Chapter 504: The Veteran Goes to the Street
The life of the common people is already very sad, and the government actually has to raise taxes, which naturally makes it even worse. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Although the United States is still vast and sparsely populated, due to the early appearance, improvement and promotion of diesel tractors, the labor productivity of large farms is almost unlimited, and an agricultural worker can cultivate thousands of acres or even tens of thousands of acres of land, so it is natural that all arable land is occupied, and the urban poor can no longer find land to be cultivated, and more specialized and market-oriented agriculture requires higher skills. It's not as simple as before......
The United States has never had unemployment benefits or other social welfare, and it is all relying on the natural way of living to open up the land in the west so that the poor can ensure that no matter how difficult their lives are, they will not be cornered, but now this road has been blocked, and the US government, which is racking its brains to cut the budget, is obviously unlikely to introduce the unemployment benefit policy at this time. So you can imagine what a miserable life the poor in the United States are living today......
Well, strictly speaking, Americans still have a way to live, British Canada in the north is still attracting immigrants, and Chamberlain Sr. recently introduced a new policy that significantly shortens the tax years required for white immigrants to become British citizens to just five years, and as long as they are British citizens, even if they are unemployed, they can also receive food stamps that can ensure that a family of three will not starve to death. As a result, poor Americans flocked to Canada with their families, many of whom had just returned to the United States from Canada. Undoubtedly, this will make the recovery of the American population more difficult......
And even those who did not leave are resentful of this government, but as with many similar precedents in history, it is the government's budget cuts that directly trigger serious incidents.
What is the reduction in the budget? The biggest of these is undoubtedly the exorbitant military spending, although it is not really a complete rapprochement with China, after all, with a peace treaty, coupled with the protection of the Rocky Mountains, the impact of cutting military spending on national security is not too great. As for the formal negotiation of peace with the government of the Republic of Mexico, the end of the war that has actually been stopped by both sides, but which has been delayed until now for the sake of face, the Americans, who are tired of this senseless war, are fully supportive.
But the problem is that the compensation for veterans, especially the fallen martyrs and disabled veterans, has also been stabbed, which is a big stab!
During the Three Kingdoms War, in order to reverse the crisis, the U.S. government at that time introduced a series of welfare policies to ensure the lives of veterans and greatly increased the amount of pensions paid to the relatives of martyrs to increase the enthusiasm of soldiers. Although this has indeed achieved good results, greatly boosted the morale of US officers and men, especially ordinary soldiers, and successfully helped the United States turn the tide of the war, it has also inevitably put a huge financial burden on the US government.
You must know that the number of people who participated in the war in the United States during the Three Kingdoms War was not as small as the number of the Spanish-American Wars in the past, but as many as 7 million people (not counting the militias of various states), of which 1 million or hundreds of thousands were killed or missing, and 450,000 veterans were seriously disabled and completely incapacitated. It's no wonder that the new president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, wants to lighten up.
But how could Woodrow Wilson, who earns tens of thousands of dollars a year, understand the suffering of martyrs and disabled veterans? Although Theodore Roosevelt had promised a large amount of pensions and compensation, he cunningly adopted a long-term instalment payment of 50 years as a banker. This was nothing, but in the context of severe inflation caused by the over-issuance of dollars in the post-war period, this payment method was fatal, and the compensation that veterans and martyrs could really get in their hands shrank to only half, and it was not enough to make ends meet. And now there is only such a small amount of compensation that has to be drastically reduced? This is basically going to starve everyone to death!
Under their covert collusion and instigation, the surging public opinion quickly converged into a terrible torrent, and their actions were more targeted, and they directly found the real rulers of the United States, the bankers of Wall Street......
Almost overnight, hundreds of thousands of disabled veterans poured into New York with placards demanding immediate distribution of the remaining pensions and compensation, targeting Wall Street, the center of the American financial industry. Although the veterans did not carry weapons, it caused great psychological pressure on the gentlemen on Wall Street, and soon some so-called security guards from large conglomerates rushed to drive them away, but the veterans who had experienced a sea of corpses and blood were not timid and fearful, and the two sides soon had a verbal altercation, then a physical altercation, and then, those security guards who were actually private armies opened fire......
The comrades who fell in a pool of blood completely aroused the anger of the disabled veterans, who, despite their own defenses, rushed madly at the executioners who were shooting, and the executioners were frightened by the powerful veterans, and ran away with their heads in their arms, but before the veterans could celebrate the victory, they heard the familiar sound of machine gun fire, and for a while they saw flesh and blood flying......
The veterans retreated, they were not the Boxers who thought they were invulnerable, they all knew that it was impossible for flesh and blood to resist the Browning water-cooled heavy machine guns with almost constant firepower, not to mention that they were all disabled, and even their ability to work was basically lost, not to mention the more physically demanding battles?
But the matter did not end there, the death of the comrades-in-arms and the cruelty of the oligarchs completely angered many veterans who did not come to the parade, and under the tandem organization of some well-intentioned people, they soon also took to the streets, with more noise than before, and they all brought guns!
This time, hundreds of thousands of veterans who went to the streets not only had one, but almost all of them were standard rifles only in the army, and some people did not know where to get grenades, submachine guns, machine guns, and even mortars, and their targets were not only Wall Street in New York, but also important cities such as the capital Washington and Philadelphia......