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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.

最新一期的美国《时代》周刊题为《国家梦魇——为什么如此多的美国人吐槽？》的文章称，一说到美国的社会问题，美国的主流媒体常提到“财富不平等”这样的字眼。他们讳莫如深的是——美国日益扩大的贫富差距只是问题的症状，而非根源。真实原因是工资不再与生产效率挂钩。两者之间的关系因尼克松废除金本位制而被永久性地改变了。当局大肆印钞以迎合强势群体，尤其是银行的需要。

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《华盛顿邮报》一篇题为《为什么其他国家政府不关门》的文章称,像加拿大和孟加拉等受英国议会制度影响的国家都设有特定的机制来规避美国式的僵局。这些国家的预算问题更多地与当权派自身的政治命运有关联，故最终往往以达成一致而结束。