古風無痕
世界的政經大勢；人生的歡喜怒罵；精神的上下求索。
古風解讀全球經濟戰爭實相
遠古的風 於 【文學城】的〖古風無痕〗博客 2012-04-28
在去年八月的一篇《世界經濟的現狀與中國的戰略對策》博文中（第九章）：
http://blog.wenxuecity.com/myblog/46947/201108/27698.html
古風曾經說過：現在是中美（西方）爭霸的“淮海戰役”（動搖美元與歐元的金融霸權）階段。如果大家看過有關淮海戰役的曆史資料和影視作品：
http://blog.wenxuecity.com/myblog/46947/201110/10928.html
就會知道當年的那場大決戰對國共雙方都是極其凶險的，不見到最後勝利的紅旗，隨時都有戰敗的可能。所以，現在很多人觀察到了中國國民經濟所麵臨的困難，可是他們有沒有看到發生在美國（西方列強）比在中國出現的問題要嚴重得多的社會瀕臨崩潰的症兆呢（見下麵附錄的英文資料）？其實如果跟國共內戰最後三年的曆史做一下對比，大家馬上就會發現現在美國（及西方列強）正在經曆當年蔣介石國民政府所麵臨的困境，這不正預示美國（及西方列強們）將是這場大決戰的失敗者嗎？
回到現今的世界中來，2008年金融危機爆發了，美國在多次逼迫中國單獨簽署如同1985年把日本拖入20多年停滯狀態的《廣場協議》（也就是人民幣單獨升值）無功而返後，而同時在自身的經濟狀況日益惡化的狀況下，於2010年通過QE1和QE2把整個世界帶入了最新一輪（第三次）的全球貨幣戰爭：
http://www.amazon.com/Currency-Wars-Making-Global-Portfolio/dp/1591844495
如果中國國力不強（如當年自命不凡的日本）或最高領導層都已被西方勢力所收買（如現在網上的眾多網友所言），那麽中國早在2009年就會簽署自殘的《新廣場協議》，出賣中國的國家和全民利益。可是中國政府不僅沒有在美國的高壓下退縮（當然人民幣蝸牛般極其慢速的升值也是不得已的折中妥協之舉），而且通過自身的建設在外貿大幅下滑的打擊下站穩了腳跟，最後逼迫美國及其西方列強都走上了QEn的自宮之路。
大家可不要小看西方QEn（也就是不停地印錢）的後果：①中國成功地通過西方的QEn把原本加在中國一國身上的壓力轉嫁到全世界所有國家的身上，直接造成了中國麵臨的壓力劇減；②同時，受到西方QEn危害最嚴重的新興國家（如BRICS金磚五國）必然會更加堅定地團結起來，形成反西方列強的最廣泛的統一戰線，並會更進一步把獨立於西方勢力的BRICS金融體係建立起來；③由於中國的國力強大，在這個新的BRICS金融體係中，人民幣自然會成為主角，為未來中國引領全球奠定了堅實的基礎；④而西方列強們的QEn一方麵造成各自的貨幣快速貶值（在全球喪失信譽），另一方麵又急劇加重了國民的債務負擔，西方列強們隻好把利率維持在1%上下的超低位（利率不能回歸到5%的正常水平，否則利息就付當不起了），這樣西方列強們就走上了徹底熔毀的快車道（如果停止印錢，利率就會高企，國民經濟立即崩潰；如果QE不止，超級通脹遲早會到來，國民經濟就成了癌症晚期等死的病人）。因此，跟絕大多數網友的見解不同，古風認為中國的這一屆胡溫政府為中國的重新崛起建立了偉大的功勳！古風為中國最高領導層歡呼喝彩！
最近發出的“薄穀王事件”及其後來出現的獨-運-輪支持溫家寶總理的奇特現象，其實是美國使出的反間計。這一招馬上就讓中國的左右嚴重對立起來，幾乎所有的愛國網友都加入到反中國政府的陣營中去了。說來好笑，如此簡單的反間計在曆史的長河裏為何屢試不爽呢？普通民眾由於智慧不足，受情緒的主導，幹出愚蠢之事，是曆史常態；如果高層領導核心也隨波逐流，對手使出的反間計就成功了。好在現在的中國幹部培訓選拔製度相當成功，到目前為止，西方的這些三腳貓的手段一直都沒能掀起什麽大的風浪。請各位咒罵中國政府的愛國網友閱讀在下的一篇拙作《“海歸、海不歸”的背後》（特別是補遺中提到的“滅吳七策”第五、六策）：
http://blog.wenxuecity.com/myblog/46947/201109/30712.html
然後再好好思索一下自己的言行到底是在幫助誰？
最後，古風建議大家換一個角度來思考這個問題。環顧整個世界，凡是被西方資本控製了的地方，我們幾乎看不到任何西方主流媒體（實為西方資本的私物）抖漏什麽關於當地政府的醜聞（比如日本311核災及其後續惡果），也基本上讀不到任何西方主流媒體對當地政府的嚴厲批判（比如香港回歸前的和諧美好）。為何？哪有自己鬥自己的事啊？！所以，隻要西方主流媒體一天還在努力造謠中傷中國政府，中國的政府就肯定還在中國人手中！哈哈......所以，各位愛國的網友們就放心吧：中國政府不僅沒有賣國，而且還一直在為中國的國家和人民的利益奮鬥咧！古風給中國的最高領導層敬禮！
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古風於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.
