(City and Suburb)Who Has Supported the Superpower USA?
If the U.S. loses respect from all over the world due to this financial crisis and the underlying foreclosure phenomena, what is its status of being the sole superpower on the earth?
Citizens of the Roman Empire never felt a duty to make other tribes and kingdoms prosper along with growth of the Empire.
Yet citizens of the United States must feel a duty to make other countries and regions prosper along with growth of the U.S.
Citizens of the Roman Empire never felt a duty to make peoples of other tribes and kingdoms feel proud of themselves as equal members of mankind.
Yet citizens of the United States must feel a duty to make peoples of other nations and kingdoms feel proud of themselves as equal members of mankind.
As the citizens of the Roman Empire never felt such duties, the Empire collapsed in the due course of history.
If the citizens of the U.S. never feel such duties, the U.S. would collapse in the due course of history.
Just think about it. Why have American citizens been able to enjoy such a huge amount of credit made available to them at lower costs and rates?
It is because Japan has provided big funds to the U.S. financial sector and purchased so many U.S. Treasury bonds in these decades, though China has followed suit in these years.
Without showing any gratitude to global financial supporters, American citizens have been enjoying rich lives leveraging lucrative credit systems which have been supported by huge inflow of money from Japan, oil-producing Islamic countries, European investors, and so on.
As American citizens are not grateful to Japan and other global financial supporters while living in such big houses, we cannot expect them to express their thanks to the God.
The American Dream has been bolstered not by hard working of American people but by extremely large infusion of money from overseas.
Without being aware of this reality, if American voters elect Mr. Barack Obama as their President, potential and underlying problems will not be solved.
In other word, only when American citizens start to express their appreciation to Japan and other global investors, the crisis in the U.S. economy and other problems in the U.S. society will be solved.
Electing an African American as U.S. President alone may be a too easy method of addressing such issues.
The key is respect for God, respect for Japan, and respect for other global financial backers.
Without such respect, Americans look like ancient Romans, since they never respected peoples living in the north of the Alps as well as Israelites.
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That is all for today.
It is cloudy and chilly around Tokyo.
Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso yesterday announced that he would urgently take exhaustive measures to cope with the current financial crisis triggered on Wall Street.
Prime Minister Mr. Aso also said that he would not hold a general election for the time being.
Indeed, if another Great Depression should be induced by this financial crisis, a future textbook of history would read: "American people never ceased their election fever while the destruction was coming nearer in the early 21st century."
It might be better for President Mr. George W. Bush to exercise his power so as to postpone the Presidential Election Day for, say, 100 days, since people are getting too passionate with possible President Mr. Barack Obama just like Napoleon Bonaparte had been frantically welcomed before his 100-day reign in France of the 19th century.
(Do you think that Napoleon ever loved music composed by Mozart, if you are even French?
http://windy.vis.ne.jp/art/lib/aveverum.htm
Source: http://windy.vis.ne.jp/art/classic-midi/mozart.htm)
Joh 10:31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Joh 10:32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
Joh 10:33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
Joh 10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
Joh 10:35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
Joh 10:36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
Joh 10:37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
Joh 10:38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Joh 10:39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
Joh 10:40 And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.