Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1777 The Queen of Hell (48)

  Many young people who are new to New York will have this feeling when they see that bustling metropolis: If you arrive in New York, you will conquer the world.

  It may take a few things to realize that what was once taken for granted is not so taken for granted.

  How could the American police fail to protect the public from criminals? It's not that acting on TV at all.

  Maybe the process of solving crimes by the police in the movie is very exciting, using a lot of high-tech or psychological analysis, which is almost magical, but the detection rate of the American police is indeed not high.

  As long as the case is not opened, the number of the denominator will become smaller, which is also a way to improve the rate of case detection. What's more, the laws and penalties vary from state to state. Some states retain the death penalty, while some states do not. A good lawyer can make all the evidence that law enforcers find hard to find useless, and there is no difference between the cross-state case transfer process and the transnational case. Invisibly made it more difficult to solve the case.

The obstacles brought about by the administration and the judiciary restrain the hands and feet of the police. Moreover, the U.S. government system does not support dictators. Many dictators will use the power of the judiciary and the police to eradicate dissidents, unless citizens are tainted witnesses in a major case. The police will provide safe houses and protection personnel, and will forge new identities to live in other places. The probability of this happening is very low, and it can almost become the subject of movies. Only when the citizen is killed, the police will arrest and shoot the offender based on the criminal case.

  Anyone who agrees with the rules of the game must guarantee what the authorities do. If you feel unsafe, you can buy a gun. It is legal to own a gun in the United States. Of course, New York State is a Democratic Party and is opposed to guns. They feel that when they encounter strong bandits, they would rather compete with each other's fists than with the cowboys.

  Do those white-collar workers who enter and exit the office building, carrying briefcases, and look well-mannered, fight with gang members who have thick thighs on their arms?

  People aspire to be white-collar workers. Besides being decent, but also because of the working environment, at least Manhattan office buildings will not become a battlefield in the Persian Gulf, or a mine, which may be buried alive at any time.

  In March, BP’s oil field in Texas exploded. As early as several years ago, the company had known that the refinery equipment had serious aging and safety problems. But every successful company must control costs. Rather than replacing aging equipment, companies are more willing to risk production until the refinery explodes.

Al Gore has gone to the United States to deal with this matter. Although BP is now a subsidiary of American Petroleum, the Malfoy family also has an industry there. As early as last year, a refinery worker claimed that "I will not survive today." And this is a common phenomenon.

  The people who worked in the original office do not have to worry about this problem, but the 9/11 incident made this sense of security disappear, and they are shrouded in the cloud of "the king of terror descends from the sky" at any time.

  Before the incident, Merrill Lynch had an entire floor as an office in the World Trade Center, as well as Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and Morgan Stanley. After the building collapsed, the company was rebuilt. The homeless man could go to other places in Merrill Lynch to continue working, but he eventually became a homeless man. He had to rely on an immigrant who didn’t speak English and was also homeless to cut and shave his hair. Not as sloppy as other homeless people.

  For the time being, the homeless man is called Yamazaki. This name is essentially similar to the source of the Pentagon’s unwillingness to reveal his name. His area of ​​responsibility was related to the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

The mode of operation of this bank is in plain and easy-to-understand terms that the government takes the money from the taxpayers and gives it to the Export-Import Bank, and the Export-Import Bank transfers the money to "obedient" companies, such as company b and Company g, when other countries buy airplanes from company b, they promise to return the money to company b and repay the export-import bank loan at a lower than market interest rate.

  Wait, why did the Export-Import Bank and company b agree?

Yamazaki-san will say that the American aircraft manufacturing company is not only company b, but company b has a "special relationship" with the Pentagon. These orders are handed over to company b, and other companies will not receive the orders, and shareholders of company b can get them. Some other producers can also create benefits, and company b will receive import and export subsidies from the U.S. Treasury Department, which is also issued by the Export-Import Bank. In order to manufacture more aircraft, company b will create a few limited jobs. People who find other jobs.

  So will this not form a monopoly? What about small and medium import and export enterprises?

Yamazaki-san will say that the Export-Import Bank must spend 10% of the annual fee on small trading companies. Of course, these small companies are also dependent on company b, which is not its upstream raw material supplier or downstream service provider. The formation of the system was related to Roosevelt’s New Deal in 1934. At that time, the president was planning to provide subsidies for companies exporting to the Soviet Union. However, some private financiers saw that the new Soviet government refused to recognize the debts left by the former Tsarist regime, so they were unwilling to provide these for the Soviet Union. Exporting companies provide financing. On the other hand, the New Deal executors sensed the opportunity and the accompanying commercial benefits, and they asked the Treasury Department to provide credit to these international traders, especially many other countries and individuals who were unwilling to fund domestic companies that deal with the United States. Later, the political situation aborted the Soviet trade loan project, but the Export-Import Bank was able to retain it. At that time, the bank's first business was to allow Cuba to buy silver. Since then, the bank continued to implement political loans, such as railroads and heavy equipment. The industry provides credit. Only with the rise of Japan, the excavator company K in the United States encountered Komatsu as a competitor. Because of efficiency issues, company K had to lay off employees. At that time, the chairman of the company K was named Lee Morgan, who was famous in the 1960s. The trumpeter is also called by this name.

  But he is the Morgan.

  Yamazaki-san said, yes, that Morgan, he talked about this topic when he and his friends were playing golf together, and then they collectively lobbied the government and asked the government to introduce a policy to force the yen to appreciate.

  What about the Export-Import Bank? What can they not do?

Yamazaki-san said that when the Export-Import Bank lowered interest rates, it was necessary for foreign countries to come to the United States to purchase goods. At that time, the Bank of Japan also followed the model of the Export-Import Bank of the United States and opened the Export-Import Bank of Japan to provide almost the same services, but in the mid-1960s , They transferred the export loans for complete sets of equipment to the development of overseas resources.

  To make way for the Americans?

   Yamazaki-san said that for the Japanese to do this, American products still won’t compete, and they can only start with the exchange rate. Labor costs in the United States are too high, and taxes are also high. I once filed a tax return for a dual-employer family. Their income increased by 224% compared to 1977, but their taxes increased by 340%. Europeans do not sympathize with Americans on taxation issues. Europe has always occupied a much larger share of national income than the US government. Most Europeans have higher taxes per capita than Americans. But even so, the US tax system It was still the most greedy. In 2000, the government drew $3 trillion in tax revenue and spread it evenly to 275 million men, women, and children, each paying $11,000. The revolutionaries during the War of Independence were very taxed. When I was young, I chanted the slogan of "No representation, no taxes." Workers are not represented in Congress. In contrast, the tax rate of the rich is very low, and they will do everything possible to evade taxes.

  How does the government deal with it?

   Yamazaki-san said that the IRS has added more than 3,000 employees who carried out arrest missions with guns. During the prohibition period, there was Al Capone, the leader of the Chicago gang. He has countless blood debts, but he was finally arrested for tax evasion. Those people who have the right to collect taxes mean that you will be hurt if you refuse to pay taxes. The United States is loose in other aspects and is absolutely unambiguous in tax collection, especially in the absence of the government. When they had money, they refused to repay the debts to the French in the early days of the founding of the nation. During the Great Depression, they asked the new Soviet government for loans owed by the previous government. But now, unlike during the Great Depression, taxes are not used for infrastructure construction, not only in New York, but infrastructure in all parts of the United States needs to be refurbished, but the government's signing of contracts with construction contractors will make military contractors unhappy. Ten days after the Pearl Harbor attack, President Roosevelt convened a meeting of dozens of employers and union members in Washington, asking them not to stop work or strike during the war. If there is an unresolvable dispute, they can be handed over to the state to intervene. At that time, military expenditures accounted for 40% of the gross national product. Many outstanding businessmen resigned and took the initiative to provide free services to the government.

Is    really free?

Yamazaki-san said that most of the participants in the National Reconstruction Agency are followers of Rockefeller and DuPont. These people deal with major customers such as the union and the army and navy, just like geisha in the snow, the government and contractors. Because they have become more and more intimate, the set contract price is no longer binding, and can be changed at any time, and can be modified at will to avoid loss. The only important thing is to maintain the production line, and in this process, only the taxpayer is lost, because They are not represented in the government. In addition, their patriotic enthusiasm is high. The United States may not have those dictators who are good at speaking on radio and television. However, the National Renaissance Agency has used dictators to incite the labor enthusiasm of workers in factories. This is based on private interests. Groups, government supervision, expenditure and lending departments, and subcommittees of congressional policy supervision will emerge in a crisis. All forces that block the interests of the organization will disappear regardless of whether it is macro or micro. Kennedy's televised speech in 1961 As mentioned above, beware of secret societies. They will use the announcement to enhance social security to expand the power of the hidden official censorship. Expense is not a problem, and secrets will not be revealed. In the military economy, societies are eager to cover up everything and the defense department consumes them. A lot of resources. On the one hand, the government has exerted a ubiquitous influence on these private contractor companies. On the other hand, these companies have used various means to participate in the rotation of personnel from advisory committees to the Pentagon to influence military institutions. You can understand this as There is a revolving, never-ending door between the big suppliers and the Pentagon. Every year, thousands of senior military officers will soon find a place in the defense industry after they retire, and the senior executives in the company will also leave. Later, I went to the Pentagon to serve as a senior military officer. This exchange of personnel is not limited to the Pentagon and contractors. Research institutions, consultants, and congressional staff are also involved. In this case, it is easy for them to forget who they are working for. , Or usa. To a large extent, the performance of the weapon designed by the contractor has long been required by the military. If the weapon system design is approved, the contract will be completed, but this research and development process can sometimes be very long.

  So, it is necessary for the Export-Import Bank to pay taxpayers' money to those contractors, let them develop a new system, and then use export commodities as a cover?

Yamazaki-san said that increasing military expenditures will bring great resistance. Increasing the credit of the Export-Import Bank and improving the previous export control can obtain more trade and employment opportunities. Before 9/11, some people proposed open and transparent audits and cut 24% of the income. Export bank budgets were used to reduce corporate welfare. These attacks disappeared after 9/11. Do you remember the 10% of corporate trade subsidies mentioned earlier? They will not only play the role of rushing to the beach, risking the risk that private companies will not take to enter the most competitive areas for American companies and the most protected areas by foreign governments, but also be responsible for increasing the allocation of funds and expanding the scale of credit. To ensure that American exporters are in an advantageous position in the international market.

  Are you an audit?

   Yamazaki-san smiled and said, if I were, I would be dead. Military contractors are the source of everything. Raising automobile and import tariffs will not only not protect the American automobile manufacturing industry, but will also bring greater risks. European unions have greater power than American unions, and the French levy them on the rich. The income tax rate is 75%. High welfare and high labor costs have caused a decline in product competitiveness. A large amount of manpower has begun to move to government departments and strategic resource enterprises. The unemployment rate in France has always been higher than that in the United States. Unemployment is the norm for French people. , But young people in France are more willing to go to the UK on the other side of the Strait to work, and they are unwilling to go to large companies like Alstom, because they are more afraid of losing their ability to work than the employment opportunities created by the government and will never be able to work.

  Is it bad to have a stable job?

Yamazaki-san said that every piece of work experience should make a person stronger. Alstom’s expansion of enrollment caters to the needs of some French people who look to clever bureaucrats to solve their employment problems, but it has caused a serious problem of bloated institutions. The competitiveness of enterprises is reduced. Young people are worried that they will be laid off and they will lose their competitiveness in employment. Long-term unemployment will cause employers to be very picky about such people and become a different kind of society. The French manage the British and American social model as Anglo The Saxon model. This is tantamount to political suicide. They will not take the risk of rebuilding the national economic system and switch to the Anglo-Saxon model, pushing the unemployed into the fire pit, but not eliminating the eliminated people. These people will make the organization bloated. , Unable to deal with the elite beachhead forces of the United Kingdom and the United States. This gap will only be eliminated when one of the parties changes its policy, otherwise the gap between Western Europe and the United States and Britain will remain.

  Which model do you think is better?

   Yamazaki-san said, I read a book written by a Frenchman, and felt that there was a sentence he said very well.

What did he say?

   Yamazaki-san said that the people do not yearn for freedom, they just hate their king. When all of us are enslaved, we are all equal, but freedom creates inequality. The passion of equality can inspire the desire of the weak to become the strong, and it can also allow the weak to beat the strong and reduce the strong to their own level. If I were not the one to be pushed into the fire pit, I would think the Anglo-Saxon model is good.

  Is it just because of your situation that changed your point of view?

Yamazaki-san said, if I was still young, I would long for the equal opportunities that Americans want. Now that I am old, what I want is equal results. Unfortunately, the house is not milk, and it disappears when it is thrown away, otherwise it will not be on the street. There will be so many empty houses, tempting me to break through empty doors and live in.

  　 Happy 100 years

  (End of this chapter)