Call JG Wentworth! 877-Cash-now! Call now!eleven bravo wrote:
i have a structured settlement and i need cash now
but... bub but but what about FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY? what about TEH AMERICAN DREAM?!?!111!rdx-fx wrote:
Also helped make us a superpower.Dilbert_X wrote:
They don't need to be, as they weren't in the cold war. Kept you running around like crazy chickens though.rdx-fx wrote:
But, as a credible offensive military threat to the US.. Nope
World saw the US vs USSR as the major powers going toe to toe, and everyone lined up behind one of the two.
The show became the reality, because that's what people believed.
That's the magic in the US economy and politics, get enough people to believe the same half-truth, eventually it becomes the whole truth.
The only real 'hard currency' backing all of our political and economic confidence game, is our military.
Gold standard? Meh... We're on the lead & uranium standard
Cheap shitty food and vodka? Were they all students or something?nukchebi0 wrote:
Yeah, I don't know how Shahter was personally affected by the Russian economic collapse following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but while in Saint Petersburg, I heard many stories of families subsisting each day for a couple years solely on cabbage soup and similarly cheap and bland food. I imagine it was not a time he would be inclined to forget.
