There was not a breath of wind across the tranquil lake. The small boat sat motionless in the middle of it.
No one knew they were meeting here... Well, that was just a way of fooling himself. In reality, the National Security Committee knew they were meeting here. At least Austin did.
Once she knew, it meant the National Security Committee knew; once the National Security Committee knew, it meant the Department of Defense knew. But that did not matter. Lin Qi did not care whether those people knew or not, because they were all "one of us."
At least when it came to this matter, they were one of them.
The development of any country required massive amounts of capital. Put simply, development meant spending money.
Only by constantly spending could society develop. If a country's government had no money, then development was out of the question.
Of course, having money but refusing to spend it led to the same result.
The Federal Government was willing to spend. In previous years, its various annual budgets had all exceeded two or three billion, and this year they had broken through five billion. Perhaps next year or the year after, they would continue breaking through that barrier.
This placed enormous pressure on the Federal Government's finances. In fact, governments sometimes did business as well; it was just that many people did not understand how governments conducted business.
In their impression, a country's government did not seem to have any departments that made profits through operations. Did it monopolize certain resources or goods?
Or perhaps... some other public-private business? No. Anyone who thought that way could only be said to have an understanding of the world that had not reached a particularly high level. In reality, it was very simple for a