#政治参与

马斯克怒不可遏,究竟为何? 马斯克卸任DOGE部长,立马开怼川普的“大而美法案”。而且不吃不睡,连夜发推,跟去年大战民主党一个模式。 特斯拉前半年暴跌50%,就是因为他摻乎政治,现在刚消停几天,又招呼起来,于是,投资者纷纷吓尿,五天之内从361跌到321。 马斯克为什么这么气愤?不能说跟他自己的损失没关,包括电动车补贴取消、NASA预算收缩50%、Starlink招标动摇、急需的稀土缺货等等,但是,这些肯定还不是最主要的因素,最主要的是他真忍不住让美国国债暴雷美元崩溃,那样他所有的创造都会化为泡影。 川普总统的“大而美”真是戳了他的心眼子,实在受不了了。未来十年债务增加3.8万亿,增速一点不输于拜登,这让他这个效率部长脸往哪儿搁?他忙乎了一百多天,特斯拉市值掉了几千亿,承诺消减费用二万亿,结果两千亿也没落实,而且还得罪了各个部门,这种失败他哪受得了! 他与川普在减税上是一致的,都是市场化信徒,相信减税率能促增长,然后收到更多税额。但是,联邦的许多支出是刚性的,减不了,而川普还扩大了军费,这样一来,新增税额盖不住费用增长,所以还得扩大发债。 美国五十年来国债一路上扬,不论驴像,这条曲线从20度不断陡峭,如今已经超过50度了,这是末路狂奔。如果减债不从现在做起,结果将不可收拾。 这就是马斯克勃然大怒的原因。 川普本来希望通过减税、宽政、打压油价带动降息,多管齐下促进增长,他能做的都做了,但鲍威尔把持的美联储拒绝降息,尽管欧盟、日本已经多次降息,他能怎么办呢?只能提高债务上限,不然就会财务违约。 贝森特告诉他如果消减债务增速,GDP增速就会随之放缓,这是熄火的模式。这把川普吓住了,不增债就得增税,一样是绝路。又搞不定鲍威尔,只能继续快速增税,管不了马斯克的情绪了。 欧盟、台湾、日本的通胀率分别是1.9%、2.05%和3.6%,基准利率分别是2%、2%和0.5%,现在美国通胀率是2.3%,而基准利率4.25%-4.5%,显然存在接近两个点的下调空间,但鲍威尔就是按兵不动,借口关税战会导致通胀上扬,尽管已经被证伪。 “大而美法案”让马斯克暴怒,川普肯定也不满意,但他不得已。但愿马斯克的炮轰能够引起各方的关注,逼迫联储局尽快降息,这样就有理由朝保守主义方向修改法案。 参议院这关是关键。 钢铁侠太难了,既要发展企业,又要关心政治,能者多劳,累得掉蛋。
5个月前
以下就是反对设置“中共委员会”的联署信和联署团体: December 9, 2024 The Honorable Mike Johnson The Honorable Hakeem Jeffries Speaker Minority Leader U.S. House of Representatives U.S. House of Representatives H-232, The Capitol H-204, The Capitol Washington, DC 20515 Washington, DC 20515 Dear Speaker Johnson and Leader Jeffries: CC: Chairman John Moolenaar & Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi: We at Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC and the 52 undersigned organizations are writing to express our strong opposition to a reauthorization of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (Select Committee) in the upcoming 119th Congress. While we are clear-eyed about the legitimate national security and economic concerns with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – including but not limited to cybersecurity, intellectual property rights, and human rights abuses – we strongly believe that renewing the Select Committee would not effectively advance the shared goal of seriously addressing these issues.1 Instead, reauthorizing the Select Committee would only continue to specifically target an individual community in a manner that will lead to a rise in anti-Asian and anti-Chinese sentiment in this country at a time when Asian immigrants and Asian Americans are already especially vulnerable to racial profiling, discrimination, violence, and hate after the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the Select Committee’s formation in 2023, we have opposed a number of bills that it either has played an active role in developing or otherwise referred to as “critical pieces of legislation.”2 Most recently, during the problematically-dubbed “China Week,” the House voted on two bills despite vocal opposition, one of which would reinstate the now-defunct “China Initiative” – a program which used racial profiling to target Chinese immigrant and Chinese American scientists and accuse them of largely unsubstantiated claims of espionage – and another that recalls past efforts to use misguided claims of national security to hinder Asian immigrants and other marginalized communities from becoming land owners3 . 1 Messaging Guidance, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, February 27, 2024, . 2 Media Statement, The Select Committee on the CCP, “25 China Week Bills,” September 12, 2024, bills#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20DC%20%2D%20Chairman%20John%20Moolenaar,threats%20posed%20by%20t he%20Chinese. 3 Letter, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, “In Opposition of ‘China Week’ Framing,” September 11, 2024, ; Press Statement, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, “Stop AAPI Hate, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, Asian Scholar Forum Condemn U.S.-China Legislation Rooted in Xenophobia,” September 12, 2024, american-scholar-forum. 2 We have also expressed concern regarding Select Committee members’ consistent uses of fearmongering, hostile, and aggressive rhetoric when characterizing the U.S.-China relationship. For instance, a May 17, 2023 hearing covered the “economic warfare” of the CCP, notwithstanding the fact that witnesses were asked questions about intellectual property theft and exploitation of U.S. markets, rather than either country’s military or weaponry.4 Just a month later on June 18th. 2023, the Select Committee subjected all shipments from China to scrutiny when it requested records of Chinese-originating mail from the United States Postal Service for FY21 and FY22, adopting a blunt approach when it required narrow and deliberate action.5 Most recently in August 2024, Chairman Moolenaar spoke to the media about a largely imagined fear of CCP land purchases near American military bases.6 His appearance and comments doubled down on legislation that has too often been overly broad and not narrowly tailored, so as to threaten the civil rights and liberties of innocent individuals.7 Finally, it is also important to note that the House is already well equipped to address PRC- related concerns without reauthorizing the Select Committee. According to its own website, the Select Committee identifies multiple issues of interest, including TikTok, the Uyghur genocide, and the national defense, and yet they all clearly fall within the domain of permanent congressional committees that, unlike the Select Committee, have the authority to take action on legislative items. Given its overlapping topics of interest with other congressional committees, it is clear that the Select Committee is both unnecessary to advance critical U.S.-China legislation, and jurisdictionally redundant. Instead of reauthorizing a committee that perpetuates a harmful, zero- sum and adversarial framework and pours more fuel on existing racial animus, the House should redirect much-needed resources elsewhere. As leading civil society organizations across a spectrum of issues, we urge you to decline reauthorizing the Select Committee and chart a new course on U.S.-China relations, one that appropriately balances our country’s interests with the individual rights of Asian immigrants and Asian Americans. The downstream effects of reauthorization are clear for the AAPI community: discrimination and racial profiling, particularly against Chinese immigrants or Chinese Americans, who will be unwittingly caught in the crossfire through no fault of their own. We must remain nuanced and deliberate in our tone and language, especially when discussing these complicated global affairs with severe domestic consequences. Sincerely, 4 Press Release, The Select Committee on the CCP, “ICYMI: Select Committee on the CCP Fires Back at CCP’s Economic Warfare in Prime Time Hearing,” May 17, 2023, releases/icymi-select-committee-ccp-fires-back-ccps-economic-warfare-prime-time-hearing. 5 Letter, The Select Committee on the CCP, Gallagher, Comer Request Chinese Shipment Data from USPS Post Master, June 27, 2023, subsites/selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-06-27-letter-to-state-sta- agreement.pdf. 6 Press Release, The Select Committee on the CCP, “ICYMI: Moolenaar Joins NewsNation to Discuss the CCP’s Land Purchases, Flow of Fentanyl, and Authoritarian Alignment,” August 5, 2024, land-purchases-flow-fentanyl-and. 7 Press Release, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, “Historic Legal Battle Unveiled Against Discriminatory Florida Housing Law SB 264,” May 6, 2024, release/historic-legal-battle-unveiled-against-discriminatory-florida-housing-law-sb-264. 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