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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.

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.

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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