America's war with America?
I. United States Tent
Rumor has it that the United States is preparing for a new war. The war is supposed to be necessary for America to get out of the economic impasse in which it has been living since 2008, or more precisely, from 2006-2007, when the mortgage crisis began. (The problems of Barack Obama are the old problems of Bush Junior). The US government says that the financial crisis ended in 2009, but is it not cunning?
US GDP in 2009 fell by 3,5% compared to the previous year, and in 2010 it exceeded GDP 2009 by 1,7%. In 2011, compared to 2010, the gross domestic product growth in the USA was already 3,0%. And unemployment has declined: from record 10,2% in 2009 to 8,3% at the beginning of 2012. That is, if previously every tenth American was out of work, now every eighth or ninth either lives on welfare, or is poor at all. Progress, of course, but ...
Give the floor to Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve:
“The unemployment rate in February coincided with expectations and did not change against the previous month - 8,3%. At the same time, the February data consolidated the achievements of the Obama administration, because in October 2011, 9% of Americans were unemployed.
At the same time, pre-crisis levels remain an unattainable goal. Since the beginning of the financial crisis, 8,8 million Americans have lost their jobs. Since then, only 3,5 million citizens have managed to find it ”("Vesti").
Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, also does not see signs of a “recovery” in the US economy: “... Of course, no one speaks of a new recession anymore, but based on the development of the labor market, a conclusion cannot be drawn about the prospect of strong economic growth. In 2012, we expect it to be at just a little over 2%. ... according to our forecasts, unemployment will decline in the 2012 year only by a bit - to 8,2%. The process of recovery is not yet completed, especially in the real estate market ”(RBC).
Currently, about 11 million mortgage borrowers in the US are bank debtors. The American government is trying to help its citizens, and at the same time the banks, but this turns out to be bad.
“The US authorities have reached agreements with five banks - Ally Financial, Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo to write off billions of dollars in mortgage loans to 20. It is reported by The Wall Street Journal. In exchange for write-offs, prosecutors will close cases involving banks on the illegal alienation of housing.
Under the terms of the agreement, finorganizatsii will write off part of the loans and refinance loans of the so-called mortgage “underwater mortgage”. This term refers to borrowers whose own assets are much less liabilities.
Analysts believe that the agreement will not help restore the US real estate market. Agreements will also not bring benefits to banks, since they have already reserved the necessary funds for possible losses on "bad" mortgage loans.
5 more billions of dollars will be spent on individual payments to borrowers affected by the allegedly illegal actions of banks that deprived debtors of the right to buy housing. About 750, thousands of Americans will receive thousands of dollars in 1,5-2 ”("Lenta.ru").
The sum of a couple of thousand dollars except as a straw for a drowning man can not be called. By the way, when the agreement was signed, its amount was not 20, but even 25 billion dollars. However, this does not change matters.
“Everything would be great, but the agreement will have side effects that will manifest in the foreseeable future. In 2010-2011, banks significantly slowed down the housing loss process, waiting for a settlement with the government. Now nothing prevents them from launching this process at full capacity. Housing prices last year continued to fall, dropping by almost a third compared with the peak in 2006, hence the volume of bad mortgage loans has only increased.
As a result, a million borrowers will improve their financial situation and remain with housing, but, in all likelihood, they will lose much more of their property. The blow to the economy will be extremely strong. Due to the fact that debtors who were under threat of eviction were living in their homes in the last few months in the position of squatters and could be wasting on some goals outside the mortgage, the amount of expenses of American households will inevitably decrease ”(Lenta.ru, D. Migunov).
The fact is that the mortgage in the United States turned out to be a financial pyramid, stupidly built on the rise of the cost of housing:
“Recall that the global financial crisis began in the autumn of 2007, with the collapse of US mortgage bonds. Americans did not pay mortgage loans, but re-mortgaged their homes considering the growth in their market value. That is, the difference between the value of the house now and the month before, and the balance was positive, was due to the debt. Once one of the Americans, the media in the United States even called his name, could not pay the mortgage and was forced to sell his house, which led to a small but falling in the real estate market. With the cessation of the progressive rise in prices, it turned out that almost all Americans are not able to pay for a mortgage with real money, which has fallen off the real estate market. The crisis would have ended by simply throwing several million people onto the street, but on the basis of mortgage bonds, a pyramid of financial derivatives, that is, debt securities secured by future mortgage payments, was built. Therefore, not only homeowners and creditor banks were in the red, but all those who used these securities in their financial transactions. The list of operations was extensive - loan collateral, investment of money for investment purposes, settlements between banks. It turned out that all these operations are impossible, since behind them there is a simple paper that is not provided with anything ”("Peace", D, Davydov).
Sales of homes in the US are falling:
“This is an American dream: your house and a piece of land. Which leads to a sharp increase in the cost of construction, furniture, cars (public transport to the house does not go), gasoline, etc. In addition, this is a sharp increase in demand for the most "heavy" part of lending - mortgage lending. Because they don’t buy houses for cash in the USA - almost only on credit. And this is a huge risk, because in case of problems with work / income, an American loses not just a new TV (you can watch the old one), but a roof over your head for the whole family, the whole way of life and all the money paid for the house (up to a quarter monthly income for many years).
The high level of sales of single-family houses is the best indicator of the health of the economy. By the way, it was from this sector that the global economic crisis of the end of the zero years began. From the peak in 2006, home sales fell fourfold. And in 2011-m fell another quarter. With strong fluctuations by month, sales show a consistently low level and no upward trends ”(source: Gazeta.ru, A. Mikhailov).
One of the manifestations of the mortgage crisis and rising unemployment in the United States have become tent camps. Currently, thousands of Americans live in tents across the country.
“A dark-haired woman in a black cotton dress is a real estate agent selling mobile mobile homes. Rather, a former agent. Since January, 2008, a woman is forced to live in a purple tent, broken under an elm.
“The market in which I worked simply collapsed,” she says. - Banks stopped giving money to my customers.
Previously, Imelda sold at least six houses in a month. And then the mortgage crisis in the United States began to grow into a financial one. Her first clients lost their homes. And then she herself discovered that she was not able to pay the bills. Imelda’s house was auctioned off and she was on the street.
Friends bought her a tent and brought her to this tent city in Ontario in the suburbs of Los Angeles ”(source: Focus.ua).
Above the tent camp, by the way, the American flag flies “proudly” - an inverted one, symbolizing a “deep crisis”.
The ship of the American Dream crashed against the cliffs of market reality:
“It is hot and dusty in the camp, and there are much more dirty tents than clean ones. Many campers sit on drugs, and good nights are rare here.
Not far from Imelda’s tent there is a railroad, along which containers with trains move along. They are traveling from the cargo port to Long Beach. Some containers are green, they contain China Shipping. Cheap Chinese imports have long been prevalent in the US market, creating a huge trade deficit (the excess of imports over exports). This, in turn, led to an increase in US foreign debt and weakened the dollar.
“From our tent, we see American debt increasing even more with each train passing by,” said Ronda Farnsworth, a thirty-year-old, corpulent resident of the town, whose tent stands apart from the others ”(Focus.ua).
“More recently, David worked in North Carolina as a driver. At work, he broke his right leg. Since there was no insurance, the treatment resulted in him at $ 40000, turning into a bankrupt and leaving homeless. The remaining money was enough to buy a bus ticket to Ontario, the place in which he grew up.
“My American dream has fallen apart,” says David. “I spent two nights on the bus crying like a child” (same source).
What do they live here for? Some camp residents - like other camps - receive 162 dollars per month (“grocery cards”). Someone saved the savings. Someone manages to find a job, although there are lines of dozens of people waiting for 8 dollars per hour. What job? Any. Wash offices, toilets, carry weights.
Here is another tent camp in New Jersey:
“At first glance, this is reminiscent of a summer tourist camp. Tents on the edge and food on a fire. The difference is that people settled in this forest live in such conditions all year round and this is their last and only refuge. History the registrations are the same for everyone here - first the person loses his job and then the apartment, because there is nothing to pay for it. Pole Nina lost both. Ten years ago, she came to New York on the advice of a friend to work as a nanny in a family with young children. She lived there too. Before the 2008 crisis, everything was great.
“I had a good job, a lot of money. I sent them to Poland one daughter, the other, the third, also for the maintenance of his house. And then the work was gone and the problems started, ”says Nina.
In the current American home of Nina, a small kitchen, a bed, and even something resembling a chest of drawers fit around eight square meters. You can live, she says, except that the pipe from the middle of the stove-burzhuyki completely rusted and broke ... "(Channel One, B. Koltsov).
Material from "BBC":
“The leader of Panorama, Hilary Anderson ... discovers that, for many, tent camps are the last refuge in their lives.
30 tents, hidden in a forest belt along the side of an expressway in the suburb of Ann Arba, Michigan, have become a permanent home for people who have lost their jobs and those who are unable to pay rent due to low incomes.
The living conditions are unsanitary, there are no toilets, electricity is only in one common use tent, where camp residents gather around the stove for heating in the midst of winter.
The roofs of the tents sag under the weight of ice and snow, and rain often drips on sleeping faces.
Such tent settlements have increased in the 55 environs of American major cities, they demonstrate the harsh reality of the crisis of American beggars.
According to the census, 47 of millions of Americans nowadays live below the poverty line due to a steady increase in unemployment over the past 50 years ”(source of translation).
There are a total of about 12 people living in 5000 large tent camps in the USA. 13 million unemployed, of whom three million lost their jobs under Obama.
The place of residence of the American unemployed often serve as cars.
“An article from the German“ Der Spiegel ”describes a typical case of an American couple, completely crushed by what happened:
“Chanel Sabedra was on the street. She and her husband have been sleeping in the car for almost three weeks. “We never thought that this could happen to us, never,” says Sabedra and begins to cry. “I am not a child, I can take care of myself one way or another, the same goes for my husband, but (my children) are too small to go through these trials.” She has three children: nine, five and three years old.
“We had a house south of here in San Bernardino,” says Chanel. Her husband lost his job at building prefabricated houses in July 2009. Utility shut off gas. “We were hot on the barbecue to bathe the kids,” she says. Being unable to continue to pay the rent, the Sabedra family was evicted from their home in August ”(source: Nologo.su).
By the way, for spending the night in a car in many American states (for example, in California) it is necessary to pay a fine.
“Vinis, California, is just one of the places where people are arrested for living in vehicles. In the past, Vinis was popular among those who live in campers. A wave of arrests among camp residents forced the remaining at liberty to clean up their mobile homes. The following is an excerpt from an article published on the Dayly Kos website:
“They took Eric when he changed the battery in the car. Accused that he slept in his car. A few days later they went to 3 Street and took his camper, because its owner was in prison, and therefore the car did not move for 72 hours. On Saturday, they combed 7 Street and took Bear and his mobile home. They also towed camper Elizabeth, but I don’t know if they took her herself, although no one has seen her since. The police moved onto 6 Street and took a white van there, which is always parked there. Every day they take from one to four campers. Soon no one will be left. ”
If you have a black band, then very soon the authorities will try to take away from you everything that is left. The United States can be a very cruel place if you are unlucky in life ”(Nologo.su).
Many unemployed and homeless people in the United States compare what is happening with America today with the times of the Great Depression, and tent camps are already called “guvervilles.”
Already Zbigniew Brzezinski predicts a decline for America: “... if America continues to slide on an inclined plane in domestic politics and leads a short-sighted foreign policy, then its decline will definitely happen” (“Komsomolskaya Pravda”, T. Bezrukova).
Another quote from Mr. Brzezinski:
“Yes, we are a democracy trying to survive in a difficult world, implementing a reasonable foreign policy. But this is possible under the condition that the people inhabiting our country are also reasonable and sane. Otherwise we will not be able to carry out the tasks before us.
I have to admit, the American people are extremely ignorant. He has absolutely no idea about the outside world. There is no such subject in our public schools: world history. We teach children a very patriotic American story. But in reality it is an embellished “Christmas” story, far from the complex and contradictory realities of the past. Take, for example, the relationship with the indigenous people of America - the Indians. No matter how offensive it is, it must be admitted that the first ethnic cleansing "in the name of the Law" took place on American soil! Thousands of Indians were expelled from their lands under President Jackson ... And take geography. We do not teach it! Approximately 52% of current applicants of American colleges can not show on the map where New York is located. 70% enrolling in higher education in 2003-2010-s could not find Iraq - the country with which we fought! Somehow, future students were asked to identify a certain large area, shaded on the map in blue. So, 30% of them could not determine that it was the Pacific Ocean ... You smile. But this is not at all funny. Hence the incredibly lightweight attitude of a large number of Americans to foreign policy issues. And how is this international problem presented in public discussions? Often extremely relieved, only in black and white, with the prevailing demagogy ... "(“Komsomolskaya Pravda”, T. Bezrukova).
So, according to Brzezinski, a well-known patriot and propagandist of America, the US domestic policy is currently “slipping on an inclined plane”, and he has doubts about the soundness of foreign policy, apparently because Americans do not know either history or geography, but to think learn from the speeches of demagogues who cannot find the Pacific Ocean or Iraq on maps.
There is no need to go far for examples: “We must help democratize Afghanistan, Iraq and other African countries.” This is what George W. Bush said.
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So, the crisis in the US is expanding and deepening, and he has no end in sight. Against its background, the number of “hate groups” and extremist anti-government groups in America is growing rapidly. The peak of growth was in 2011 year.
“The 2011 figures for the year represent a rise for the eleventh year in a row and the highest since the Center began to track the hate groups in 1980. In 2000, only 602 of such groups existed in the country, whereas in 2011, the number of such groups reached 1018.
Perhaps even more disturbing than the small but steady growth of such groups over the past few years has been the parabolic growth of anti-government “patriotic” militia groups. The number of such groups that are separated from hate groups from 2010 to 2011 increased by 55 per year - from 824 to 1274-x. In 2008, there were only 149 of such groups, and already in 2009, their number increased to 512.
The center and other analysts attribute this growth to the increasingly widespread dissatisfaction with the role of the government as well as anger towards Obama "(source: The Huffington Post, Brian Levine - Mixednews).
17 September 2011 on the political scene was the movement "Capture Wall Street". The main demands of the protesters are connected with the smoothing of economic inequality in the United States: an increase in taxes on the richest people in America; reducing unemployment. Demonstrators also protest against the activities of various financial institutions, calling trading speculators "financial terrorists."
18 March 2012 Movement celebrated its birthday:
The Occupy Wall Street movement celebrated half a year since its foundation, reports Agence France-Presse. The protest ended with clashes with the police, several dozen people were detained.
First, the protesters marched on Wall Street. According to Reuters, 15 people were detained during the march, and three police officers were injured.
Then, in the evening of March 17, around 600 traffic participants went to Zukkotti Park. They sang and beat the drums. The protesters had plans to set up a tent camp, but the police prevented them. Detentions began around midnight. During 20 minutes, the police cleared the park of movement activists ”("Lenta.ru").
“The guards began arresting the protesters after some of them tried to set up a campground in order to settle for a long time in the park. When 100 police officers began to arrest the perpetrators, the demonstrators sat on the ground and refused to leave. The police had to put on plastic handcuffs for several dozen people and drag them into police buses. Zukotti Park was cleared of demonstrators after 20 minutes after the start of a police operation ”(RIA News").
An offshoot of Occupy Wall Street is the Occupy San Francisco movement. 3 April RIA News" reported that more of his 80 participants who refused to leave the captured building were arrested. The two-story building belongs to the Catholic Diocese, and once there was a music school. The protesters insisted that the building be used as an educational or medical center. According to the Catholic Diocese, the building was empty for about a year and a half.
“Members of the Capture San Francisco movement barricaded themselves in the building on the evening of April 1 and, apparently, intended to stay there for a long time. There were no casualties during the arrests ”("Lenta.ru").
Earlier, in mid-February, 2012, the Russian Foreign Ministry noted that the US authorities are showing unreasonable cruelty towards activists of the movement. Russian Foreign Minister Ombudsman for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law Konstantin Dolgov said: “The reaction of the American authorities is obvious elements of undue harshness and disproportionate use of force. According to estimates of human rights activists, since the fall of 2011, when the campaign “Capture Wall Street” began, more than 6 thousand people have been detained in US 110 cities ”. Dolgov added that “such actions cause particular bewilderment against the background of the constant accentuation by the American side of the need to respect human rights by other states, including the right to freedom of expression, processions and manifestations” (RIA News").
By the way, the actions of "Capture Wall Street" in New York last year cost the budget of this city 17 million dollars. “According to Raymond Kelly, the head of the megalopolis police, the authorities had to spend such money on overtime work for the police officers who took part in providing security during the actions of the“ invaders ”. He noted that often demonstrations were unpredictable and demanded increased attention from law enforcement agencies. “You never know what to expect from unplanned events,” Raymond Kelly stressed."Vesti").
Against the backdrop of protests and the growing number of "hate groups" - that is, clearly distinguishable internal state enemy, whose ranks are dangerously multiplying, threatening democracy ... with democracy - Barack Obama 16 March signed a decree on "martial law for peacetime." Note: for a peaceful time.
"This Executive Decree was published on the website of the US government WhiteHouse.gov 16 March 2012, entitled "Preparing Resources for National Defense".
In essence, this is a martial law plan for peacetime and it gives the president the power to withdraw practically everything that is deemed necessary for "national security."
It is designed for peacetime, since the title of the decree says “readiness”. According to this decree, the heads of ministries of agriculture, energy, health and social services, transport, defense and trade were delegated the right to seize and distribute food, livestock, fertilizers, agricultural equipment, all forms of energy, water resources, all forms of civilian transport (which means any vehicles, ships and airplanes), as well as any other materials, including building materials, wherever their removal seems possible ”(“ The Intel Hub ”, Chris Kitze - Mixednews).
In fact, this is an update of a similar law from 1994 of the year, which was considered obsolete - that is, nothing new and frightening actually happened. However, according to some journalists, such laws are not to the American democracy:
"March 16 The White House issued an executive order entitled" Readiness of National Defense Resources. " The document is striking in its arrogance and flagrant violation of the constitution. It states that in the event of war or an emergency situation in a country, the federal government has the authority to take control of virtually all aspects of American society. Food, livestock, agricultural equipment, industrial production, the economy, energy, transport, hospitals, other health facilities, water resources, defense and construction - all of this can fall under the direct management of Obama. The order gives the president the right to dispose of all these enormous resources at his discretion during a national crisis.
“The United States must have an industrial and technical base capable of meeting the requirements of national defense and capable of contributing to the technical superiority of military equipment in peacetime and during a state of emergency in the country,” the order says. - The internal industrial and technical base is the basis of national defense readiness. The powers granted by this legislation should be used to strengthen this base and to ensure its ability to respond to the needs of the US national defense. ”
In short, this order gives Obama the opportunity to impose martial law. Now he has the authority of a dictator. This order is a direct encroachment on personal freedoms, on the rights to private property and on the rule of law. This is a flagrant violation of the constitution. The executive boldly appropriates powers contrary to the provisions of the constitution, without even asking permission from the congress. This order gives Obama a blank check to create a centralized authoritarian state. Such a law would be more logical to search somewhere in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez or in Vladimir Putin’s Russia ”(“ The Washington Times ”, Jeffrey T. Kuhner - "InoSMI.ru").
Like this. Americans are already comparing America with Russia. The world democratic hegemon has come!
It is not surprising that with the growth of anti-government sentiment, that is, with a pronounced internal enemy, the American government constantly switches the attention of the population - it’s also the electorate, by the way, and elections are not far off - to an external enemy.
It would be nice to start a war with this most external enemy: to get hold of the mineral and raw material base, and to organize an industrial uprising due to the growth of the military-industrial complex, and at the same time create somewhere another island of democracy. For example, in Syria. Or in Iran. Maybe even in China. The difficulty lies not in Obama's peace loving, but in the fact that there is no easy war anywhere. To have time to make war and win before the elections — that would be when they started ...
A potential adversary of the USA is Iran, suspected of secretly creating nuclear weapons. weapons. In addition, Israel insists on joint military operations with America. But for now, Washington is offering Tel Aviv its powerful anti-bunker bombs in exchange for delaying an air strike on Iran. In general, America is thinking - obviously, not wanting to do anything on this potential "front" before the fall elections.
There is also Syria, on which the US has already spent 25 million dollars, despite its crisis. And, of course, spend more. But these expenses, along with verbal demagogy at the “Meetings of the Friends of Syria” - in Tunisia and Turkey - and also that the unrest in Syria continues for the second year, and that there are no interventions, they speak about relatively peaceful intentions. There will be no invasion by the United States or NATO in Syria. 330.000 soldiers of the Assad army, the successful suppression by the Syrian president of oppositionists who thrive anywhere, for example, in Paris, but not in Syria, the air defense system and everything else, including chemical weapons, will not allow America confused in geography, but dreaming of "buffer zones “, Get in Damascus easy prey.
China? But here it’s rather a show of US positions in the Asia-Pacific region. Yes, the States are afraid of the growing power of the PRC, and do not plan to reduce military spending due to their presence in the APR, but this is ordinary geopolitics, not military strategy. Pure madness - to fight with nuclear China. In addition, the US economy, as Americans who have been unemployed have long realized, is entirely Chinese. However, what the hell is not joking? .. That will be the belligerent Mitt Romney, who is already declaring an increase in the defense budget of the United States, as president - and will start a war with Iran, and with China, and even with North Korea. A lover of large warships does not understand that such a war is not the same thing as indulging in a UAV in Pakistan ...
Or maybe America - on its sovereign happiness - has found an internal enemy in the form of “Capture Wall Street” and other bad groups, and soon will create a democracy of the Orwellian 1984 sample with the Ministry of Truth and Big Brother?
The above-mentioned “extraordinary” decree from 16 of March 2012 of the year, signed by Obama against the background of rebellious “groups” and “invaders” in the States, leads to certain thoughts. Like it or not, democracy (the twin sister of demagogy) has always been, is and will be the power not of the people, but over the people. Why? Because there is simply no other power, and there can be no. Any power is certainly exercised over someone: there is a subject, which means there will be an object. It is ridiculous to suppose that in politics an object coincides with a subject. We all have a craving laugh, talking about the "servants of the people" or about the authorities' fight against corruption. Any authority has the right to violence - the right is monopoly. And there is no difference in democracy, for example, with autocracy or any dictatorship.
Performances of participants in various movements in the United States are suppressed with the help of truncheons, tear gas and special means. George W. Bush and his associates to the whole world are famous for their love of execution and torture. Did America think up from unsuccessful attempts to build democracy abroad to move towards the creation of a “centralized authoritarian state” (Jeffrey T. Kuhner) - directly in Washington, New York, Los Angeles, and so on?
After all, this will allow - and quite quickly - to solve many economic and political issues.
Firstly (and immediately secondly), within the framework of the newly-built American GULAG, enterprises with extremely cheap labor will be created. The Americans will soon start to compete with the Chinese, who work a few dollars a day at 12 in their assembly plants. This will solve the economic component of the problem of confrontation with China, and at the same time the problem of unemployment. Yes, and housing issues will disappear by themselves. All will be occupied, fed and provided with beds - and not in the tents blown by the winds, but in the cozy concrete chambers.
Thirdly, the political problem of the authorities will be solved in an instant: the enemies of the people will be found - those who are to blame for all American troubles. All these “Capture” and “hate groups”, as well as other extremists and their hangers-on, will be announced as satellites of some villains who manage subversive activities directly from Guantanamo and plunged world democracy into the depths of the mortgage crisis. The authorities will start planting the enemies of the people in jails, on electric chairs - and it will go, the GDP growth curve will soon form an 45-degree angle with the x-axis. It is possible that someone will be planted or executed in vain, having overdone, but, as they say, they are chopping wood - the chips are flying.
Fourth, Obama, who may not be chosen in the fall, by imposing an “emergency” decree, will receive the power of a dictator and preserve the throne in the White House. (Here we find an explanation to why militant Hillary Clinton is still not fired). The dictatorship in the United States will give the country's economy continuous advantages. Election savings alone ("... to incline voters to Obama or McCain, as well as to all those who fought for 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 from 100 seats in the Senate, was spent 5,3 billion dollars" - newsru.com) will allow to build and launch such a large GULAG in the country that Stalin never dreamed of. Already, many residents of tent camps consider it a success for 60 dollars a day, and many are willing to work hard for their daily bread - in the literal sense of the word. After all, now in the States - about 47 millions of poor people. (Note: "... in the US, the poverty line is not measured by a set of indicators, but only by family income. Today, the level adopted by the authorities is a family of four people living on income of less than 21954 dollars per year" - "Russian service" BBC ").
Of course, the combination of an internal enemy and an external enemy would be more advantageous and more productive. An external enemy would enable the state to effectively suppress the internal enemy without any particular noise, switching all attention to “interventionists” from the outside. But only in impoverished America there is neither the means nor the power to create and maintain the image of two major enemies at once.
But gradually, over time, in a dictatorial way of sorting out the internal enemy and strengthening the economy, the new totalitarian America may become puzzled by the search for an external enemy ... However, it’s not necessary to look for it: China, angry that Americans themselves have learned how to make DVD players and cell phones and sell them by weight, might think about building communism on a star-striped territory.
Rumor has it that the United States is preparing for a new war. The war is supposed to be necessary for America to get out of the economic impasse in which it has been living since 2008, or more precisely, from 2006-2007, when the mortgage crisis began. (The problems of Barack Obama are the old problems of Bush Junior). The US government says that the financial crisis ended in 2009, but is it not cunning?
US GDP in 2009 fell by 3,5% compared to the previous year, and in 2010 it exceeded GDP 2009 by 1,7%. In 2011, compared to 2010, the gross domestic product growth in the USA was already 3,0%. And unemployment has declined: from record 10,2% in 2009 to 8,3% at the beginning of 2012. That is, if previously every tenth American was out of work, now every eighth or ninth either lives on welfare, or is poor at all. Progress, of course, but ...
Give the floor to Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve:
“The unemployment rate in February coincided with expectations and did not change against the previous month - 8,3%. At the same time, the February data consolidated the achievements of the Obama administration, because in October 2011, 9% of Americans were unemployed.
At the same time, pre-crisis levels remain an unattainable goal. Since the beginning of the financial crisis, 8,8 million Americans have lost their jobs. Since then, only 3,5 million citizens have managed to find it ”("Vesti").
Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, also does not see signs of a “recovery” in the US economy: “... Of course, no one speaks of a new recession anymore, but based on the development of the labor market, a conclusion cannot be drawn about the prospect of strong economic growth. In 2012, we expect it to be at just a little over 2%. ... according to our forecasts, unemployment will decline in the 2012 year only by a bit - to 8,2%. The process of recovery is not yet completed, especially in the real estate market ”(RBC).
Currently, about 11 million mortgage borrowers in the US are bank debtors. The American government is trying to help its citizens, and at the same time the banks, but this turns out to be bad.
“The US authorities have reached agreements with five banks - Ally Financial, Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo to write off billions of dollars in mortgage loans to 20. It is reported by The Wall Street Journal. In exchange for write-offs, prosecutors will close cases involving banks on the illegal alienation of housing.
Under the terms of the agreement, finorganizatsii will write off part of the loans and refinance loans of the so-called mortgage “underwater mortgage”. This term refers to borrowers whose own assets are much less liabilities.
Analysts believe that the agreement will not help restore the US real estate market. Agreements will also not bring benefits to banks, since they have already reserved the necessary funds for possible losses on "bad" mortgage loans.
5 more billions of dollars will be spent on individual payments to borrowers affected by the allegedly illegal actions of banks that deprived debtors of the right to buy housing. About 750, thousands of Americans will receive thousands of dollars in 1,5-2 ”("Lenta.ru").
The sum of a couple of thousand dollars except as a straw for a drowning man can not be called. By the way, when the agreement was signed, its amount was not 20, but even 25 billion dollars. However, this does not change matters.
“Everything would be great, but the agreement will have side effects that will manifest in the foreseeable future. In 2010-2011, banks significantly slowed down the housing loss process, waiting for a settlement with the government. Now nothing prevents them from launching this process at full capacity. Housing prices last year continued to fall, dropping by almost a third compared with the peak in 2006, hence the volume of bad mortgage loans has only increased.
As a result, a million borrowers will improve their financial situation and remain with housing, but, in all likelihood, they will lose much more of their property. The blow to the economy will be extremely strong. Due to the fact that debtors who were under threat of eviction were living in their homes in the last few months in the position of squatters and could be wasting on some goals outside the mortgage, the amount of expenses of American households will inevitably decrease ”(Lenta.ru, D. Migunov).
The fact is that the mortgage in the United States turned out to be a financial pyramid, stupidly built on the rise of the cost of housing:
“Recall that the global financial crisis began in the autumn of 2007, with the collapse of US mortgage bonds. Americans did not pay mortgage loans, but re-mortgaged their homes considering the growth in their market value. That is, the difference between the value of the house now and the month before, and the balance was positive, was due to the debt. Once one of the Americans, the media in the United States even called his name, could not pay the mortgage and was forced to sell his house, which led to a small but falling in the real estate market. With the cessation of the progressive rise in prices, it turned out that almost all Americans are not able to pay for a mortgage with real money, which has fallen off the real estate market. The crisis would have ended by simply throwing several million people onto the street, but on the basis of mortgage bonds, a pyramid of financial derivatives, that is, debt securities secured by future mortgage payments, was built. Therefore, not only homeowners and creditor banks were in the red, but all those who used these securities in their financial transactions. The list of operations was extensive - loan collateral, investment of money for investment purposes, settlements between banks. It turned out that all these operations are impossible, since behind them there is a simple paper that is not provided with anything ”("Peace", D, Davydov).
Sales of homes in the US are falling:
“This is an American dream: your house and a piece of land. Which leads to a sharp increase in the cost of construction, furniture, cars (public transport to the house does not go), gasoline, etc. In addition, this is a sharp increase in demand for the most "heavy" part of lending - mortgage lending. Because they don’t buy houses for cash in the USA - almost only on credit. And this is a huge risk, because in case of problems with work / income, an American loses not just a new TV (you can watch the old one), but a roof over your head for the whole family, the whole way of life and all the money paid for the house (up to a quarter monthly income for many years).
The high level of sales of single-family houses is the best indicator of the health of the economy. By the way, it was from this sector that the global economic crisis of the end of the zero years began. From the peak in 2006, home sales fell fourfold. And in 2011-m fell another quarter. With strong fluctuations by month, sales show a consistently low level and no upward trends ”(source: Gazeta.ru, A. Mikhailov).
One of the manifestations of the mortgage crisis and rising unemployment in the United States have become tent camps. Currently, thousands of Americans live in tents across the country.
“A dark-haired woman in a black cotton dress is a real estate agent selling mobile mobile homes. Rather, a former agent. Since January, 2008, a woman is forced to live in a purple tent, broken under an elm.
“The market in which I worked simply collapsed,” she says. - Banks stopped giving money to my customers.
Previously, Imelda sold at least six houses in a month. And then the mortgage crisis in the United States began to grow into a financial one. Her first clients lost their homes. And then she herself discovered that she was not able to pay the bills. Imelda’s house was auctioned off and she was on the street.
Friends bought her a tent and brought her to this tent city in Ontario in the suburbs of Los Angeles ”(source: Focus.ua).
Above the tent camp, by the way, the American flag flies “proudly” - an inverted one, symbolizing a “deep crisis”.
The ship of the American Dream crashed against the cliffs of market reality:
“It is hot and dusty in the camp, and there are much more dirty tents than clean ones. Many campers sit on drugs, and good nights are rare here.
Not far from Imelda’s tent there is a railroad, along which containers with trains move along. They are traveling from the cargo port to Long Beach. Some containers are green, they contain China Shipping. Cheap Chinese imports have long been prevalent in the US market, creating a huge trade deficit (the excess of imports over exports). This, in turn, led to an increase in US foreign debt and weakened the dollar.
“From our tent, we see American debt increasing even more with each train passing by,” said Ronda Farnsworth, a thirty-year-old, corpulent resident of the town, whose tent stands apart from the others ”(Focus.ua).
“More recently, David worked in North Carolina as a driver. At work, he broke his right leg. Since there was no insurance, the treatment resulted in him at $ 40000, turning into a bankrupt and leaving homeless. The remaining money was enough to buy a bus ticket to Ontario, the place in which he grew up.
“My American dream has fallen apart,” says David. “I spent two nights on the bus crying like a child” (same source).
What do they live here for? Some camp residents - like other camps - receive 162 dollars per month (“grocery cards”). Someone saved the savings. Someone manages to find a job, although there are lines of dozens of people waiting for 8 dollars per hour. What job? Any. Wash offices, toilets, carry weights.
Here is another tent camp in New Jersey:
“At first glance, this is reminiscent of a summer tourist camp. Tents on the edge and food on a fire. The difference is that people settled in this forest live in such conditions all year round and this is their last and only refuge. History the registrations are the same for everyone here - first the person loses his job and then the apartment, because there is nothing to pay for it. Pole Nina lost both. Ten years ago, she came to New York on the advice of a friend to work as a nanny in a family with young children. She lived there too. Before the 2008 crisis, everything was great.
“I had a good job, a lot of money. I sent them to Poland one daughter, the other, the third, also for the maintenance of his house. And then the work was gone and the problems started, ”says Nina.
In the current American home of Nina, a small kitchen, a bed, and even something resembling a chest of drawers fit around eight square meters. You can live, she says, except that the pipe from the middle of the stove-burzhuyki completely rusted and broke ... "(Channel One, B. Koltsov).
Material from "BBC":
“The leader of Panorama, Hilary Anderson ... discovers that, for many, tent camps are the last refuge in their lives.
30 tents, hidden in a forest belt along the side of an expressway in the suburb of Ann Arba, Michigan, have become a permanent home for people who have lost their jobs and those who are unable to pay rent due to low incomes.
The living conditions are unsanitary, there are no toilets, electricity is only in one common use tent, where camp residents gather around the stove for heating in the midst of winter.
The roofs of the tents sag under the weight of ice and snow, and rain often drips on sleeping faces.
Such tent settlements have increased in the 55 environs of American major cities, they demonstrate the harsh reality of the crisis of American beggars.
According to the census, 47 of millions of Americans nowadays live below the poverty line due to a steady increase in unemployment over the past 50 years ”(source of translation).
There are a total of about 12 people living in 5000 large tent camps in the USA. 13 million unemployed, of whom three million lost their jobs under Obama.
The place of residence of the American unemployed often serve as cars.
“An article from the German“ Der Spiegel ”describes a typical case of an American couple, completely crushed by what happened:
“Chanel Sabedra was on the street. She and her husband have been sleeping in the car for almost three weeks. “We never thought that this could happen to us, never,” says Sabedra and begins to cry. “I am not a child, I can take care of myself one way or another, the same goes for my husband, but (my children) are too small to go through these trials.” She has three children: nine, five and three years old.
“We had a house south of here in San Bernardino,” says Chanel. Her husband lost his job at building prefabricated houses in July 2009. Utility shut off gas. “We were hot on the barbecue to bathe the kids,” she says. Being unable to continue to pay the rent, the Sabedra family was evicted from their home in August ”(source: Nologo.su).
By the way, for spending the night in a car in many American states (for example, in California) it is necessary to pay a fine.
“Vinis, California, is just one of the places where people are arrested for living in vehicles. In the past, Vinis was popular among those who live in campers. A wave of arrests among camp residents forced the remaining at liberty to clean up their mobile homes. The following is an excerpt from an article published on the Dayly Kos website:
“They took Eric when he changed the battery in the car. Accused that he slept in his car. A few days later they went to 3 Street and took his camper, because its owner was in prison, and therefore the car did not move for 72 hours. On Saturday, they combed 7 Street and took Bear and his mobile home. They also towed camper Elizabeth, but I don’t know if they took her herself, although no one has seen her since. The police moved onto 6 Street and took a white van there, which is always parked there. Every day they take from one to four campers. Soon no one will be left. ”
If you have a black band, then very soon the authorities will try to take away from you everything that is left. The United States can be a very cruel place if you are unlucky in life ”(Nologo.su).
Many unemployed and homeless people in the United States compare what is happening with America today with the times of the Great Depression, and tent camps are already called “guvervilles.”
Already Zbigniew Brzezinski predicts a decline for America: “... if America continues to slide on an inclined plane in domestic politics and leads a short-sighted foreign policy, then its decline will definitely happen” (“Komsomolskaya Pravda”, T. Bezrukova).
Another quote from Mr. Brzezinski:
“Yes, we are a democracy trying to survive in a difficult world, implementing a reasonable foreign policy. But this is possible under the condition that the people inhabiting our country are also reasonable and sane. Otherwise we will not be able to carry out the tasks before us.
I have to admit, the American people are extremely ignorant. He has absolutely no idea about the outside world. There is no such subject in our public schools: world history. We teach children a very patriotic American story. But in reality it is an embellished “Christmas” story, far from the complex and contradictory realities of the past. Take, for example, the relationship with the indigenous people of America - the Indians. No matter how offensive it is, it must be admitted that the first ethnic cleansing "in the name of the Law" took place on American soil! Thousands of Indians were expelled from their lands under President Jackson ... And take geography. We do not teach it! Approximately 52% of current applicants of American colleges can not show on the map where New York is located. 70% enrolling in higher education in 2003-2010-s could not find Iraq - the country with which we fought! Somehow, future students were asked to identify a certain large area, shaded on the map in blue. So, 30% of them could not determine that it was the Pacific Ocean ... You smile. But this is not at all funny. Hence the incredibly lightweight attitude of a large number of Americans to foreign policy issues. And how is this international problem presented in public discussions? Often extremely relieved, only in black and white, with the prevailing demagogy ... "(“Komsomolskaya Pravda”, T. Bezrukova).
So, according to Brzezinski, a well-known patriot and propagandist of America, the US domestic policy is currently “slipping on an inclined plane”, and he has doubts about the soundness of foreign policy, apparently because Americans do not know either history or geography, but to think learn from the speeches of demagogues who cannot find the Pacific Ocean or Iraq on maps.
There is no need to go far for examples: “We must help democratize Afghanistan, Iraq and other African countries.” This is what George W. Bush said.
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So, the crisis in the US is expanding and deepening, and he has no end in sight. Against its background, the number of “hate groups” and extremist anti-government groups in America is growing rapidly. The peak of growth was in 2011 year.
“The 2011 figures for the year represent a rise for the eleventh year in a row and the highest since the Center began to track the hate groups in 1980. In 2000, only 602 of such groups existed in the country, whereas in 2011, the number of such groups reached 1018.
Perhaps even more disturbing than the small but steady growth of such groups over the past few years has been the parabolic growth of anti-government “patriotic” militia groups. The number of such groups that are separated from hate groups from 2010 to 2011 increased by 55 per year - from 824 to 1274-x. In 2008, there were only 149 of such groups, and already in 2009, their number increased to 512.
The center and other analysts attribute this growth to the increasingly widespread dissatisfaction with the role of the government as well as anger towards Obama "(source: The Huffington Post, Brian Levine - Mixednews).
17 September 2011 on the political scene was the movement "Capture Wall Street". The main demands of the protesters are connected with the smoothing of economic inequality in the United States: an increase in taxes on the richest people in America; reducing unemployment. Demonstrators also protest against the activities of various financial institutions, calling trading speculators "financial terrorists."
18 March 2012 Movement celebrated its birthday:
The Occupy Wall Street movement celebrated half a year since its foundation, reports Agence France-Presse. The protest ended with clashes with the police, several dozen people were detained.
First, the protesters marched on Wall Street. According to Reuters, 15 people were detained during the march, and three police officers were injured.
Then, in the evening of March 17, around 600 traffic participants went to Zukkotti Park. They sang and beat the drums. The protesters had plans to set up a tent camp, but the police prevented them. Detentions began around midnight. During 20 minutes, the police cleared the park of movement activists ”("Lenta.ru").
“The guards began arresting the protesters after some of them tried to set up a campground in order to settle for a long time in the park. When 100 police officers began to arrest the perpetrators, the demonstrators sat on the ground and refused to leave. The police had to put on plastic handcuffs for several dozen people and drag them into police buses. Zukotti Park was cleared of demonstrators after 20 minutes after the start of a police operation ”(RIA News").
An offshoot of Occupy Wall Street is the Occupy San Francisco movement. 3 April RIA News" reported that more of his 80 participants who refused to leave the captured building were arrested. The two-story building belongs to the Catholic Diocese, and once there was a music school. The protesters insisted that the building be used as an educational or medical center. According to the Catholic Diocese, the building was empty for about a year and a half.
“Members of the Capture San Francisco movement barricaded themselves in the building on the evening of April 1 and, apparently, intended to stay there for a long time. There were no casualties during the arrests ”("Lenta.ru").
Earlier, in mid-February, 2012, the Russian Foreign Ministry noted that the US authorities are showing unreasonable cruelty towards activists of the movement. Russian Foreign Minister Ombudsman for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law Konstantin Dolgov said: “The reaction of the American authorities is obvious elements of undue harshness and disproportionate use of force. According to estimates of human rights activists, since the fall of 2011, when the campaign “Capture Wall Street” began, more than 6 thousand people have been detained in US 110 cities ”. Dolgov added that “such actions cause particular bewilderment against the background of the constant accentuation by the American side of the need to respect human rights by other states, including the right to freedom of expression, processions and manifestations” (RIA News").
By the way, the actions of "Capture Wall Street" in New York last year cost the budget of this city 17 million dollars. “According to Raymond Kelly, the head of the megalopolis police, the authorities had to spend such money on overtime work for the police officers who took part in providing security during the actions of the“ invaders ”. He noted that often demonstrations were unpredictable and demanded increased attention from law enforcement agencies. “You never know what to expect from unplanned events,” Raymond Kelly stressed."Vesti").
Against the backdrop of protests and the growing number of "hate groups" - that is, clearly distinguishable internal state enemy, whose ranks are dangerously multiplying, threatening democracy ... with democracy - Barack Obama 16 March signed a decree on "martial law for peacetime." Note: for a peaceful time.
"This Executive Decree was published on the website of the US government WhiteHouse.gov 16 March 2012, entitled "Preparing Resources for National Defense".
In essence, this is a martial law plan for peacetime and it gives the president the power to withdraw practically everything that is deemed necessary for "national security."
It is designed for peacetime, since the title of the decree says “readiness”. According to this decree, the heads of ministries of agriculture, energy, health and social services, transport, defense and trade were delegated the right to seize and distribute food, livestock, fertilizers, agricultural equipment, all forms of energy, water resources, all forms of civilian transport (which means any vehicles, ships and airplanes), as well as any other materials, including building materials, wherever their removal seems possible ”(“ The Intel Hub ”, Chris Kitze - Mixednews).
In fact, this is an update of a similar law from 1994 of the year, which was considered obsolete - that is, nothing new and frightening actually happened. However, according to some journalists, such laws are not to the American democracy:
"March 16 The White House issued an executive order entitled" Readiness of National Defense Resources. " The document is striking in its arrogance and flagrant violation of the constitution. It states that in the event of war or an emergency situation in a country, the federal government has the authority to take control of virtually all aspects of American society. Food, livestock, agricultural equipment, industrial production, the economy, energy, transport, hospitals, other health facilities, water resources, defense and construction - all of this can fall under the direct management of Obama. The order gives the president the right to dispose of all these enormous resources at his discretion during a national crisis.
“The United States must have an industrial and technical base capable of meeting the requirements of national defense and capable of contributing to the technical superiority of military equipment in peacetime and during a state of emergency in the country,” the order says. - The internal industrial and technical base is the basis of national defense readiness. The powers granted by this legislation should be used to strengthen this base and to ensure its ability to respond to the needs of the US national defense. ”
In short, this order gives Obama the opportunity to impose martial law. Now he has the authority of a dictator. This order is a direct encroachment on personal freedoms, on the rights to private property and on the rule of law. This is a flagrant violation of the constitution. The executive boldly appropriates powers contrary to the provisions of the constitution, without even asking permission from the congress. This order gives Obama a blank check to create a centralized authoritarian state. Such a law would be more logical to search somewhere in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez or in Vladimir Putin’s Russia ”(“ The Washington Times ”, Jeffrey T. Kuhner - "InoSMI.ru").
Like this. Americans are already comparing America with Russia. The world democratic hegemon has come!
It is not surprising that with the growth of anti-government sentiment, that is, with a pronounced internal enemy, the American government constantly switches the attention of the population - it’s also the electorate, by the way, and elections are not far off - to an external enemy.
It would be nice to start a war with this most external enemy: to get hold of the mineral and raw material base, and to organize an industrial uprising due to the growth of the military-industrial complex, and at the same time create somewhere another island of democracy. For example, in Syria. Or in Iran. Maybe even in China. The difficulty lies not in Obama's peace loving, but in the fact that there is no easy war anywhere. To have time to make war and win before the elections — that would be when they started ...
A potential adversary of the USA is Iran, suspected of secretly creating nuclear weapons. weapons. In addition, Israel insists on joint military operations with America. But for now, Washington is offering Tel Aviv its powerful anti-bunker bombs in exchange for delaying an air strike on Iran. In general, America is thinking - obviously, not wanting to do anything on this potential "front" before the fall elections.
There is also Syria, on which the US has already spent 25 million dollars, despite its crisis. And, of course, spend more. But these expenses, along with verbal demagogy at the “Meetings of the Friends of Syria” - in Tunisia and Turkey - and also that the unrest in Syria continues for the second year, and that there are no interventions, they speak about relatively peaceful intentions. There will be no invasion by the United States or NATO in Syria. 330.000 soldiers of the Assad army, the successful suppression by the Syrian president of oppositionists who thrive anywhere, for example, in Paris, but not in Syria, the air defense system and everything else, including chemical weapons, will not allow America confused in geography, but dreaming of "buffer zones “, Get in Damascus easy prey.
China? But here it’s rather a show of US positions in the Asia-Pacific region. Yes, the States are afraid of the growing power of the PRC, and do not plan to reduce military spending due to their presence in the APR, but this is ordinary geopolitics, not military strategy. Pure madness - to fight with nuclear China. In addition, the US economy, as Americans who have been unemployed have long realized, is entirely Chinese. However, what the hell is not joking? .. That will be the belligerent Mitt Romney, who is already declaring an increase in the defense budget of the United States, as president - and will start a war with Iran, and with China, and even with North Korea. A lover of large warships does not understand that such a war is not the same thing as indulging in a UAV in Pakistan ...
Or maybe America - on its sovereign happiness - has found an internal enemy in the form of “Capture Wall Street” and other bad groups, and soon will create a democracy of the Orwellian 1984 sample with the Ministry of Truth and Big Brother?
The above-mentioned “extraordinary” decree from 16 of March 2012 of the year, signed by Obama against the background of rebellious “groups” and “invaders” in the States, leads to certain thoughts. Like it or not, democracy (the twin sister of demagogy) has always been, is and will be the power not of the people, but over the people. Why? Because there is simply no other power, and there can be no. Any power is certainly exercised over someone: there is a subject, which means there will be an object. It is ridiculous to suppose that in politics an object coincides with a subject. We all have a craving laugh, talking about the "servants of the people" or about the authorities' fight against corruption. Any authority has the right to violence - the right is monopoly. And there is no difference in democracy, for example, with autocracy or any dictatorship.
Performances of participants in various movements in the United States are suppressed with the help of truncheons, tear gas and special means. George W. Bush and his associates to the whole world are famous for their love of execution and torture. Did America think up from unsuccessful attempts to build democracy abroad to move towards the creation of a “centralized authoritarian state” (Jeffrey T. Kuhner) - directly in Washington, New York, Los Angeles, and so on?
After all, this will allow - and quite quickly - to solve many economic and political issues.
Firstly (and immediately secondly), within the framework of the newly-built American GULAG, enterprises with extremely cheap labor will be created. The Americans will soon start to compete with the Chinese, who work a few dollars a day at 12 in their assembly plants. This will solve the economic component of the problem of confrontation with China, and at the same time the problem of unemployment. Yes, and housing issues will disappear by themselves. All will be occupied, fed and provided with beds - and not in the tents blown by the winds, but in the cozy concrete chambers.
Thirdly, the political problem of the authorities will be solved in an instant: the enemies of the people will be found - those who are to blame for all American troubles. All these “Capture” and “hate groups”, as well as other extremists and their hangers-on, will be announced as satellites of some villains who manage subversive activities directly from Guantanamo and plunged world democracy into the depths of the mortgage crisis. The authorities will start planting the enemies of the people in jails, on electric chairs - and it will go, the GDP growth curve will soon form an 45-degree angle with the x-axis. It is possible that someone will be planted or executed in vain, having overdone, but, as they say, they are chopping wood - the chips are flying.
Fourth, Obama, who may not be chosen in the fall, by imposing an “emergency” decree, will receive the power of a dictator and preserve the throne in the White House. (Here we find an explanation to why militant Hillary Clinton is still not fired). The dictatorship in the United States will give the country's economy continuous advantages. Election savings alone ("... to incline voters to Obama or McCain, as well as to all those who fought for 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 from 100 seats in the Senate, was spent 5,3 billion dollars" - newsru.com) will allow to build and launch such a large GULAG in the country that Stalin never dreamed of. Already, many residents of tent camps consider it a success for 60 dollars a day, and many are willing to work hard for their daily bread - in the literal sense of the word. After all, now in the States - about 47 millions of poor people. (Note: "... in the US, the poverty line is not measured by a set of indicators, but only by family income. Today, the level adopted by the authorities is a family of four people living on income of less than 21954 dollars per year" - "Russian service" BBC ").
Of course, the combination of an internal enemy and an external enemy would be more advantageous and more productive. An external enemy would enable the state to effectively suppress the internal enemy without any particular noise, switching all attention to “interventionists” from the outside. But only in impoverished America there is neither the means nor the power to create and maintain the image of two major enemies at once.
But gradually, over time, in a dictatorial way of sorting out the internal enemy and strengthening the economy, the new totalitarian America may become puzzled by the search for an external enemy ... However, it’s not necessary to look for it: China, angry that Americans themselves have learned how to make DVD players and cell phones and sell them by weight, might think about building communism on a star-striped territory.
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