1. Lack of Large Military
Consumer Goods Burden
This paragraph is talking about the lack of This paragraph is about military
quality and supply of consumer goods. They expenditures. The government policy
started a system called social contract to during the Cold War era was to channel
better the quality and supply of these superior management and the best
goods, but this system failed. The rewards for
the successes never came about, because the scientist and engineers.
system failed before rewards could be thought
of.

2. Examples
• Lack of Consumer Goods
• Soviet consumer goods, foods, clothing and shoes, housing, and such heavy-
industry products as appliances and fuels that are used by individual consumers
• Large Military Burden
• The large growth of the military has become a financial problem/ burden.

3. Outside opinions
• Lack of Consumer Goods
• The nation was among the world's three top manufacturers of a large number of basic and
heavy industrial products, but as a result of historical factors that made emphasis on
consumer industries, it tended to lag behind in the output of light industrial production and
consumer durables. One result of this was that consumer demand was only partially satisfied.
• Large Military Burden
• Ratios of the military to the economic variables produce relative indicators which give a
economic perspective to the military measures.