Chapter 917: Responding to the Crisis and Cutting Military Spending

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White clouds float in the blue sky, and in the center of the city with a modern building, opposite a towering monument, is a three-story building with a white sè. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info{{}}

Autumn was crisp, and it was a good weather, but the people in a conference room on the second floor had a calm face.

There is an old saying, called lifting a stone and shooting oneself in the foot, although these people, although they have not heard this sentence, but they feel a similar result, this incident, they initiated, but now, they have tasted the consequences.

"At the beginning, I proposed that our depreciation plan must be steadily lowered, but now, our depreciation has not made our domestic gains anything, but the economy has suffered a heavy blow!" Bush changed his composure and composure and took the lead in expressing his dissatisfaction.

James blushed and said to Bush: "Yes, we have always planned to steadily reduce the value of the dollar, so that the dollar will depreciate by about 20 percent within two years, we have formulated a careful plan, prepared more than 50 billion US dollars of funds, which is already very sufficient, but we did not expect that we have been speculated by hundreds of billions of dollars of international travel funds, and our funds, and tens of billions of dollars, have been invested in the depreciation plan, so when our dollar depreciates too quickly, We don't have enough money to fight anymore. {{}}”

Hundreds of billions of dollars in international travel capital, don't you know that when the RI dollar appreciates, it will definitely attract a large number of investors? Bush did not press these mistakes again, originally, he believed in James very much. But now, things have confirmed. James thinks about things too simply.

"And we'll add money later. The appropriation agreed by the National Assembly was just that the trend of the appreciation of the RI dollar was unstoppable at that time, and we did our best. James said.

"We invested a lot of money, and the end result was that we had inflation in our country and the currency depreciated too quickly. Now ordinary people can't even afford to eat? Bush said.

"Forget it, what we're talking about now is not who to blame, but how to get through this crisis." President Ronald Reagan said.

This is a real economic crisis. If this crisis is not handled well, the US economy will be affected the most, and these leaders will probably be overthrown by the angry people and end up in the same fate as Carter at the beginning.

Reagan knew that it was actually the idea of those domestic corporate consortia to devalue the dollar, who kept lobbying for the fact that exports were not competitive and that the dollar was overvalued. Gotta squeeze out the foam. But now, the depreciation is unfavorable, and there are problems in the domestic economy, and they will question the decision-making of zhèngfu even more, so although James is responsible for the specific actions, James should not be fully responsible.

The investigation into the incident is also ongoing, but it is necessary to find out exactly where the funds are being maliciously speculated. But it's very difficult.

Hearing President Reagan's words, Bush did not speak, the current situation, for the United States, is nothing, the United States will carry over, but, in this process, the US economy, will definitely suffer a huge impact, now what can be done? We must cut our spending and cut the military's spending.

Sure enough, the secretary of state said: "Now, if we want to get through this crisis, we have to cut all kinds of spending, and the huge deficit in our fiscal expenditure has a lot to do with the excessive military spending, and we have to cut some of the funds for the development of weapons, and we have to cut the investment in the military." For example, our Star Wars program has invested too much money, but the results are not significant. ”

"You're killing our army!" Weinberg immediately retorted: "Now, we are at a critical moment in the Cold War with the Soviet Union, our underwater advantage has disappeared, our investment in space is not enough, if we reduce our investment, we will not have any advantage in front of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union now has thousands of nuclear warheads, which are aimed at us, if we show a decline in any aspect, it will inflate the Soviet Union's self-confidence, and we may be at a disadvantage, the Soviet Union's current aircraft carrier, has already started the second one, they are in all aspects, Catch up with us. ”

Weinberg is alarmist, now, what spending to cut, and not to cut military spending! This is about the national security of the United States!

But is it okay to cut back on other areas? Now that the domestic economy has deteriorated, if we cut the investment in public utilities such as medical care, insurance, sanitation, and sports, I am afraid that the dissatisfaction of the American people will be even more intensified!

Reagan was well aware of the stakes. {{}}

"Now, I'm not so nervous." Secretary of State George continued: "The last time our nuclear submarines collided, it was just an accident, and since Gorbachev came to power, the Soviet Union has lost Brelinev's aggressiveness, and Gorbachev is like a harmless little white rabbit, just thinking about being able to eat grass." ”

George's words brought some smiles on everyone's faces. In recent years, the leaders of the Soviet Union have changed too quickly, and they do not know how the "young" Gorbachev came to power, but this person, unlike the previous leaders, is not keen on force, he is keen on agriculture, and his greatest wish is probably to feed the Soviets without spending huge amounts of foreign exchange to import grain.

Such a moderate leader of the Red Sè Empire would be of great benefit to the United States.

As the two most influential countries in the world, although the two sides have been in a confrontation and tension, dialogue between the two sides is inevitable, and after negotiations, they will hold a meeting of the top leaders of the two sides at the end of this month. {{}}

The topic of this meeting is naturally the issue that both sides are most concerned about.

While Weinberg repeatedly emphasized the Soviet Union's military threat and its own technological superiority, George pointed out that in recent years, as long as Gorbachev is in power, as long as there are no major world changes, the Soviet Union will not make major military moves.

The foreign trade deficit of the United States has gradually brought about a fiscal deficit, but one of the main reasons for the fiscal deficit is that military spending is too high!

In order to lead the commanding heights of the entire military equipment, the military has been investing huge sums of money in scientific research, there are already fighters such as F-15 and F-16, and they are also developing stealth aircraft to seize the commanding heights of the future, it is not enough to have F-117, there are also B-2 bombers, and F-22 that surpasses the advanced capabilities of all fighters.

Coupled with the deployment of US troops around the world, the annual cost of soldiers is also huge.

If you want to get rid of your own economic problems, then cutting military spending is a good way, but the military will never agree to this, so Weinberg was also strongly in favor of the depreciation of the dollar.

Now, if we want to get rid of the economic decline and cut expenditures, we have to make a choice, and in the process of reducing expenditures, military spending will definitely be cut.

"Military spending can be cut, for example, we can reach an agreement with the Soviet Union to reduce our medium-range missiles." At this time, Bush said suddenly.

Bush's words made Reagan's eyes light up, and this is a good way!

In the arsenals of nuclear weapons of the United States and the Soviet Union, there are a large number of nuclear weapons, and as far as ballistic missiles are concerned, there are intercontinental ballistic missiles, intermediate-range ballistic missiles, and short-range ballistic missiles. Thousands of nuclear warheads were aimed at each other, but they never fired.

If you want to deter the other side, you can have ICBMs. The intercontinental missiles on the US mainland are already enough to cover the Soviet Union, so their medium-range missiles are of little use, and simply comparing the number of nuclear warheads on both sides is meaningless.

And these missiles need to be maintained and maintained, and they need to consume a lot of military expenditure, so the destruction of these medium-range ballistic missiles will not have an impact on nuclear deterrence, and it can also reduce expenses and contribute to world peace, which is a very good choice!

"If we only cut our Pershing-2 missiles, our military can accept it," Weinberg said. But our other projects, which are related to the development of our defense forces and to the superiority of the coming decades, must not be curtailed. ”

The medium-range missiles of the United States are all deployed in Western Europe, and the current main force is the Pershing-2 missile, which is mainly used to strike hard targets such as command posts and transportation hubs in the Warsaw Pact countries. Using a solid rocket engine, the shè range is 1800 meters, and due to the use of two sets of inertial guidance and radar terrain matching terminal guidance, the hit degree is about 30 meters, which is already very high.

However, since the United States is now focusing on cruise missiles, its reliance on this medium-range ballistic missile has been greatly reduced, so the military fully agrees with the reduction of this missile.

"At our talks at the end of the month, we can propose to the Soviet Union that both sides jointly destroy all intermediate-range missiles." Bush said.

Without intermediate-range ballistic missiles, the United States still has cruise missiles, but for the Soviet Union, it has completely lost the striking capability of medium-range ballistic missiles, and this move has not only solved a domestic problem, but also solved a hidden danger in the United States, and Bush put forward a very good proposal.

"Even so, I'm afraid we're facing a lack of funding, our Star Wars program, can we suspend certain projects?" James said. The Star Wars program, the United States invested a lot of money, however, the results were not very much.

Reagan's eyes didn't look at Weinberg, and he said to the others, "I agree to cut back on some of the high-cost and low-achieving projects in the Star Wars program." (To be continued.) If you like this work,. )