JamesG | March 19, 2012 at 3:06 pm |
This signatories said that? “Give us money.”
Can you point to a source? Citation? Something signed by all 194 signatories with those words in it? Or are you making a joke? I can’t tell.
“Most folk, especially economics bods, have noticed that growth runs parallel with the availability of cheaper energy to an extent that is difficult to ignore.”
Yeah? I also observe that it’s generally morning when people feel most hung-over. Hangovers, caused by sunlight, obviously. You’re confusing ‘cheap fuel’ with ‘efficient economy’ based on an incomplete and slanted view of historical data.
Speaking of..
The Soviet Union was never one of the mightiest economies on the planet?
Which planet do you mean?
After the USA, it’s true there’s a huge gap, but it was an economy covering more land than any other single economic entity, and second in population, second in GDP, it made it into space and onto the moon, it fielded more nukes and more troops than anyone else. Name the five other candidates you suggest were mightier at the peak of the Soviet Union’s performance, and say why.
It’s true it wasn’t the _best_ economy, the wisest, the most durable, but denying the soviets were mighty once belittles the success of the West immensely. It makes what we did smaller. It sounds Unamerican.