The financial system is collapsing, the stock market is crashing, and retirement funds are evaporating. The auto industry verges on extinction. Home prices have spiraled downwards. Gas prices recently were the highest they have ever been. Jobs are being lost rapidly and unemployment is shooting up. Healthcare costs are reducing some to bankruptcy and even death. Wages are not keeping up with inflation, which until recently has been increasing rapidly. There is fear of a second great Depression. What in the world is happening? 金融体系正逐步瓦解，股市即将触底，退休基金也在蒸发流失。汽车工业濒临消亡的边缘。房价呈现螺旋式下降，近期油价达到了历史最高点。人们很快便丢失了工作，失业人数骤升。医疗保健费用不断缩减殆尽。直到最近，通货膨胀才开始加速，使得薪资水平跟不上通胀上涨速度。人们开始担忧第二次大萧条的到来，想知道这一切到底是怎么一回事？ The answer is simple: Our government is sabotaging the economy. These, and most other economic maladies, are human-made. Specifically, in its attempts to “help” us, the government has managed and regulated the economy and passed laws that sounded constructive, but in fact hurt the economy and us. Political e