blackstone code

Chapter 1436 Choice
"How much do you think we will spend on this campaign?"

Mr. Truman asked a question that everyone was curious about, and that was how much it cost to run for president.

As a core supporter of the governor and the president, Lynch has the right to read part of the cost details. He is interested in these and knows more or less.

"First of all, we need to print posters for you. There are more than 20 cities in the Federation that need our promotion. Based on 4000 posters per city, this requires at least [-] million posters."

"The good news is that there are printing houses that specialize in this job. They can reduce the cost to a suitable range. Printing posters costs about 400 million to 600 million, depending on our needs."

"If the paper and paint need to be better, the price will naturally be higher, but if we don't pursue too good effects, the price can be reduced a lot."

Mr. Truman frowned when he heard this part. There is only so much money for printing posters, so what about posting posters?

Lynch seemed to see his worry, and took the initiative to explain, "There is a special company responsible for putting up posters. We only need to send the posters and choose a stall plan, and they will help us complete it."

"It's much cheaper and much more than if we had to find someone to put up the posters ourselves!"

He accentuated his tone a little, and it made Mr. Troumann realize that there was something behind it.

He asked softly, "Illegal immigrant?"

Lynch nodded.

In fact, many illegal immigrants enter the federal government through various channels every day. Those who have no entry records and official permission are illegal immigrants.

Commonwealth Natives have a lot of dissatisfaction with illegal and legal immigrants, who they always think are taking their jobs.

Coupled with the low demand of immigrants for work benefits and benefits, many capitalists always feel that they are giving workers enough now and are unwilling to increase their benefits and benefits.

There are some core contradictions. If these contradictions are not resolved, the contradictions between native workers and immigrant workers cannot be resolved.

In order to reduce the cost of local labor, it is no secret that some companies use illegal immigrants openly and covertly.

In the beginning, the labor union would encourage the workers to march or something, but as more and more legal expatriate workers came from Nagalil, people stopped making troubles about it.

The federal government passed the "Employment Security Act" the year before, stipulating that each enterprise must have a certain number of federal local workers to ensure that the legal rights of local workers are not infringed, otherwise it is an illegal act.

This move has greatly reduced the conflicts between federal workers and immigrants. They also realized that some things cannot be changed. As long as their own interests are not harmed, they will stop making trouble.

This gives a lot of opportunities for small companies, like these small companies that put up posters.

There may be a dozen or dozens of people in the entire company, and even the boss himself may be an illegal immigrant or not a federal citizen.

This was done intentionally to avoid the support of the law to the maximum extent after the incident. The members of the World Development Council have signed a repatriation treaty. Some people will find some small countries to register their identities, and then come to the Federation to do some gray matter. Business.

When they are caught, the people behind them will request repatriation through state channels.

These people are big taxpayers themselves. For small countries, they are no less than the core force supporting the economy. Simple fines don’t even require jail time. After a while, they can change their status and return to the Federation to continue doing them live.

Naturally, most of the people they hired were illegal immigrant workers. These people did not have any protection in the federal government and needed to live. They were willing to do it even with a very meager salary.

This is why these contracting companies can undertake all kinds of basic work at a loss and still make a profit!

In fact, this kind of thing is often exposed and sometimes reported, but neither the Immigration Bureau nor the International Affairs Department has much interference in this.

If no one reported it, the Immigration Bureau pretended not to know. Only when someone reported it would they make a move.

The development of the Federation needs these cheap labors, but through legal channels, it is necessary to take care of the feelings of ordinary workers. After all, the Federation has stopped its labor immigration policy.

The gap is getting bigger and bigger, but the channels are closed. Sometimes you need to be a little confused to be a person, and you need to be a little confused to be an official.

Lynch's acknowledgment made Mr. Truman sigh softly. He knew these things, but he couldn't do anything about them.

Compared with those workers abroad, these domestic workers are simply masters. They need chicken or beef for lunch, need a bottle of beer, and have some resistance to the length and content of their work.

As a "righteous" person, Mr. Truman is not very good at talking about this issue.

"Apart from this part, the rest is the cost of various speeches, TV station's publicity cost, and the cost of buying newspaper headlines and magazine special issues..."

In the end, Mr. Truman became a little numb. He knew that a lot of money was needed to elect a president, but he didn't know that...it needed so much money!
He couldn't help interrupting Lynch and asked, "How much did you donate when Mr. President was campaigning?"

Lynch smiled and didn't answer, but the state shown by his facial expression gave Mr. Truman an actual guess.

"1000 million... above?"

There was still no answer, but he already knew.

Immediately afterwards, he sighed, and there were some expressions on his face that he didn't know how to describe, but he quickly regained his composure.

Perhaps this is why the Federal President can never get rid of the capitalists!

Yes, it is impossible for the president himself to have so much money to allow himself to participate in an election that he may not win. He must rely on the strength of capitalists to have enough funds to run for election.

There is a saying in the Federation that everyone knows. The general meaning of this sentence is that as long as you have 1000 million, you can run for president.

This also means that the minimum threshold for running for president is this 1000 million!

How many politicians can spend 1000 million in one breath?

No!

Fortunately, Mr. Truman has the support of Lynch, the support of the military industry group, and the support of the military.

These are the wealthiest group of people in the Federation. With their support, at least in terms of funds, it is not a problem.

Mr. Truman lit a cigarette, "How much money are you planning to spend on the campaign this time?"

Lynch shook his head, "We haven't sat down to talk yet, but the preliminary estimate is that there will be at least 5000 million."

Among them, Lynch will pay about 1000 million. The military, as the backer of Mr. Truman, will certainly not pay too little, about 500 million to 2000 million, and then the military industry group can almost give out 1000 million.

The rest will be donated by other supporters. Running for the presidency does not mean that if you have enough money, you don’t need to donate. This obviously does not comply with the rules of the capital game.

Even if you have enough money, you still need to allow donations from others, and you cannot deny others the opportunity to bet just because you have an advantage.

Together, these people can have about 2000 million inflows of funds, and 5000 million is just a guarantee.

Mr. Truman also extended some ideas from this.

If there is tens of millions of capital flows at every turn when running for the presidency, then after he is elected, is it necessary to double the income of these investors?
The answer to this question is very clear - yes.

He has to make enough money for these investors, or he won't even be re-elected.

The military's money is okay, as long as some of their budgets are approved.

The military-industrial group also benefited from this, and thinking about it further, Lynch can also get a large amount of money from the military budget, and the root cause of all this is that they are all "investors."

Mr. Truman has some instinctive disgust, but he can't express it. This is the rule of the game of the Federation. You can hate it, but you must abide by it.

Anyone who does not abide by it, will be ostracized by this country!

The two left the campaign office soon, Mr. Truman was going to solve some troubles for the President, and Lynch found Peleus.

Since both parties intend to make a big bet on Mr. Truman, it is necessary to meet and have a detailed talk before the cooperation.

This time they met at the military base outside Bu Paine, which was very safe. In Peleus's words, they were all their own people.

"The soy protein condensate you mentioned last time, I still haven't figured out what it is. I also found someone to try to make some, and it seems to be quite different from what you described."

When Lynch and Peleus met for the first time, they talked a lot about food.

This representative of the next generation of the military is interested in food and looks fat.

But he's not really fat, he's just full of muscles, and under the cover of loose clothes, it will make people think he is fat.

It's also part of his self-disguise.

Lynch smiled, "I'll make some and send them over later."

After the two had a brief chat about some very ordinary content, the topic was gradually introduced into the next thing.

"Do you have any good campaign team recommendations?" Lynch asked proactively. The military actually played a major role in the campaign.

When selecting a campaign team, they must have the main opinion.

In case the election fails, if it fails, it will not be affected.

Peleus thought for a while, "We're not very good at these things, but I heard...they're doing a good job, maybe you can get in touch with them and give it a try?"

The person he was talking about was one of the best election teams currently recognized by the Federation, and the cost was naturally quite high.

There is also a father and son in this campaign team. What is amazing is that the father and son have served as presidents of the Federation before and after. There are four former presidents of the Federation in the entire team!

The strength can be said to be very strong, of course, the cost is also high enough!

If you want these former presidents to work for you, you have to show sincerity!
(End of this chapter)