(The Tokyo Bay and a TV Station)The Enemy, US Middle Class?
(La classe moyenne américaine est l'ennemi)
Roughly speaking and taking into consideration a recent trend of the weakened dollar, we may be allowed to assume the following:
- The US labor population is 150 million and its GDP is $10 trillion.
- Japan’s labor population is 70 million and its GDP is $5 trillion.
The ratio is almost 2 to 1 between the world No.1 economic power and No.2., though the population ratio is 2.5 to 1 and the land size parity is 24 to 1, which means Japanese are more diligent and smarter, to your surprise.
(So, the EEE Reporter must be Japanese.)
But, there is another hidden great disparity between Japan and the U.S., which is on charity, though it is a reflection of difference in traditional practices for mutual aid, since Japan itself can be regarded as a big farm village where the Christian concept of charity is not fit.
And, also, the exceptional emerging economy China must be another focus in discussing how to avoid future Great Global Depression, which would blow off significance of every argument about the War on Terror, since the concept of mutual aide is so different between Japan and China, almost desperately.
Yet, the key is charity, since it can lead to a US Religious Revolution which would save the world.
SECTION I: Master Sun-Tzu, President Hu and Bush
In 2006, when China's President Mr. Hu Jintao visited the White House, he presented President Mr. George W. Bush with the book, The Art of War, ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu wrote in the 5th century B.C.
I do not feel that Mr. Hu respects Mr. Bush. Mr. Bush should have immediately presented Mr. Hu with the Bible of the King James Version.
It is because,
"Master Sun said:
"Intelligence is of the essence in warfare.
It is what the armies depend upon in their every move."
It is also because the U.S. leads China in terms of charity.
Say “charity” to Chinese leaders, you will see how they will be embarrassed.
Moreover, China's President Mr. Hu Jintao had reportedly built his career through his suppression of Tibetans. But, it is Mr. Hu that should learn the work of Sun Tzu from its preface.
“The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler,
so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.”
Indeed, for Tibetans, there is no moral law in dominance of irreligionists, namely Chinese communists. Therefore, unlike Manchus, Tibetans cannot be absorbed by Han people.
And, the truth of Sun Tzu’s mind is hatred to war, since he wrote:
“All warfare is based on deception.”
http://www.chinapage.com/sunzi-e.html
This is the essence of Sun Tzu’s teaching. Therefore, you may apply his teaching to anything but war, very ironically, since Sun Tzu must have wished that every greedy king and general promoting war would be punished by Heaven, in my humble view.
SECTION II: TAX vs. CHARITY
Charity is, unlike warfare, not based on deception. Therefore, Sun Tzu would not hate it. Then we can apply his teaching to charity:
“The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler,
so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.”
The US budget revenue in 2004 is $1880 billion.
The Total charitable giving by Americans in 2005 is estimated to have been $260 billion, an increase of 2.7 percent (when adjusted for inflation) over 2004
As the US working population is 147 million in 2004, every worker can be regarded as having paid 12,800 dollars for tax and having offered 1,800 dollars for charity.
This is great, since it matches the principle of tithe.
America can be still saved by holy teaching endowed them with by Jesus Christ.
To put an end to the War on Terror, American people should give charity money to poor Muslims, say, in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
If each of 147 million American workers offers 1,800 dollars per year to them as charity, 147 million poor Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan will receive 1,800 dollars per capita per year.
This is the right way to win the War on Terror and introduce true Democracy in Islamic countries.
SECTION III: US Charity Statistics
The following are excerpts from a certain charity-related Web site which, I suppose, are interesting when considering a possibility of a US Religious Revolution:
http://www.generousgiving.org/page.asp?sec=4&page=161#300
- Disaster Relief: Americans gave an estimated $7.37 billion for disaster relief in 2005: $5.3 billion for Hurricane Katrina, $1.92 billion for the Tsunami relief, and $0.15 billion for the India-Pakistan earthquake relief.
- Giving to Religious Groups: Americans gave an estimated $93.18 billion to religious organizations in 2005, an increase of 2.5 percent (when adjusted for inflation).
- Giving to Human Services: Americans gave $25.36 billion to human services in 2005, an increase of 28% (when adjusted for inflation).
- Average Annual Giving: On average, wealthy Americans (annual income of $150,000 or more) give away 1.9 percent of their annual income.
- Under $300,000: American families making under $300,000 a year give away roughly 2.3 percent of their incomes.
- Over $300,000: American families making over $300,000 a year give away roughly 4.4 percent of their incomes.
- Giving by Class: The two groups in the United States that give the highest percentages of their income are the poor (those making less than $20,000 per year) and the rich (those making more than $100,000 per year). Middle-class Americans (those making between $40,000 and $100,000 per year) are the smallest percentage givers.
- Christian Wealth and World Poverty: On average, American Christians enjoy an annual household income of $42,409, while 1.2 billion of the world's poorest people must survive on $1 a day.
- Christians Not Giving: Among adults who attend church regularly, (an average of a least once a month), 37 percent did not give any money to a church in 1996.
- The Great Depression and Today: In 1933, the worst year of the Great Depression, per capita income was at the lowest point it would reach between 1921 and 2000, whether measured in current or inflation-adjusted dollars. Yet per member giving among the 11 primary Protestant denominations (or their historical antecedents) in the United States and Canada as a percentage of income was 3.3 percent. In all the prosperity of 2000, per member giving was only 2.6 percent.
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So, poor Americans should turn to God, Jesus Christ, and other poor people instead to conventional religious organizations and religions, in order to make their charity based on love to the poor more sacred.
That is a key to solution to the War on Terror, expected US economic slump, and so on.
(Another book I bought the other day is the one written by Mr. Kenji Mizutani.
http://www.tokyo-fukushi.ac.jp/english/kantou_ichiran/syousai/mizutani.html )
A decade ago or so, he was a kind of regular commentator in a late-night business reporting TV program called World Business Satellite broadcast by Television Tokyo Channel 12.
I may refer to his warning on Japanese economy soon, since US public debt is $9 trillion and Japan’s is $8 trillion.
You had better invite non-nonsense economist to a TV studio or a congressional official building even to secure your investment, if not yet decided to follow teaching of Jesus Christ or the path for Buddha’s enlightenment…)
Dan 4:24 This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king: