Change until the world gives way to you

Chapter 4 Changing the world begins with changing yourself (3)
Day 29: On February 2, Obama signed the largest economic stimulus package in the history of the United States with a total of 17 billion U.S. dollars, taking the first step of the "Hundred Days New Deal". The $7870 billion goes into two chunks -- $7870 billion for government public spending and the remainder for tax cuts.Of the $5000 billion in public spending, $5000 billion is used for health care at the state and local levels, $1150 billion is used to improve educational facilities, vocational training, etc., $1000 billion is used for infrastructure such as roads and railways, and $800 700 million for energy and environmental protection, nearly 600 billion for state and local government public expenditure, 500 billion for unemployment relief, 200 billion for technology research and development, and the rest for residential construction; the investment in tax cuts is also divided For several parts, $1162 billion will be used to subsidize Americans with annual incomes below $7.5 or household incomes below $15, $698 billion for the "alternative minimum tax" for the middle class, and $320 billion for Tax cuts for enterprises, and the rest will be used for tax credits for children and tax credits for individual house purchases and car purchases.This is a plan with Obama-style idealism: it should not only help the weak and the poor, but also stimulate the economy.The United States has entered a new period of changing the economic growth mode and life style.

Day 59: On March 3, the Federal Reserve announced that it would purchase US$19 billion of long-term treasury bonds within the next six months, which opened the prelude to the depreciation of the US dollar, threatening China and other countries that hold large US dollar assets. This has further changed the possibility of continuing to maintain the hegemony of the US dollar.In the next two weeks, China, the European Union, and Russia alternately voiced their voices, calling for the reform of the US dollar-dominated international monetary system and the end of the era of US dollar dominance; the super-sovereign reserve currency proposed by the governor of the People’s Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, was also supported by Australia. As well as the support of Brazil, India, Argentina and other emerging market countries and Nobel Prize winner Stig.Backed by a UN advisory board led by Litz.Obama did not hesitate to defend the US dollar hegemony system, and at the G3000 summit in London, he avoided possible attacks from member states with a low-key attitude.Nevertheless, the discussion on the super-sovereign international reserve currency is still put on the agenda of the G20 summit meeting in Japan in September.The world economic system has been accustomed to the rule of the US dollar for more than 9 years, and has entered a long period of torture along with the Obama era.

Day 67: On March 3, Obama held talks at the White House with executives from 27 major banks, including Bank of America, Citibank, Freddie Mac, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase.Previously, Obama had been harsh on Wall Street, and Wall Street has often embarrassed the new president at critical moments.The meeting achieved a reconciliation between Obama and finance capital.In the previous two months, Obama had not consulted with financial capital when making any major decisions.The talks immediately received a positive response from the bankers.Wells Fargo CEO John Stump said he would stand in "solidarity" with the administration.This time, Obama changed himself - he realized that being hostile to financial capital would not help the US economic recovery.The change in relations with Wall Street will help the Obama administration's public-private partnership plan and optimize its regulatory mandate.

Day 88: On April 4, at the opening ceremony of the Summit of the Americas, Obama made a move that surprised the whole world: he walked up to his "rival" Venezuelan President Chavez and greeted him in Spanish. Shaking hands, Obama also patted Chavez on the shoulder.Chavez told the media that he also told Obama in English, "I want to be your friend" and "thanks him for doing so." "This is the Obama administration's clever diplomacy concept," said Jin Canrong, a professor at the School of International Relations at Renmin University of China. In terms of diplomacy, the practice of sweeping the envelope is different, so that the hard power and soft power of the United States can be used well at the same time, while the previous government was too focused on the use of hard power.Dr. Kejin Zhao from the Center for Sino-US Relations at Tsinghua University also believes that Obama's move "has changed the tough style of unilateralism of the Bush administration, and he has learned to let go of his posture and listen to other people's voices."

"The U.S. government has never been so humble," Zhao Kejin said.Obama is changing the diplomatic tradition of the United States in recent years. At the same time, he is also "recycling" its strategic competitors in a gentle way-such as China's influence areas.Obama not only changed the United States, but also changed himself, but I don't know if the change is comic. "Whether the change can really have an effect depends on his subsequent power base structure. Only when there are more people who stand on his side in the game between him and Congress, the change will really happen." According to British media reports on the 45th , 48-year-old Obama's hair began to turn gray.

The first black president of the United States has withstood all kinds of suppression and won the votes of many American citizens in his constant speeches.We will never forget the big conglomerates behind him, but more importantly, such a black president used his skin color to prove that black is no longer an inferior color, that miracles can happen, and that changing oneself is It will change America, and maybe the world.A person is very small, but at the same time he is great. The words in Obama's speech are worthy of every one of us saying silently in our hearts, no, saying it out loud with our mouths: "Yes, We can".

If you don't have a thorough understanding of Obama's four changes, then let me tell you about Obama's journey along the way, which may resonate with you even more.

From Biracial to Harvard Ph.D.
Barack Hussein Obama, whose full name is Barack Hussein Obama, was born on August 1961, 8 in Honolulu, Hawaii.His father, Barack Sr., was born in a pastoral family in Nyanza Province, western Kenya, and his mother, Shirley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas.In his 4 memoir, "Dreams From My Father," Obama wrote of his childhood memories: "My father was nothing like the people around me—his skin was as black as pitch, and my mother was as white as milk. "

Obama's mother, Ann, met Barack Sr., who was 11 years older than her in the Russian language class at the University of Hawaii.They secretly married in Maui without telling their classmates and friends. Ann, who was only 18 years old, was already pregnant with Obama for 3 months.When his son was not yet one year old, Barack Sr. left his wife and son to go to Harvard to study for a Ph.D. in economics.After graduation, he returned to China with another American woman and his third wife, Ruth, and became an economist for the Kenyan government.

The father left, and the teacher's mother soon remarried a foreign student from Indonesia, Roro Sutoro, and gave birth to a daughter, Maya.When Obama was 6 years old, he was taken to Indonesia by his mother and stepfather.In the Catholic elementary school in Jakarta, Obama did not care about the teasing of his classmates and the nickname "nigger". He learned to eat tofu and tempeh, play football with his classmates, and climb trees to pick guavas.He also learned Bahasa Indonesia and is proud of the "Little United Nations" family he and his sister have.

At age 10, Obama suffered another blow when his mother divorced his stepfather, but his mother remained in Indonesia to continue her fieldwork dissertation for a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Hawaii.Obama was sent back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents.Obama's grandfather fought in World War II and became a furniture salesman after leaving the army.Grandma Madeleine is now in her 80s and still lives in Honolulu.She only went to high school, but she was extremely capable, from secretary to vice president of the Bank of Hawaii.In order to make up for the misfortune suffered by her grandson Obama, Madeleine sent him to Punahou, the best large private school in Honolulu.Among the 1200 students in the school, there are only 3 African-Americans, and Obama is one of them.He started in grade 5 and continued through grade 12, graduating in 1979.

In middle school, Obama, who began to understand the world, was troubled by his mixed-race identity.To regain his confidence, he boasted that his father was a prince from an African country.And when his biological father finally came to Hawaii from Africa to visit him one day and was invited to give a speech at his school, Obama sat among the classmates listening to the speech. He buried his head deeply and felt very humiliated.It was the first and last time Obama saw his biological father before he was two years old in a car crash in 1982.

Feeling lost, Obama wandered the beaches and streets of Hawaii, skipped school, and even smoked marijuana and cocaine to "get the question of 'who am I' out of my head."The bohemian and handsome Obama fell in love with a beautiful girl at the age of 17, but he still often cheats on his girlfriend behind his back.At a prom before graduating from high school, he actually dumped his long-time girlfriend and dated another 15-year-old white girl with lightning speed.When Obama appeared in front of everyone one night with his new girlfriend in his arms, almost everyone was stunned.After that, the extremely excited two went directly to the hotel to open a room!But not long after, the underage girl was also abandoned. "I was every teacher's nightmare in middle school, and no one knew what to do with me," Obama recalled in his autobiography.

After graduating from high school, Obama first studied at "Occidental College" in California for two years, and then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with an emphasis on international relations.After earning his Bachelor of Arts in 1983, Obama spent a year working in an international business firm. In 1985, he moved to Chicago and became a community organizer with an annual salary of only 1.3 US dollars, responsible for cooperating with Chicago churches on charitable activities.During this period, he led a non-profit plan to assist the local church in organizing vocational training for poor residents and helping unemployed workers settle their livelihoods.Obama still believes that this is the best training he has ever received. He later characterized this period of time as a kind of "root-seeking" spiritual awakening, and later joined the pastor Jeremiah Wright. Trinity United Church of Christ.

After working as a volunteer in Chicago for three years, Obama entered Harvard Law School and was elected as the first African-American editor-in-chief in the 3-year history of Harvard Law Review, the most authoritative law magazine in the United States, one year before graduation.It was the highest honor among all 104 students at the talented Harvard Law School, and Obama received national recognition for the first time. In 1600, Obama received a "superior" degree in law from Harvard.But Obama still retains some of the rebelliousness of his early days when he was a Harvard Law School student.He received a total of 1991 tickets for parking violations, but he was only willing to pay two.He didn't decide to pay the bills until two weeks before he was due to run for president after 17 years.

After returning to Chicago with the aura of Harvard, Obama chose to work in a law firm specializing in civil rights litigation. He worked as a "poor attorney" for many years, and in 1992 he met a young man who had previously met at another law firm as an intern. 4-year-old lawyer Michelle married and gave birth to two daughters.Michelle was born in a worker's family in Chicago. After graduating from high school, she was admitted to Princeton University and later to Harvard Law School. She is now the deputy director of the University of Chicago Medical Center.From 1993 to 2004, Obama also taught constitutional law part-time at the University of Chicago Law School.In other words, the Obamas have gathered the aura of Princeton and other four prestigious schools, and their degree of elitism is no less than that of the Clintons.

The road to politics step by step
奥巴马回到芝加哥后指导了一次选民登记活动，这直接导致该市19个非洲裔选区的选民登记人数第一次超过了19个主要白人选区，黑白选民人数比达到67.6万比52.6万。有50多万在芝加哥的非洲裔1992年11月去投票，从而改变了芝加哥的选举形势。奥巴马因此被当地杂志誉为“一颗政治新星”。

After three years of legal practice and civic action, Obama decided it was time to dive into electoral politics.In order to create a selling point and "wash away" the stains of drug use and promiscuity in his early years, he carefully concocted a memoir - "Father's Dream".In the book, Obama devises an old-fashioned "discovery of self" story that ends with the prodigal son returning.Obama once told his friends that his favorite quote about the civil rights movement is: "You can't wear a crown if you can't bear a cross." He wrote this book to accumulate political capital for himself.

A civil rights lawyer, teacher, philanthropist and autobiographer, Obama said he entered politics to promote community organizing.His campaign for the Illinois Senate in 1996 was brilliant, albeit shallow.During the Democratic primary, Obama questioned the validity of signatures on ballot petitions signed by three of his opponents, including a longtime Chicago activist and state senator who wanted to sit back after a failed bid for the U.S. Senate. They were all forced out, so that Obama automatically became the nominee for the 3th District, which has a large concentration of Democratic voters.That cleared the way for Obama's campaign. In 13, the 1996-year-old Obama was elected to the Illinois State Assembly by a large margin from the Hyde Park district of Chicago's 35th district and was re-elected two years later.

Obama then targeted the House of Representatives seat in Illinois's First District, which had the highest electoral rate of African Americans at the time.An African-American Democratic politician named Bobby Rush, who had occupied this position for eight years, had just suffered a disastrous defeat in the springfield mayoral election in early 8, and he did not even receive the support of the African-American group.Obama decided to challenge Rush in the 1999 House general election.Originally, Obama hoped to win the support of Springfield Mayor Dairy who defeated Rush, but he did not expect to hit a soft nail.Later, the then President Clinton also made an exception and announced his support for Rush, and Rush’s son was shot dead before the vote, which also won him a large number of sympathy votes. As a result, although Obama received 2000% of the vote with 10% popularity and won the white vote , but Rush won 31% of the total votes with a 2:1 advantage.In the African-American constituency, Obama was defeated by a 61:1 disadvantage.This made him almost bankrupt, and even a Chicago political reporter asked on the radio: "Is Obama dead?" But in 4, Obama was re-elected for the third time as an Illinois senator.

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