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古风解读全球经济战争实相
远古的风 于 【文学城】的〖古风无痕〗博客 2012-04-28
在去年八月的一篇《世界经济的现状与中国的战略对策》博文中（第九章）：
http://blog.wenxuecity.com/myblog/46947/201108/27698.html
古风曾经说过：现在是中美（西方）争霸的“淮海战役”（动摇美元与欧元的金融霸权）阶段。如果大家看过有关淮海战役的历史资料和影视作品：
http://blog.wenxuecity.com/myblog/46947/201110/10928.html
就会知道当年的那场大决战对国共双方都是极其凶险的，不见到最后胜利的红旗，随时都有战败的可能。所以，现在很多人观察到了中国国民经济所面临的困难，可是他们有没有看到发生在美国（西方列强）比在中国出现的问题要严重得多的社会濒临崩溃的症兆呢（见下面附录的英文资料）？其实如果跟国共内战最后三年的历史做一下对比，大家马上就会发现现在美国（及西方列强）正在经历当年蒋介石国民政府所面临的困境，这不正预示美国（及西方列强们）将是这场大决战的失败者吗？
回到现今的世界中来，2008年金融危机爆发了，美国在多次逼迫中国单独签署如同1985年把日本拖入20多年停滞状态的《广场协议》（也就是人民币单独升值）无功而返后，而同时在自身的经济状况日益恶化的状况下，于2010年通过QE1和QE2把整个世界带入了最新一轮（第三次）的全球货币战争：
http://www.amazon.com/Currency-Wars-Making-Global-Portfolio/dp/1591844495
如果中国国力不强（如当年自命不凡的日本）或最高领导层都已被西方势力所收买（如现在网上的众多网友所言），那么中国早在2009年就会签署自残的《新广场协议》，出卖中国的国家和全民利益。可是中国政府不仅没有在美国的高压下退缩（当然人民币蜗牛般极其慢速的升值也是不得已的折中妥协之举），而且通过自身的建设在外贸大幅下滑的打击下站稳了脚跟，最后逼迫美国及其西方列强都走上了QEn的自宫之路。
大家可不要小看西方QEn（也就是不停地印钱）的后果：①中国成功地通过西方的QEn把原本加在中国一国身上的压力转嫁到全世界所有国家的身上，直接造成了中国面临的压力剧减；②同时，受到西方QEn危害最严重的新兴国家（如BRICS金砖五国）必然会更加坚定地团结起来，形成反西方列强的最广泛的统一战线，并会更进一步把独立于西方势力的BRICS金融体系建立起来；③由于中国的国力强大，在这个新的BRICS金融体系中，人民币自然会成为主角，为未来中国引领全球奠定了坚实的基础；④而西方列强们的QEn一方面造成各自的货币快速贬值（在全球丧失信誉），另一方面又急剧加重了国民的债务负担，西方列强们只好把利率维持在1%上下的超低位（利率不能回归到5%的正常水平，否则利息就付当不起了），这样西方列强们就走上了彻底熔毁的快车道（如果停止印钱，利率就会高企，国民经济立即崩溃；如果QE不止，超级通胀迟早会到来，国民经济就成了癌症晚期等死的病人）。因此，跟绝大多数网友的见解不同，古风认为中国的这一届胡温政府为中国的重新崛起建立了伟大的功勋！古风为中国最高领导层欢呼喝彩！
最近发出的“薄谷王事件”及其后来出现的独-运-轮支持温家宝总理的奇特现象，其实是美国使出的反间计。这一招马上就让中国的左右严重对立起来，几乎所有的爱国网友都加入到反中国政府的阵营中去了。说来好笑，如此简单的反间计在历史的长河里为何屡试不爽呢？普通民众由于智慧不足，受情绪的主导，干出愚蠢之事，是历史常态；如果高层领导核心也随波逐流，对手使出的反间计就成功了。好在现在的中国干部培训选拔制度相当成功，到目前为止，西方的这些三脚猫的手段一直都没能掀起什么大的风浪。请各位咒骂中国政府的爱国网友阅读在下的一篇拙作《“海归、海不归”的背后》（特别是补遗中提到的“灭吴七策”第五、六策）：
http://blog.wenxuecity.com/myblog/46947/201109/30712.html
然后再好好思索一下自己的言行到底是在帮助谁？
最后，古风建议大家换一个角度来思考这个问题。环顾整个世界，凡是被西方资本控制了的地方，我们几乎看不到任何西方主流媒体（实为西方资本的私物）抖漏什么关于当地政府的丑闻（比如日本311核灾及其后续恶果），也基本上读不到任何西方主流媒体对当地政府的严厉批判（比如香港回归前的和谐美好）。为何？哪有自己斗自己的事啊？！所以，只要西方主流媒体一天还在努力造谣中伤中国政府，中国的政府就肯定还在中国人手中！哈哈......所以，各位爱国的网友们就放心吧：中国政府不仅没有卖国，而且还一直在为中国的国家和人民的利益奋斗咧！古风给中国的最高领导层敬礼！
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古风于2012年4月28日成稿
25 Horrible Statistics About The U.S. Economy
by The American Dream, 27 April 2012
The human capacity for self-delusion truly is remarkable. Most people out there end up believing exactly what they want to believe even when the truth is staring them right in the face. Take the U.S. economy for example. Barack Obama wants to believe that his policies have worked and that the U.S. economy is improving. So that is what he is telling the American people. The mainstream media wants to believe that Barack Obama is a good president and that his policies make sense and so they are reporting that we are experiencing an economic recovery. A very large segment of the U.S. population still fully supports Barack Obama and they want to believe that the economy is getting better so they are buying the propaganda that the mainstream media is feeding them. But is the U.S. economy really improving? The truth is that it is not. The rate of employment among working age Americans is exactly where it was two years ago and household incomes have actually gone down while Obama has been president. Home ownership levels and home prices continue to decline. Meanwhile, food and gasoline continue to become even more expensive. The percentage of Americans that are dependent on the government is at an all-time record high and the U.S. national debt has risen by more than 5 trillion dollars under Obama. We simply have not seen the type of economic recovery that we have seen after every other economic recession since World War II.
The horrible statistics about the U.S. economy that you are about to read are not talked about much by the mainstream media. They would rather be "positive" and "upbeat" about the direction that things are headed.
But lying to the American people is not going to help them. If you are speeding in a car toward a 500 foot cliff, you don't need someone to cheer you on. Instead, you need someone to slam on the brakes.
The cold, hard reality of the matter is that the U.S. economy is in far worse shape than it was four or five years ago. We have never come close to recovering from the last recession and another one will be here soon.
The following are 25 horrible statistics about the U.S. economy that Barack Obama does not want you to know....
#1 The percentage of Americans that own homes is dropping rapidly. According to Gallup, the current level of homeownership in the United States is the lowest that Gallup has ever measured.
#2 Home prices in the U.S. continue to fall like a rock as well. They have declined for six months in a row and are now down a total of 35 percent from the peak of the housing bubble. The last time that home prices in the United States were this low was back in 2002.
#3 Last year, an astounding 53 percent of all U.S. college graduates under the age of 25 were either unemployed or underemployed.
#4 Back in 2007, about 10 percent of all unemployed Americans had been out of work for 52 weeks or longer. Today, that number is above 30 percent.
#5 When Barack Obama first became president, the number of "long-term unemployed workers" in the United States was 2.6 million. Today, it is 5.3 million.
#6 The average duration of unemployment in the United States is about three times as long as it was back in the year 2000.
#7 Despite what the mainstream media would have us to believe, the truth is that the percentage of working age Americans that are employed is not increasing. Back in March 2010, 58.5 percent of all working age Americans were employed. In March 2011, 58.5 percent of all working age Americans were employed. In March 2012, 58.5 percent of all working age Americans were employed. So how can Barack Obama and the mainstream media claim that the employment situation in the United States is getting better? The employment rate is still essentially exactly where it was when the last recession supposedly ended.
#8 Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs. Today, less than 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs.
#9 In 1962, 28 percent of all jobs in America were manufacturing jobs. In 2011, only 9 percent of all jobs in America were manufacturing jobs.
#10 In some areas of Detroit, Michigan you can buy a three bedroom home for just $500.
#11 According to one recent survey, approximately one-third of all Americans are not paying their bills on time at this point.
#12 Since Barack Obama entered the White House, the price of gasoline has risen by more than 100 percent.
#13 The student loan debt bubble continues to expand at a very frightening pace. Recently it was announced that total student loan debt in the United States has passed the one trillion dollar mark.
#14 Incredibly, one out of every four jobs in the United States pays $10 an hour or less at this point.
#15 Household incomes all over the United States continue to fall. After adjusting for inflation, median household income in America has declined by 7.8 percent since December 2007.
#16 Over the past several decades, government dependence has risen to unprecedented heights in the United States. The following is how I described the explosive growth of social welfare benefits in one recent article....
Back in 1960, social welfare benefits made up approximately 10 percent of all salaries and wages. In the year 2000, social welfare benefits made up approximately 21 percent of all salaries and wages. Today, social welfare benefits make up approximately 35 percent of all salaries and wages.
#17 In November 2008, 30.8 million Americans were on food stamps. Today, more than 46 million Americans are on food stamps.
#18 Right now, more than 25 percent of all American children are on food stamps.
#19 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, today 49 percent of all Americans live in a home that receives some form of benefits from the federal government.
#20 Over the next 75 years, Medicare is facing unfunded liabilities of more than 38 trillion dollars. That comes to $328,404 for each and every household in the United States.
#21 During the first quarter of 2012, U.S. public debt rose by 359.1 billion dollars. U.S. GDP only rose by 142.4 billion dollars.
#22 At this point, the U.S. national debt is rising by more than 2 million dollars every single minute.
#23 The U.S. national debt has risen by more than 5 trillion dollars since the day that Barack Obama first took office. In a little more than 3 years Obama has added more to the national debt than the first 41 presidents combined.
#24 The Federal Reserve bought up approximately 61 percent of all government debt issued by the U.S. Treasury Department during 2011.
#25 The Federal Reserve continues to systematically destroy the value of the U.S. dollar. Since 1970, the U.S. dollar has lost more than 83 percent of its value.
But the horrible economic statistics only tell part of the story.
In communities all over America there is a feeling that something fundamental has changed. Businesses that have been around for generations are shutting their doors and there is a lot of fear in the air. The following is a brief excerpt from a recent interview with Richard Yamarone, the senior economist at Bloomberg Brief....
You have to listen to what the small businesses are telling you and right now they are telling you, ‘Hey, I’m the head of a 3rd or 4th generation, 75 or 100 year old business, and I’ve got to shut the doors’ or ‘I’ve got to let people go. And if I’m hiring anybody back, it’s only on a temporary basis.’
Sometimes they do this through a hiring firm so that they can sidestep paying unemployment benefit insurance. So that’s what’s really going on at the grassroots level of the economy. Very, very, grossly different from what you’re seeing in some of these numbers coming out in earnings releases.”
All over the country, millions of hard working Americans are desperately looking for work. They have been told that "the recession is over", but they are still finding it incredibly difficult to find anyone that will hire them. The following example is from a recent CNN article....
Joann Cotton, a 54-year-old Columbus, Mississippi, resident, was one of those faces of poverty we met on the tour. Unemployed for three years, Joann has gone from making "$60,000 a year to less than $15,000 overnight." Her husband is disabled and dependent on medicines the couple can no longer afford. They rely on food stamps, which, Joann says, "is depressing as hell."
Receiving government aid, however, has not been as depressing as her job search. Joann says she has applied for at least 300 jobs. Even though she can barely afford gas, she drives to the interviews only to learn that the employers want to hire younger candidates at low wages.
The experiences have taken a toll: "I've aged 10 years in the three years that I've been looking for a job," Joann told us. "I want to get a job so I can just relax and exhale ... but I can't. After a while you just give up."
Meanwhile, Barack Obama and his family continue to live the high life at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer.
Even many Democrats are starting to get very upset about this. The following is from a recent article by Paul Bedard....
Blue collar Democratic voters, stuck taking depressing “staycations” because they can’t afford gas and hotels, are resentful of the first family’s 17 lavish vacations around the world and don’t want their tax dollars paying for the Obamas’ holidays, according to a new analysis of swing voters.
It simply is not appropriate for the Obamas to be spending millions upon millions upon millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars on luxury vacations when so many Americans are deeply suffering.
But Barack Obama does not want you to know about any of this stuff.
He just wants you to buy his empty propaganda one more time so that he can continue to occupy the White House for another four years.
