家庭で窮乏の間、戦争のための多くの資金
ポールCraigロバーツ著 | 米国の上院は$165次のばねを通してアフガニスタンおよびイラクに対してブッシュの侵略戦争に資金を供給するために,000,000,000を投票した。 米国が壊れたおよびあるので借りられなければならない負債、$165十億ドルの各自で深い。 アメリカの消費者はまた壊れた負債で深いあり。 ゼロセービング率の平均は$165十億ドルの各自外国人から借りられなければならない。
「世界の唯一の超出力」はあったり従ってそれを自身の戦争を融資できない壊した。
ブッシュの責任のない政体が外国人から懇請しなければならない各々の付加的なドルはドルの価値により多くの下方への圧力を置く。 無駄になる8およびブッシュの政体の贅沢な年の間強大なドルがユーロに対して価値の約60%を失ったら。
ドルは金およびオイルに対して価値のさらに失った。
ブッシュが彼の侵略戦争を始めた前に、オイルはバレル$25だった。 今日それはバレル$130である。 この上昇のいくつかは先物市場の逃亡の推測に起因するかもしれない。 但し、主要な原因はドルの腐食の価値である。 オイルは実質であり、ペーパードルとは違って供給で限られる。 従って米国の大きい貿易および財政赤字を使って、ドルの義務の台紙の流出、ドルの価値の下で運転する。
オイルのドル価格が上がるたびに、米国の貿易赤字は上がり、米国エネルギー使用の外国の融資を要求する。 ブッシュは18か月外国人によって融資されなければならない遅あらゆるドル2006年に$106,000,000,000からおよそ$500,000,000,000に米国オイルの輸入手形を運転することをどうにかして。
外貨なしで、米国「超出力」は輸入高か政府の操作を融資できない。
オイル価格が上がるとき、ますます貧しいアメリカ人は彼らの冬の暖房手形を支払うことができない。 従って、上院の軍出費手形はアメリカの貧しい人々の成長する軍隊のためのより多くの暖房の助成金を含んでいる。
エネルギーの価格の上昇はすべての商品を作り出し、運ぶことの価格の上で運転するが、アメリカの収入は非常に豊富のを除いて上がっていない。
The disappearing value of the US dollar, which pushes up oil prices and raises the trade deficit, then pushes up heating subsidies and raises the budget deficit.
If oil was the reason Bush invaded Iraq, the plan obviously backfired. Oil not merely doubled or tripled in price but quintupled.
America’s political leaders either have no awareness that Bush’s wars are destroying our country’s economic position and permanently lowering the living standards of Americans or they do not care. McCain says he can win the war in Iraq in five more years and in the meantime “challenge” Russia and China. Hillary says she will “obliterate” Iran. Obama can’t make up his mind if he is for war or against it.
The Bush Regime’s inability to pay the bills it is piling up for Americans means that future US governments will cut promised benefits and further impoverish the people. Over a year ago The Nation reported that the Bush Regime is shedding veteran costs by attributing consequences of serious war wounds to “personality disorders” in order to deny soldiers promised benefits.
Previous presidents reduced promised Social Security benefits by taxing the benefits (a tax on a tax) and by rigging the cost of living adjustment to understate inflation. Future presidents will have to seize private pensions in order to make minimal Social Security payments.
Currently the desperate Bush Regime is trying to cut Medicaid health care for the poor and disabled.
The Republican Party is willing to fund war, but sees everything else as an extravagance. The neoconized war party is destroying the economic prospects of American citizens. Is “war abroad and poverty at home” the Republican campaign slogan for the November election?
Paul Craig Roberts wrote the Kemp-Roth bill and was assistant secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was associate editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and contributing editor of National Review. He is author or co-author of eight books, including The Supply-Side Revolution (Harvard University Press). He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon chair in political economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and senior research fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has contributed to numerous scholarly journals and testified before Congress on 30 occasions. He has been awarded the U.S. Treasury’s Meritorious Service Award and the French Legion of Honor. He was a reviewer for the Journal of Political Economy under editor Robert Mundell.
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