Chapter 1803 General Black (Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket!!! Please Subscribe!!!)
When your boss asks you if you can handle it, what would you say as a subordinate?
One of the scoring situations is disbelief, distrust in the abilities of subordinates.
One is to ask casually, which does not make much sense.
Another way is to know the situation and the unspoken rules. The meaning of his question is not about that matter, but about you.
What it means is that if something goes wrong in this matter, will it implicate him if you don't back it up?
The chief of staff is Benjamin's confidant... This position can only be filled by confidants.
The chief of staff was very clear about Benjamin's needs and concerns, so he knew what Benjamin meant when he asked: "Don't worry, we'll take care of everything."
There is something called white gloves!
This thing has formed an industrial chain in Washington. Let me tell you the fact that in the United States, politicians are very rich!
The United States has an electoral political system. Congress consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The House of Representatives is the lower chamber and the Senate is the upper chamber. The House of Representatives has a total of 435 members, determined by the population of each state. Then the Senate is composed of fifty states, each state has two people and one hundred people, a total of 535 people. These 535 people are elites from all walks of life in the United States. However, since the United States has an electoral system and has multiple parties, apart from other factors, the election is actually a marketing competition.
Starting from the bottom, starting from the grassroots, you need to let your neighbors, let your community, let the people around you know you. The usual methods are to publish your relevant campaign speech in a newspaper, give a speech on TV, or let everyone know who you are by mail or letter. Then this kind of campaign process and marketing process all require costs. And this cost is at least millions. When you reach the parliamentary stage, you usually have a campaign team. The campaign team has people who specialize in strategic planning, marketing, and media communication. This campaign team is also equivalent to the operation of a company, so there will be costs related to company operations. And even if it spends so much money, it does not mean that it can be elected.
During the election process, even if money is spent, there is a lot of uncertainty. The United States is a business-based society, including business, which is also based on public consumption. Therefore, most Americans can engage in political work only if they have both money and leisure, and they must be very interested in political work or the public management system. Only when these three points are met can we develop in the political field.
This election is not easy. It should be said that it is a social superstructure. You need to have sufficient underlying foundation and sufficient experience in public management to gradually accumulate. Only by accumulating over time can you gradually rise to the top. The top level of the entire social management. So it is a very difficult thing. You need to have both money and leisure. This is a requirement of American congressmen.
The average net worth of U.S. congressmen is around 7.5 million to 8 million U.S. dollars, and they belong to the upper class elite of the United States.
In short, poor people should not even think about the job of being a politician. It won’t be your turn!
So this raises another question: Why do a group of wealthy people with money and leisure come out to participate in politics?
Don't tell me specifically that it's to serve the people... No, right? No way? Does anyone really believe it?
America is a business society!
The entire society follows business logic. Every time they run for election, they invest a huge amount of money. These are all costs, so... if there is a cost, there must be a return!
So what's the reward?
In a business society, the most intuitive reward is money!
But after all, he is a politician, and he cannot be too naked when making money.
This is about the famous "revolving door" politics. The so-called "revolving door" is a top-level system design in the United States, which aims to provide assistance to officials who have held positions in the government, allowing those who worked for companies or companies while in office to Senior officials who have contributed to interest groups, spoken, signed, and enacted laws are in Qingdao After Chunhe's struggle, being able to comfortably obtain a high-paying position in a company in a related industry is like opening an "automatic revolving door" on the wall of the solid and reliable anti-corruption system between the government and enterprises, allowing people to be "big and small flies" every day. Corrupt foreign officials trembling in the shadow of the anti-corruption campaign were shocked.
(Since 2022, dozens of former Armed Services Commission and Defense Department officials have obtained similar positions in corporate "Government Affairs Departments" through the "revolving door", continuing to persuade their colleagues to embark on the road of common prosperity. 2001 At the beginning, more than 2,700 officials in the military industry alone used the "revolving door" to turn around and continue to fight for the welfare of the defense industry. In contrast, the first quarter report of the military industry sector continued to be exciting, and the quarterly report of the leading manufacturers had to be described as "strong." "Two words to describe it.)
"In politics, there are two things that are very important. The first is money, and the second I don't remember." This is the experience of Mark Hanna, a campaign expert who helped William McKinley win the presidential election twice more than 100 years ago. talk". Nowadays, this sentence is still quoted frequently by the media during every U.S. election. Because, compared with more than a century ago, the nature of money politics in American democracy has not changed at all.
In American democracy, money is supreme. Power comes from money and serves money. The so-called "freedom, democracy, and human rights" in the mouths of American politicians are nothing more than a fig leaf for the elite to cover up their own privileges. Ordinary people are blinded and restricted by the carefully designed and black-box political mechanism and are excluded from the power system. The elite class, relying on financial resources, influences national policies and the distribution of benefits through various means such as campaign donations, political lobbying, and the "revolving door" between politics and business.
Every time there is a presidential election or a handover of power between the two parties, a large number of resigned government officials will go to the private sector to serve as executives and receive high salaries. Many of them join the lobbying industry and use their personal connections to seek benefits. Once their party returns to power, many senior business people will enter the government department, and their power scope will sometimes directly cover the industry where the original company is located. The American media criticized that as an inevitable byproduct of the American political tragedy, the existence of the "revolving door" provides a convenient door for collusion between officials and businessmen, breeding a lot of corruption. In 2009, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released a report saying that the "revolving door" phenomenon is very obvious in the US financial sector, which makes it difficult for the government to strictly regulate financial institutions and has become an important cause of the 2008 international financial crisis.
In his book "The Power Elite", American sociologist Charles Wright Mills pointed out that the American "power elite" who go in and out of the "revolving door" manipulate the state machinery and have various privileges. They are closely connected in the fields of economy, politics, and military, and hold the power of decision-making. No wonder former US President Carter once lamented that "American democracy is dead, replaced by oligarchy."
And this is just the primary way to play. The real way to play is actually white gloves!
After all, the revolving door must be rotated!
Many members of Congress are like hereditary officials. The father does it, the son does it, and then it's the grandson's turn.
The whole family goes to "serve" the country, who will make money?
At this time, white gloves appear. They serve these dignitaries and help them take care of anything. Remember, it's anything!
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Later, this method began to appear in more places. For example, what should the CIA do if it is short of funds?
Find white gloves!
Many drug dealers are actually CIA's "undercovers". They also sell drugs, but the proceeds from drug trafficking are shared with the CIA!
These people are white gloves.
There are even more exaggerated ones. Do you remember Colonel Stryker?
He is also a white glove.
The white gloves of some people in the government and the military.
Their role is not to make money, but to isolate danger.
What Stryker did could not be led by the government or the military. After all, this thing can be done, but it must not be said. Once leaked, it will cause great turmoil in the political arena and affect the government's credibility.
So although Stryker has great power, it seems that anyone can command and everything can be done.
But in fact, he is just a retired military officer and has no relationship with the government and the military. At least in the government and military files, he is not employed by any government agency.
He has achieved results, which are naturally the government's.
Once he goes wrong and is exposed. Then he is a criminal, and his actions have nothing to do with the government!
This is the role of white gloves!
The chief of staff thought about it a long time ago.
What, someone is doing research in private?
It has absolutely nothing to do with the government!
Huh?
Captain Marvel's cells leaked out, it's definitely the fault of the security guards!
Fired!
Then nothing happened to the government!
As for whether it will cause damage to the people... well, this has never been a concern of these politicians.
You can refer to the politicians in Japan next door, who directly let people over 60 years old commit hara-kiri... The United States is almost the same. They don't care about the poor. After all, it is a consumable, and it is a consumable that is very easy to replace.
You know, there are a lot of illegal immigrants in the United States, but the United States does not strictly check this.
Many illegal immigrants live and work in the United States, but neither the tax bureau nor the immigration bureau will pay too much attention to it. Just a little bit every year is enough.
But there are many more illegal immigrants in the United States than you think!
It is said that there are 10 to 20 million!
Well, then, why doesn't the US government crack down on these illegal immigrants?
Because of human rights?
Don't be funny, anyone with a normal mind knows that the United States never cares about human rights!
The reason why the US government does not clean up these illegal immigrants is that they are used as consumables at most!
In fact, the US government hates those lower-class people very much... not immigrants, they like illegal immigrants very much. What they don't like is the poor, those poor people with American identity, after all, they want welfare, have votes, and there are laws that stipulate minimum wages and welfare benefits.
Capitalists don't like them.
Illegal immigrants are so good, they can be exploited as much as they want, and they can be fired directly if they are unhappy, and there will definitely be no unions to cause trouble.
They are much more useful than those poor people.
If possible, those upper-class people really want all the poor people in the United States to die... Okay, it's exaggerated, after all, the poor also need to consume, and if they consume, they can make money. But if they really care about those poor people, they are definitely thinking too much.
They don't worry about how many people die, anyway, there will be a steady stream of immigrants to replenish them.
They don't care about the lives of ordinary people at all, so Nick Fury is not an exception, but... Nick Fury is more extreme.
"Then get it done!"
Benjamin nodded.
……
Just when the conspiracy was going on in the White House.
Something happened to the Little Overlord.
They were attacked by airstrike!
This is very interesting. As one of the countries with the strongest air force, the Little Overlord's airspace is very safe, but there was no sign before the Little Overlord was attacked by airstrike!
The Little Overlord is still very concerned about the safety of its airspace. In order to ensure the safety of its airspace, the Little Overlord has built a very complete three-dimensional air defense system. With a small land area, it is difficult to withstand large-scale missile attacks. Therefore, the Little Overlord attaches great importance to the construction of the air defense system and has a four-layer anti-missile defense system.
There are four layers of air defense and anti-missile systems. The bottom layer is the "Iron Dome" system; the next layer is the "David Sling"; the next layer is the "Arrow-2" anti-missile system. The interception height is generally believed to be about 100 kilometers, and the interception distance is also about 100 kilometers. It mainly targets medium- and short-range ballistic missiles; the next layer is the "Arrow-3" anti-missile system. The interception height can reach the height of the satellite, and the interception distance is estimated to be about 2,000 kilometers. It can intercept some medium- and long-range ballistic missiles.
Generally speaking, even if it is an attack, the losses can be minimized.
But the problem is... the air strike went very smoothly.
All major airports of the Little Overlord were attacked, and the losses were very heavy.
There was no warning or alarm before!
After the incident, the Little Overlord government did not respond!
Many reporters who wanted to find news did not know who to find.
In fact, the top leaders of the Little Overlord were also in a mess.
"You said they all rebelled? ! ! Impossible! Absolutely not!!!" This is a senior Air Force official.
"Then how do you explain their behavior? They came back to the country in a swagger and bombed their own country! Including their own air force base?!!"
A senior government official could no longer hold back and directly criticized the senior air force officials!
It turned out that just now, the F35 that had lost contact before finally responded and they were returning.
The air force was relieved about this. Although they had money, this was the F35, which was considered the most advanced fighter in the world. If all of them were out of service, it would still be a big blow to the Little Overlord. This was not only the loss of high-tech weapons, but also the impact on national morale!
However, just after they returned to the airspace, they immediately launched attacks on major airports and military bases in the country... It has to be said that for the first time, the Little Overlord people knew that their own weapons were really powerful!
The losses were huge, and what was worse was the loss of the air force base. Many fighters were destroyed while still on the ground.
Although the specific losses have not yet been counted, according to estimates, at least 300 fighters have been completely written off... This does not include collateral losses and losses that have not yet been counted.
It hurts a lot!
The weather has been really terrible lately. It's been over 20 degrees these past two days, and it's dropping again at night. It may even drop to zero tomorrow... It's too tiring. I feel like I'm going to catch a cold again.