主题：从萧条到繁荣，再到萧条 -- 西瓜子

wooow... big hat falling down.

Have those stupid red neck heard about Edgar Hoover?? What Hoover did will easily scare the shit out of them.

The lying, and playboy president JFK?

The "family-man" president who had a secret affair with his own former secretary: Ike Eisenhower?

动摇了美国宪政的根基，令美国人对自己的国家和未来失去信心。后来美国政客越来越不掩饰自私狭隘和为小集团牟暴利，这一切罪恶自尼克松开始

--have they read the story about the Federalist party? Have they read about Thomas Jefferson, who stabbed his former ally in the Congress, the guy who had a secret affair with his beautiful slave servant, but denied his own kids with personal liberty?

American politicians were, are and will be dirty since the birth of this republic. They are just like average Joes on the street, just with a different profession.

What is politics? Politics IS 为小集团牟暴利, politics is about reallocation of economic resources through a NON-market based mechanism. Nobody in this business is perfectly "clean".

如果不是尼克松的所作所为，美国人看政治大概不会现在这样的态度。

现在的美国这种想象,实际上是二战后确立的. 华盛顿,杰斐逊们立国时对国家的想象,林肯南北战争时的想象和我们现在的想象其实完全不同. 前世的文宣,选择性记忆纳入了共同的集体想象. 美国强大是因为集体英雄先辈走在正确的道路上, 只要继续走下去, 美国会继续强大下去. 这就是一种自我实现的咒语, 经常念就会信心百倍. 只是这也是一种魔障. 其实每个原教旨份子都有这种自我实现的咒语, 所以世界上充满了念着不同咒语的人互相诅咒对方下地狱.

Any books to recommend?

del

raw materials for politicians are so few in any country...

It also tells you that most Chinese are pretty naive: they actually fight against each for economic benefits day by day, but often paint their own "meat fight" as a moral debate.

Nobody is moral here: it is just a game of pork-barreling...

里面对IT、电子行业食物链有比较直观的描述。看看会很有帮助。

就我略之一二的造船业，有这样的说法：中国抄韩国，韩国抄日本，日本抄谁？抄美国。而且是抄很多年前的美国，因为美国现在已经基本不造船了。

请问葡萄：这些信息可以从哪搜到？我Google了“金门条约”。唯一的一篇出于你。

del

效果可能反而会好许多

这个就是真谛，可惜很多人还在做梦没醒过来呢。

一个流传甚广的神话，就是政治家全心全意为大众服务。

这个神话，即使在西西河仍然广泛流传并且被当作真理来吹捧。

有的人是没有堪破，这些人是因为阅历有限；

有的人是揣着明白装糊涂，碰到这个问题就绕开去——因为他们有求于人，所以只能装糊涂。

一战的时候，德国人知道美国伯力恒钢铁是供应英国的主要公司，所以德国人一狠心出巨额资金要将这家公司收购——当然当时美国还没有参战。

英国人破译了德国人的密码，知道了这个秘密。

于是他们也找上门去，要出大价钱购买伯力恒钢铁。

不过，最后谁也没有买到，但是美国人承诺继续支持英国人。