore, Reagan's much heralded military buildup that increased American military spending by 8% per annum in fact did not appear to have the planned effect of forcing the Soviets to mirror American growth: according to CIA estimates, Soviet military spending leveled off at a growth rate of 1.3% per annum in 1975 and remained at that level for a decade, although it more than tripled to approximately 4.3% in 1985 through 1987 (though spending on offensive strategic weapons continued to grow at 1.3% during that period), before returning to 1.3% in 1988.. Perhaps more startling, Reagan's military build up, coupled with his fierce anti-soviet rhetoric, contributed to Soviet near-panic reaction to a routine NATO exercises in November 1983, ABLE ARCHER 83. Though the threat of nuclear war ended abruptly with the end of the exercise, this historically obscure incident illustrates the possible negative repercussions of Reagan's "standing tall" to a nuclear power. Some historians, among them Beth B. |
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From Canada: "Europe Reaps What It Sowed"- barely 30% ofEuropeans work
On May 16, 6:13*pm, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself"
wrote: On May 16, 5:39*pm, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself" wrote: On May 16, 4:23*pm, "O'Donovan, PJ, Himself" wrote: On May 16, 3:51*pm, wrote: freeisbest wrote * * *YOU rightards spent out the U.S. Treasury because YOU wanted soviet free-market-hating godless evil commonists absolutely destroyed... and the Soviet Union was absolutely destroyed. *YOU turned Russia into a desperate free-market sewer. * * *Now you're blubbering about it... and at the same time planning to bring down Europe if you can. * * *Unbelievable. Reagan Cold War Myth Under the assumption that the Soviet Union could not then outspend the US government in a renewed arms race, Reagan strove to make the Cold War economically and rhetorically hot. Many analysts argue that the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union was due more to the re-emergence of separatist movements under glasnost, an inherent weakness in communist economic theory, and the depressed global price of crude oil, on which the Soviet economy during those years depended heavily. Furthermore, Reagan's much heralded military buildup that increased American military spending by 8% per annum in fact did not appear to have the planned effect of forcing the Soviets to mirror American growth: according to CIA estimates, Soviet military spending leveled off at a growth rate of 1.3% per annum in 1975 and remained at that level for a decade, although it more than tripled to approximately 4.3% in 1985 through 1987 (though spending on offensive strategic weapons continued to grow at 1.3% during that period), before returning to 1.3% in 1988. Perhaps more startling, Reagan's military build up, coupled with his fierce anti-soviet rhetoric, contributed to Soviet near-panic reaction to a routine NATO exercises in November 1983, ABLE ARCHER 83. Though the threat of nuclear war ended abruptly with the end of the exercise, this historically obscure incident illustrates the possible negative repercussions of Reagan's "standing tall" to a nuclear power. Some historians, among them Beth B. Fischer in her book The Reagan Reversal, pin ABLE ARCHER 83 as an incident which had a profound effect on President Reagan and his turn from a policy of Confrontation towards the Soviet Union to a policy of rapprochement.. More Soviet propaganda to feed the gullibility of useful idiots in Leftism still in shock over the collapse of *their beloved Bolsheviks. Martin Walker: The Cold War pg 114 "In the 1960s and 1970s anti Vietnam war critics claimed that the CIA, which estimated that 12 to 16 percent of the Gross Domestic Product of the Soviet Union was devoted to its military, exagerated the scale of the Soviet buildup. After the Cold War it was learned that the CIA had grossly UNDERESTIMATED Soviet military spending which was as high as 25 percent of Soviet GDP during that time.." More Soviet propaganda to feed the gullibility of useful idiots in Leftism still in shock over the collapse of *their beloved Bolsheviks. Martin Walker: The Cold War pg 114 "In the 1960s and 1970s anti Vietnam war critics claimed that the CIA, which estimated that 12 to 16 percent of the Gross Domestic Product of the Soviet Union was devoted to its military, exagerated the scale of the Soviet buildup. After the Cold War it was learned that the CIA had grossly UNDERESTIMATED Soviet military spending which was as high as 25 percent of Soviet GDP during that time.." Another objective Canadian reader responds to the original article pasted on this Usenet thread which appeared in a Canadian newspaper recorded on the internet for all to read by Gotlife May 15 2010 11:25 AM i could not agree more with the avoidance of work being the root of Europe's problems and the work ethic of Americans being their saviour. One only has to live in both areas, as I have, to see this Another objective Canadian reader responds to the original article pasted on this Usenet thread which appeared in a Canadian newspaper recorded on the internet for all to read by Gotlife May 15 2010 11:25 AM i could not agree more with the avoidance of work being the root of Europe's problems and the work ethic of Americans being their saviour. One only has to live in both areas, as I have, to see this |
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