George Bush’S Great America [EN]: Chapter 157

George W. Bush’s Great America – Episode 156

< Episode 156 >

When did it start, I wonder? When did people start dreaming of a stable life where they don’t screw up, rather than a glamorous one?

I think many people started thinking this way after experiencing economic hardships that shook their foundations. Conversely, it happened when those who had lived in poverty and destitution experienced an economic golden age.

The mindset of the poor is simple. This isn’t to demean them, but rather because they don’t have many choices to begin with.

Anyway, it’s usually one of two things: the first is to save as much as possible when they can earn. These people usually belong to the generation that was directly hit by the Great Depression, and they prioritize saving money without spending it, whether in a bank or a hidden space in a warehouse. Some even took it to the extreme and became survivalists.

The second is those called ‘YOLO.’ It’s an acronym for ‘You Only Live Once,’ and usually refers to people who ‘YOLO YOLO’ their way to an early grave. These people live from day to day. It’s not that they’re wrong.

For them, the problem is often whether the money they earn today will still be there tomorrow, or whether they’ll even wake up to see the light of day.

A similar example is the marshmallow test. Children born with a silver spoon in their mouths have the luxury [the financial security] to wait patiently because they know there is a tomorrow. But children who weren’t born with a silver spoon don’t easily trust others and eat the marshmallow because they know there is no tomorrow, or that it’s uncertain.

Anyway, these seemingly contradictory groups have one thing in common: the desire for a ‘stable life.’ Think about it. When ordinary people win the lottery, the first thing they want, regardless of nationality or race, is a ‘house.’

A house basically means a place to return to. If you’re in your right mind, you want a ‘stable life’ before anything else, no matter how much excitement you crave.

Except for a very few people who advocate for non-possession due to religious beliefs, money always seems to be not enough, no matter how much you have.

‘Charities’ are organizations that give hope to people living such unstable lives. They plant seeds of hope where the country’s reach doesn’t extend, and spread another hope from the sprouted hope. It is an international business to preserve the humanity born of human conscience, and the culmination of personality.

Of course, there are charities created by and for the upper class, but this should be considered an exception and never generalized. Anyway, philanthropists who donate to charities basically believe that the charities are clean, so they can generously share their wealth.

But now that belief is completely shattered like a glass window falling from a skyscraper.

“I am very sorry! I thought I was contributing to society by disposing of my property, but I was incompetent and only fattened the bellies of the privileged.”

As soon as Bush opened his mouth, dazzling flashes erupted from all directions. Although not captured by the cameras, hundreds of reporters or related people flock to every speech the president makes. Bush is now receiving hundreds of shutter salutes, and those shutter salutes have become a sharp sword flying towards America’s corrupt charities.

“Everyone! Your donations have been used in vain. In particular, it is truly regrettable that the data from the analysis agencies, which should have revealed integrity and innocence, were meticulously and thoroughly managed and manipulated.”

Someone said the pen is mightier than the sword? The social phenomenon that is happening now was the epitome of that.

“You bastards who are worse than beasts! Where did you spend the money donated for the children of Africa!”

“Real estate and yachts? Are you completely crazy? Give me back my money!”

People finally realized where the donation money was going. With the release of the ‘2002 Charity Survey Report,’ the castle in the sky created by the false certification and image management of professional public interest analysis agencies finally collapsed.

Since the United States is already called the home of lawsuits, the charities listed had to forcibly taste the bitter taste of lawsuits, whether large or small, without exception. Among them, some overate so much that their stomachs burst.

Needless to say, America’s charities were completely halved. And it’s truly interesting that even among charities, there weren’t only ‘real charities.’ Some were groups of fraudsters posing as charities for their own benefit. They were not real charities. In other words, they were uncertified organizations.

Of course, since their actions were all the same as those of some corrupt charities, it was particularly noteworthy that there was not much difference. Anyway, the important thing is that these crooks were also swept away by this huge social tsunami.

Not only that, but the analysis agencies had no choice but to close down completely. Even if they could somehow deal with rotten eggs flying in through the office windows, the story changes when a large and beautiful magnum bullet makes thick holes in the windows. If you value your body, shouldn’t you avoid it?

Of course, there were also offices that made a big killing at the very end. These people were basically lawyers or current lawyers, so they could appropriately extract money from the gunman who threatened them. Of course, they couldn’t extract as much as usual because of the current situation.

The important thing was that almost all of the charities that used donations improperly were destroyed, and therefore the remaining few charities had to somehow manage the areas they were in charge of. For example, the slums of Detroit.

Gangs openly roamed around with illegally modified firearms, and the back alleys where people were eating away at their lives with junk food made with poor-quality ingredients were beyond the reach of the government. Recently, they have somehow solved the problem of public order, but increasing the number of security forces does not prevent crime from happening, nor does it improve the lives of the slum residents.

Unlike other places, charities are not places where manpower is created immediately just because there is money. Real employees, not ordinary volunteers, must be skilled in all matters related to volunteering with the ‘right and beautiful personality’ option attached. Whether it’s field work or office work.

“I wondered what you were thinking when you donated 50 million dollars, but I guess the president is different for a reason.”

A fairly young reporter muttered from quite a bit behind the photo line. Considering that most of the reporters here are at least in their 30s because it takes a lot of experience and achievements for a reporter to advance in politics, especially in this position, his appearance was quite heterogeneous.

However, it wasn’t that he was particularly young-looking, and his appearance actually matched his age. The reason he was staying in the back line was because he didn’t have the experience like his appearance. The reason he was able to get here was purely thanks to having a good senior.

“You stupid bastard. That’s not the important thing.”

That senior, who was like the sky, rebuked his foolish junior who knew one thing but not two. Of course, the junior hated the senior’s confident expression, but he recognized and acknowledged that this senior had enough ability to be respected as a boss in the workplace.

Still, hating it is hating it, regardless of acknowledging it.

“The important thing is what that president is trying to gain from this.”

That was the problem. It was truly problematic that he always sounded plausible when he spoke, even though he would be incompetent if he didn’t.

“This kind of article is nothing more than a copy-and-paste gossip story that’s everywhere.”

“As expected of you, senior. Then you must have a guess, right?”

This was the problem. He had no idea why he suddenly broke the back of the charity. People basically move for profit, but he didn’t know what benefits the president could get from doing this.

He wouldn’t have stupidly said, ‘Hehe, I have so much money that I’m going to throw 50 million dollars into the gutter,’ and then suddenly started investigating because he felt like something was fishy, right? He went in to thoroughly destroy it. He must have attached the Secret Service, the CIA, the FBI, or even the federal police from before he donated the money.

Otherwise, the detail of the released report cannot be explained. It was written in detail how thoroughly it was circulated, even which serial number of banknotes was distributed from where and how. In fact, I couldn’t even imagine that doing this was possible.

Looking at the operation details, it resembled an operation to arrest counterfeiters or bank robbers. Of course, the details of the operation were not revealed in detail due to crime response, but isn’t the result ultimately like a stone tower created by accumulating and accumulating processes? If you trace the process in reverse, you can roughly get a sense of how it went by looking at the report released by the government, as you have been eating as a reporter.

“Wait a minute.”

That’s right. Reverse. The answer was seen by thinking in reverse.

‘What if the purpose from the beginning was to bring the charity under his influence?’

There is a weirdo in his newspaper company. A friend named Oliver, who pointed out just a few months ago that the current President George W. Bush is increasing his power more than necessary. Until then, he thought it was his delusion or excessive thinking, but looking at it again like this, he naturally became suspicious.

He seized the police to check the media, seized the media to check the police, and seized the hearts of citizens to check the police and the media. The Federal Assembly, which should have stopped this situation, was not waking up from the Chinese-made money cushion, and the US military, which was like the president’s limbs, was getting stronger day by day.

What if all of this was a prelude to long-term dictatorship?

What if he was trying to become America’s eternal sun, like Napoleon of revolutionary France, beyond dictatorship?

“Dictatorship. This is worth investigating further.”

The junior, who was watching the senior’s serious expression, looked at him with a somewhat pathetic expression. The problem was that the senior sometimes went off on a tangent or made a false step.

“Dictatorship? That’s too much of a thought, isn’t it?”

“Then what do you think?”

The junior pretended to think a little to boost the senior’s morale, and then answered like this.

“Isn’t it just because it was like taffy [a sticky situation] and he decided to sweep it all away?”

That’s right.