Weekly Address: America’s Resurgence is Real

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11. These tell a totally different story. I happened to come across both today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/opinion/your-waitress-your-professor.html

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Your Waitress, Your Professor
By BRITTANY BRONSON
DEC. 18, 2014

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http://therealnews.com/idirect.php?i=11839

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson on TRNN
October 3, 2014

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WILKERSON: No, it's not. The real economy in this country, though, has shrunken so dramatically since World War II--I show the stats to my students, and I usually use the CIA stats. I can't remember them precisely right now, but I can give you general idea. In 1945, we were about, oh, 25 percent or so services and about 60 percent or so what was called heavy, medium, or light industry, manufacturing mostly. It's completely the opposite today. It's about 11 to 12 percent manufacturing, and the latest stat--and this is a precise number from the CIA--76 percent services. So you don't have the same real economy, if you will, and you don't have the same GDP reflective of that real economy. And that's a very different economy to wage war under than the one we had when we entered World War II, for example. Very different. And you could say in some respects this shadow behind the power that makes money off war, period, no matter who's the belligerent, makes money off that volatility now, especially with computers that are able to assist them in doing so, like currency manipulation, for example, or just general speculation. With computers you can do it at lightning speed and you can do it in a nanosecond, and you can make billions in that nanosecond, and you don't care about what you're doing to the real economy, because you're raking in the dough.