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The USSR collapsed for a plethora of reasons.  Picking one and elevating it to a Platonic The Cause is, IMHO, forecloses deep analysis and the insight such offers.

One cause was: military adventures are ruinously expensive.

One cause was: They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.

One cause was: Top/Down command structures mandating and enforcing rotten decisions.

and there were others.

Needless to say, these same causes are prevalent in the US, today.


A doo run-run-run, a doo run-run

by ATinNM on Wed Jul 16th, 2008 at 02:25:09 PM EST
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H'mmm.

One cause of Inept Communication is the communicator's inability to use proper English Grammar.

A doo run-run-run, a doo run-run

by ATinNM on Wed Jul 16th, 2008 at 02:27:47 PM EST
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Aaah thowght as 'ow yer wuz doin' alreet ;-)

(One of the few sentences in the English language that allow one to give a different regional accent inflection to each word)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Jul 16th, 2008 at 05:33:44 PM EST
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