American Employers (Les employeurs américains)
The key to understanding the U.S. might be held by Native Americans.
So, it is important to see the relationship between Native Americans and Christianity:
The introduction of European civilization to North America brought military conquest, economic pursuits and Christianity to the native population. Ignoring immense differences in culture in the inhabitants of North America, Europeans linked all the aborigines together as "Indians", denied their right to the soil, and sought to trade with and convert them to whatever brand of Christianity the colonizers espoused.[7] Today, Christianity is the predominant religion in several Native American communities. Generally speaking, these communities are "fundamentalist in theology, conservative in their practice, and often revivalistic and evangelical."[8] Many Native Americans also practice Christianity in combination with another tribal religion.Then, what is the state of their employment?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_religions#Christianity
For instance, the national unemployment rate among Native people spiked from 7.7 percent in the first half of 2007 to 15.2 percent in the first half of 2010. Whites experienced a 4.1 percent and 9.1 percent unemployment rate respectively, in the same time period.Native Americans need help from God more than European Americans do. I hope that this is not a proof that Christianity has failed in America.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/6801/the_state_of_native_america_very_unemployed_and_mostly_ignored/
SECTION I: Who Hires How Many in the US?
Indeed, Wal-Mart is the largest employer among public companies in the U.S.
But, those who make and deliver goods and products to Wal-Mart are mostly Chinese workers working in Chinese makers who have obtained capital and technology from Japan in these decades.
No....Business....Revenue Rank....Number of Employeeshttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2007/performers/companies/by_employees/index.html
1 Wal-Mart Stores.... 1.... 1,900,000
2 McDonald's.... 108.... 465,000
3 United Parcel Service.... 43.... 428,000
4 Intl. Business Machines.... 15.... 355,766
5 Sears Holdings.... 38.... 352,000
6 Target.... 33.... 352,000
7 Citigroup.... 8.... 332,000
8 General Electric.... 6.... 319,000
9 Home Depot.... 17.... 305,760
10 AT&T.... 27.... 302,770
11 Kroger.... 26.... 300,000
12 Ford Motor.... 7.... 283,000
13 General Motors.... 3.... 280,000
14 Verizon Communications.... 13.... 242,000
15 FedEx.... 68.... 221,677
16 Berkshire Hathaway.... 12.... 217,550
17 United Technologies.... 42.... 214,500
18 Safeway.... 56.... 207,000
19 Bank of America Corp..... 9.... 203,425
20 Aramark.... 214.... 200,000
21 Federated Dept. Stores.... 76.... 188,000
22 Altria Group.... 23.... 175,000
23 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co..... 11.... 174,360
24 Delphi.... 83.... 171,400
25 Walgreen.... 44.... 168,600
26 PepsiCo.... 63.... 168,000
27 Yum Brands.... 262.... 166,600
28 HCA.... 87.... 161,500
29 Wells Fargo.... 41.... 158,000
30 Lowe's.... 45.... 157,349
31 Darden Restaurants.... 404.... 157,300
32 Hewlett-Packard.... 14.... 156,000
33 J.C. Penney.... 116.... 155,000
34 Gap.... 144.... 154,000
35 Boeing.... 28.... 154,000
36 Marriott International.... 203.... 150,600
37 Starbucks.... 310.... 145,800
38 Starwood Hotels & Rsrts..... 381.... 145,000
39 Lockheed Martin.... 57.... 140,000
40 Procter & Gamble.... 25.... 138,000
41 CVS/Caremark.... 51.... 136,000
42 Johnson Controls.... 67.... 136,000
43 Walt Disney.... 64.... 133,000
44 Electronic Data Systems.... 111.... 131,000
45 Best Buy.... 72.... 128,000
46 Emerson Electric.... 115.... 127,800
47 TJX.... 133.... 125,000
48 Alcoa.... 71.... 123,000
49 Johnson & Johnson.... 36.... 122,200
50 Northrop Grumman.... 73.... 122,200
From the April 30th, 2007 issue
Among top 50, the 25th company employs about 170,000 workers. Accordingly, top 50 companies are estimated to hire 50 x 170,000 = 8.5 million workers in total in the U.S.
I suppose they can increase this number twice larger. Then, another 8.5 million Americans will be hired while presently 13.9 million people are out of job in the U.S. (9.1 percent).
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
It is so simple to find a right direction to a right solution: Let top US 50s double their employment!
SECTION II: 8th Century
As I proved, the Second Coming of Christ Jesus started in the year calculated through Newton's study and my analysis on history.
It was 2010: 1260 + 750 = 2010
My adoption of the year 750 is based on the Islamic Golden Age that started in 750 and the history of Buddhism in Japan that spotlighted 752 when the world's largest bronze statue of the Buddha was built in the then capital of Japan.
(Refer to http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2011/08/having-eyes-see-ye-not.html and http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2011/08/have-ye-your-heart-yet-hardened.html)
As for other examples in terms of 750,
1) Around 770, the first Buddhist temple was built in Tibet.
2) In 8th century Java, a mighty Buddhist kingdom rose. Sailendra conquered a region presently called Indonesia and introduced Buddhism in Cambodia. Their descendants sailed the Indian Ocean as far as Madagascar. The kingdom also built Borobudur, the largest Buddhist structure in the world, in Java Island.
3) In 8th century, Secret Mantra or Vajrayana Buddhism, a complex and multifaceted system of Buddhist thought and practice, was introduced from India into China under the Tang Dynasty. Japanese students in China also learnt this school of Buddhism; they deepened study of the teaching after coming back to Japan.
Indeed, Buddhism experienced great expansion in East Asia, from Japan to Indonesia, around 750.
As the Second Coming of Christ would inevitably have an influence on all the mankind, including Buddhists, the year 750 must be adopted as the starting year for Newton's discovered 1260 year period. Besides as I wrote yesterday, there is a possibility that early Christianity had a kind of linkage with Buddhism through Essenes and Pythagoreans as suggested by the Dead Sea Scrolls.
So, Christ Jesus' Second Coming already started in 2010:
2010 = 750 + 1260
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In 1494, there were 300,000 Native Americans in Haiti.
But, in 50 years, the population dwindled to 500! Indeed, Haiti was from the beginning a symbolic place for the American history. Around the island, Columbus lost one of his ships that reached the New Continent for the first time in the European history.
The Santa Maria had a single deck and three masts. She was the slowest of Columbus's vessels but performed well in the Atlantic crossing. She ran aground off the present-day site of Cap Haitien, Haiti on December 25, 1492, and was lost.[3] Realizing that the ship was beyond repair, Columbus ordered his men to strip the timbers from the ship. The timbers from the ship were later used to build Mole Saint-Nicolas, which was originally called La Navidad (Christmas) because the wreck occurred on Christmas Day.In January 2010, a great earthquake hit Haiti, taking on 300,000 lives eventually and making one million survivors homeless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Mar%C3%ADa_(ship)
This natural disaster made me deeply shocked when it occurred. Haiti is so close to the U.S. (and Cuba). Haiti is so poor though it is so close to the U.S. Haiti is associated with the great voyage by Columbus of 1492. (And, Haiti is probably the only nation in Americas where French is one of official languages while English is not.)
While the rich United States is so safe from earthquakes, why must poor Haiti should suffer such a big one?
Anyway, it was a big mistake that some Japanese elite politicians, bureaucrats, and executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company did not take the Haiti tragedy as a warning to them. God further gave another warning with an earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, in February 2011, where about 180 people lost lives, including 30 or so Japanese students and travelers. It was a big mistake that some Japanese elite politicians, bureaucrats, and executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company did not take the Christchurch tragedy as a warning to them. This natural disaster made me deeply shocked when it occurred, too, since so many Japanese died in a city with such a holy name.
Then, on March 11, 2011, an M9.0 earthquake occurred 130 km off Honsyu Island of Japan.
The earthquake generated 15-meter high tsunamis to submerge several reactor units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant run by TEPCO. Two of the four crippled reactors losing emergency power supply discharged radioactive material in a large quantity when they underwent hydrogen explosions. People now compare this ongoing accident to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This is a very apocalyptic incident. But it must have happened only to show the glory of the God in whatever context. It is so, since the Second Advent must have started in 2010.
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Mar 8:20 And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.