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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln
Good points Odin, but should have read gains went to the wealthy. Mind you a major reduction in the inflation such as that did help ease the burden of the poor.
Kidicious What caused the deficit, spending or tax cuts?
There are many ways to measure the impact of the debt on the U.S. economy, and they come to the same conclusion: the impact is small. During the 12-year Reagan-Bush era, the debt climbed by about $3 trillion, or approximately half of 1992's GDP. If Government had not borrowed this money, private enterprise could have invested it and made us richer. But how much richer is a disappointment. The real rate of return on private investment is about 6 percent a year. Six percent times half of the GDP is 3 percent. So the U.S. would have been only 3 percent richer after 12 years of balanced budgets. Some argue that the drag on the economy might be even less than that, since the U.S. has almost always run a deficit since World War II, and comparisons to a completely balanced budget are not realistic. Also, much of the debt was financed with foreign capital at lower rates of return, which mitigates the corresponding loss of private investment. So an estimate of 3 percent is actually on the high end.
“The Communist Manifesto was correct…but…we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding…to democratic organizations…In my judgment…success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance…[rather]…than in…a catastrophic crash."Eduard Bernstein
Or do we?
Originally posted by Hueij
I don't know how much of it was pure rethorics but we were really scared. 500,000 people demonstrating against nuclear cruise missiles in the centre of The Hague in 1982 felt the same...
I never really under stood the hysteria surrunding these weapons.
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Sava, learn your History. Reagan's defense budget was mostly geared towards power projection ("600 ship navy") and training, training, and, God willing, more training. The Russians responding by buying more and more crap we'd have destroyed anyway. Nukes had piss-all to do with it.
considering the US built more nukes during the Reagan admin than all other previous admin's combined...
Originally posted by blackice
Kidicious What caused the deficit, spending or tax cuts?
Both are injections and both tend to cause inflation, although I think spending tends to be more of a cause.
Originally posted by blackice
There are many ways to measure the impact of the debt on the U.S. economy, and they come to the same conclusion: the impact is small. During the 12-year Reagan-Bush era, the debt climbed by about $3 trillion, or approximately half of 1992's GDP. If Government had not borrowed this money, private enterprise could have invested it and made us richer. But how much richer is a disappointment. The real rate of return on private investment is about 6 percent a year. Six percent times half of the GDP is 3 percent. So the U.S. would have been only 3 percent richer after 12 years of balanced budgets. Some argue that the drag on the economy might be even less than that, since the U.S. has almost always run a deficit since World War II, and comparisons to a completely balanced budget are not realistic. Also, much of the debt was financed with foreign capital at lower rates of return, which mitigates the corresponding loss of private investment. So an estimate of 3 percent is actually on the high end.
You can't say for sure that the deficits crowded out private investment. Reagan sure didn't plan it that way. According to theory deficits eventually cause inflation. My point is that the fed took care of inflation by raising rates even before Reagan took office. It was Chairman Paul Volker, and he slammed the brakes on the economy in 1979.
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the Nimitz is a good design. Why change what isn't broken.
Not that I have actually seen their engineering spaces.
But I have seen the spaces on the Enterprise. Nothing could be as bad as that.
but I can't blame them too much. They weren't familiar with large reactor design for naval ships. So what they did was take a reactor a little bit larger than a S5W reactor and put 8 of them in. This is based also off the fact conventionals had 8 boilers on them. And we also had 32 steam generators. But the reduncancy can come in handy sometimes. But it's at a huge cost of money.
Although sometimes when you think of it, 2 reactors doesn't seem like much. If one reactor scrams, the other has to carry the whole load. Which might not be easy during flight operations in which they have to go a certain speed to get enough wind speed underneath the wings of f-14's (the heaviest craft)
P.S.- Reagan does not realize he is alive. So I don't think it's a problem we named a ship after him.
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