Chapter 614

It would be fine if it was just that the United States was in a bad situation at home, because the United States is a presidential and not a parliamentary country. In the struggle for power with the parliament, the president still has the initiative and the first move.

But Li Xuan knew that there was still a huge pit waiting for Bush Sr. next year -- the Gulf War. Against the backdrop of a high government deficit and a deteriorating economy, is it really appropriate to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to wage a war?

Yes, the Gulf War allowed the United States to regain the military self-confidence it had lost since the Korean-Korean War and the Vietnam War, stabilized the dollar oil system, and laid the foundation for the global expansion of the United States throughout the nineties after the collapse of the Soviet Union. So from the perspective of the long-term interests of the United States, this is a war in which the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

However, this war caused Bush Sr. to lose his presidency! You must know that among the previous US presidents, there are actually very few people who have not been successfully re-elected.

The one who had such a tragic experience before Bush was Carter, who was dragged down by the Iranian hostage incident in '79. A large number of U.S. citizens have been kidnapped in their embassies, and the government has been slow to rescue them. Angry American voters decided to change the president, so they cheapened Reagan!

The unlucky guy before Carter was Hoover, and his situation was almost identical to that of Bush Sr. today! Coolidge's problems of boom accumulation exploded in 1929. The unprecedented Great Depression ruined Hoover, but it made Roosevelt's supreme prestige.

Clinton said, "Stupid, the problem is the economy." Is Bush Sr. really stupid enough to not understand what the core issue is? Even if he is stupid, is the think tank behind him just as blind?

Actually, Bush Sr. is not stupid, he just has no other choice! You took a large amount of dollars from the oil giants and the military-industrial consortium during your election campaign, and now the financiers are demanding returns, what reason do you have to shirk it!

Therefore, although Li Xuan has become closer and closer to the Bush family, he will never go to Bush Sr. to point out the maze and say, "Don't go to the Middle East to fight a war next year, it's better to save hundreds of billions of military dollars to revitalize the domestic economy!"

What Li Xuan really needs to do is to try his best to grab enough benefits for himself before Bush Sr. steps down, so he should promote the development of the Internet in the United States as soon as possible. Regardless of whether Bush Sr. can be re-elected, Li Xuan still has at least a two-year buffer period, which is enough for him to do a lot of things.

Of course, the ideal state is that Bush Sr. can be successfully re-elected, but in line with the principle that eggs cannot be put in the same basket, Li Xuan naturally has to make some other plans in advance.

For example, another Mr. President, who invested in the Bush family in advance. George W. Bush should be said to have been cheated by his father this time. He had already announced his candidacy for gubernatorial this year in a high-profile manner last year, and had the full support of the entire Texas Republican Caucus.

For example, Clayton Williams, a billionaire farmer from South Texas, was originally interested in running for the Republican nomination for Texas governor. But after the Republican leadership coordinated and appeased, he ran for George W. Bush's current position as Texas land commissioner instead.

On the contrary, the Democratic Party has been fighting for the governor's nomination in March and April. As the only candidate for governor nominated by the Republican Party, George W. Bush originally planned to sit on the hill and watch the tiger fight, but unfortunately the Democratic Party was obviously not prepared to let him be too leisurely.

A large number of people in Texas who are dissatisfied with the Republican Party and Bush Sr.'s achievements in administration have begun to vent their dissatisfaction on Bush Jr. under the deliberate guidance of certain forces. This made Bush Jr.'s originally bullish campaign market begin to become confusing.

Of course, Bush Jr.'s campaign team is not a dry meal, and apart from frantically fanning the flames among several Democratic Party candidates and providing all kinds of black material, Bush Jr. has not carefully formulated a set of ingenious campaign strategies.

As the saying goes, there are no fathers and sons in the political arena, and since Bush Sr. may affect his son's election, he should simply cut a position between father and son. Since Bush Sr. is holding high "small government" in the White House and wants to cut government spending, Bush Jr. has done the opposite!

Under the two-party system, the American-style democratic-democratic and Republican and democratic-democratic parties seem to be very lively, but in fact the biggest difference between the two parties is only two words -- tax rates! The Republican Party's consistent practice since coming to power has been to cut taxes, but how can the government maintain its daily operating expenses after the tax cuts? If there is no money, it can only reduce the size of the government, and this is the origin of "small governmentism"!

And when the Democrats come to power, they raise taxes, and they tell voters that tax cuts will save each rich person far more tax dollars than the poor at the same rate. Therefore, the Republican Party is a party of the rich who rob the poor and help the rich, while the Democratic Party, which represents the poor, must raise taxes on the rich hard. Overcharged taxes are used to expand the power of the government, so as to better monitor the rich from exploiting the poor.

So to some extent, the Republican and Democratic fundamentals are very stable, and the choices between the rich and the poor are very clear. The only thing that is more ambiguous is the middle class sandwiched between the two, so the elections of the Republic of China are among the middle voters who compete for these swings!

As a Republican, Bush Jr. has some bottom lines that he cannot touch -- raising taxes will only make him lose his originally solid fundamentals! As for other aspects, he is not unavoidable.

The Mr. Bill Hyland, who is now sitting in front of Li Xuan, is the chief writer of the "middle-of-the-road" campaign strategy that George W. Bush has just decided. He created a campaign platform for George W. Bush that was different from that of traditional Republicans.

Through the active budget, we will help the upgrading and transformation of backward industries in Texas and promote the rapid growth of emerging industries. By expanding government transfers, we will further promote educational equity, protect vulnerable groups, and fight crime!

At first glance, this is the platform of a Republican?

It's just that if you want to expand fiscal spending without raising taxes, where will the money come from? Fortunately, the current governor of Texas, Mr. Clements, is a traditional conservative Republican. Although Texas' economic development in recent years has not been very good, the state's finances have basically remained healthy.

This leaves a lot of room for Bush Jr. to maneuver after his victory -- borrowing debt. If the state finances are also running high deficits like the current federal finances, then Bush Jr. will not have a chance to learn from Reagan. So in this respect, George W. Bush is much luckier than his father!

Of course, the premise of all these beautiful fantasies is that George W. Bush can be successfully elected governor of Texas!

"Mr. Lee, your close relationship with George is well known, and the Democrats have taken the opportunity to mislead the public into thinking about money and power trading! In fact, as early as two years ago, during the old presidential campaign, someone poured this kind of dirty water on the old president.

If we don't respond in a timely and correct manner, under the constant propaganda of the Democratic Party, lies may also be taken as truth, which will be very bad for us! And for this kind of problem, it is inconvenient for George to come forward to clarify, so we need to use you to tell the truth to the public!" Bill Hyland said to Li Xuan seriously.

"No problem, I can cooperate with your arrangement! The false crime of money and power trading is also a great damage to my reputation and that of the Eastern Bloc!

We are very willing to clarify to the public that if some media continue to create malicious slander out of nothing, neither I nor the Eastern Group would mind having legal counsel accompany each other to familiarize themselves with the sentencing standards for defamation!"

Li Xuan nodded with a smile, and then continued, "But as for the timing of the clarification, I personally feel that it is necessary to think about it carefully, and it can't be too deliberate!"

By the way, I accepted the invitation of the University of Texas at Austin to have an interview with the students. If anyone raises my doubts in this regard, I think it's a great opportunity!"