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The article in Time on Feb 5th 2018, National Nightmare, Why Are So Many Americans Angry? mentions that the mainstream press talk about "wealth inequality" when referencing our country's social problems. But what they hide is that the growing disparity between rich and poor in America is not the root cause but a symptom of our problem. The real cause is that wages are no longer connected to gains in productivity. But the link between productivity and wages was permanently changed when Nixon forever broke the link between US dollar and gold. They increase the amount of money by huge amounts, in response to demands from powerful groups—especially banks.

最新一期的美國《時代》周刊題為《國家夢魘——為什么如此多的美國人吐槽？》的文章稱，一說到美國的社會問題，美國的主流媒體常提到“財富不平等”這樣的字眼。他們諱莫如深的是——美國日益擴(kuò)大的貧富差距只是問題的癥狀，而非根源。真實原因是工資不再與生產(chǎn)效率掛鉤。兩者之間的關(guān)系因尼克松廢除金本位制而被永久性地改變了。當(dāng)局大肆印鈔以迎合強勢群體，尤其是銀行的需要。

The article with the title saying Why Other Countries don’t Have Government Shutdown in Washingtonpost on Feb 1st, 2018, mentioned that most countries inf luenced by Britain’s parliamentary system, like Canada, Bangladesh and etc,have installed specific mechanisms to escape a U.S.-style deadlock.Their budgets are even more associated with the fate of those in power themselves than in the United States — which, often ends up helping to reach consensus.

2018年2月1日的《華盛頓郵報》一篇題為《為什么其他國家政府不關(guān)門》的文章稱,像加拿大和孟加拉等受英國議會制度影響的國家都設(shè)有特定的機制來規(guī)避美國式的僵局。這些國家的預(yù)算問題更多地與當(dāng)權(quán)派自身的政治命運有關(guān)聯(lián)，故最終往往以達(dá)成一致而結(jié)束。