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- From: an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.theory,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Minor Historical Nitpick (Was Re: National debt is not bad)
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 00:34:47 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) says:
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- ><In article <1jmdbaINNqbj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne) writes:
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- ><In a previous article, egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) says:
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- ><>Defense expenditures during peace didn't become a Very Big Thing for
- ><>the US until the Cold War. The US has historically had a very small
- ><>military establishment prior to 1939 or so, and has depended more on
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- >< Historically, the U.S. has been a second-rate agrarian colony too.
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- > Uh, not since the 18th century have we been a colony.
- > And we've not been primarily agrarian since, oh,
- > the late 19th century.
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- > A "second-rate agrarian colony" would have been hard
- > pressed to win the Spanish-American war, for example.
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- Our military spending is in direct proportion to our
- becoming a world power. Sorry the analogy was too much to
- handle. I'll tone it down.
- >
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