Did the lend lease cripple Britain after the war?

Answer 1

How? Considering the British only finally paid the bill on December 31, 2006. And the bill had been knocked down to ten cents on the dollar after the war, with a fifty year repayment plan scheduled, but the payments kept being "deferred" while Britain implemented Socialized Medicine for its people and the citizens of the US did without. So fifty years after the fact the British finally paid ten percent of the value, but the 1946 dollar was worth at least twenty times what the 2006 dollar was, and the bill was repaid in 2006 dollars. So that works out to Britain finally paying about one half of one percent of the value of what was given to them, mostly to finally make an end to the humiliating continual deferrals of payment. By 2006 the people of the US had become completely accustomed to getting thoroughly screwed by their own government so nobody complained over this rip-off of the US taxpayer. Hey, at least they finally paid SOMEthing, even if it was 18,000 days late and a few billion short. So, you're welcome. If anyone was hurt by it, it was the citizens of the US, who not only had to foot the bill for their own war effort but had to subsidize the British effort as well. All while Britain was clinging with a palsied grip to India and Palestine and its beloved Empire.