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Chapter 157 First Lady
"Bruce, can you believe it? After I connected Alfred to the National Social Security Administration system, Alfred gave me a list based on age, and there were actually 14 million people over 100 years old receiving social security benefits."

Bruce is on the phone with Barry, whose new department, the Efficiency Department, has started working, and Barry has begun investigating Social Security, the nation's largest expenditure.

“Barry? Please rephrase this, I don’t quite understand what you mean,” Bruce said.

“There are a lot of vampires in our country. There are 14 million people over 100 years old receiving social security benefits, and the oldest one is 369 years old,” Barry said to Bruce, looking at the data on the computer.

“Now I understand,” Bruce said. “There are really fourteen million people?”

“I’ll give you another statistic: the number of people over 130 years old receiving social security benefits has reached more than eight million,” Barry said.

“That’s great. Barry, could you please make a video to release this information to the public?” Bruce said.

"Are you really going to do this? This will cause a huge uproar. I know some families live off fraudulently claiming the social security benefits of the deceased," the bus driver said with some concern.

“This has to be done,” Bruce said, rubbing his temples.

"First, we need to reform the social security system. I'm considering connecting the social security bureau to a facial recognition system so that anyone over 80 years old who receives social security benefits will need to undergo facial recognition authentication."

"Can these adjustments also be mentioned in the video?" Barry asked.

"can."

"Okay." The call ended.

In his first week in office, Bruce signed 360 executive orders, each one like a boulder thrown into a calm lake, its impact extending beyond North America to the entire world.

Bruce identified the Mexican drug dealers as a terrorist organization and dispatched special forces teams to carry out precise decapitation strikes against them, and also blew up one drug factory after another.

Batman remains fiercely opposed to evil.

Wayne Enterprises unveiled its sixth-generation fighter jet to the world, but the jet's shape resembled a bat, seemingly a modified version of Batman's Batmobile.

Bruce signed an executive order rejoining the World Health Organization. The reason for this rejoining is that the previous president was an oddball who believed that joining the WHO and sharing public health information threatened national security.

The previous president not only withdrew from the World Health Organization, but also from several other international organizations. Now Bruce has rejoined them and has to make up for the dues he owed.

After taking office, Bruce didn't have a single day to relax; he was always working with great enthusiasm, with endless tasks ahead. Only after truly becoming president did the elder Bruce realize just how corrupt the country he lived in had become.

Bruce positioned his phone on a phone stand, turned on video recording, and began filming the new video he would be posting on his personal account.

"I'm thinking about an important change..."

"I'm going to hear your opinions."

"Doesn't anyone find it strange that we have to pay property tax every year after we buy a house before it truly belongs to us?"

“I plan to make property tax a one-time tax, where once we buy a house and pay the property tax, the house will belong to us forever.”

"Yes... just like in another country."

After filming wrapped, Bruce edited the footage, added subtitles, and uploaded it.

In less than ten minutes, Bruce's new video garnered millions of views and hundreds of thousands of shares. Almost all comments were supportive of Bruce, while some expressed concern, fearing he might be impeached for harming national interests. That same day, stocks related to real estate surged, and housing prices also rose to varying degrees.

Savvy observers speculate that Bruce's thinking is flawed; simply reforming the property tax isn't enough. He'll undoubtedly implement further reforms targeting the real estate sector. Wayne Enterprises also has a real estate business; let's see what they do next.

Since Bruce became president, Wayne Enterprises' stock has been soaring, rising day by day, poised to propel Bruce back to the top of the world's richest list.

That evening, Bruce uploaded another video as a supplement to the content.

"The reason I think about wanting the house to belong to us forever is because I once met a man in a park in Gotham who had become homeless for various reasons. He lost his house because he lost his job and couldn't pay the property taxes, and then he couldn't find a new job because he had nowhere to live, leading to a vicious cycle."

"This should not have happened."

“We should have the right not to work. When we don’t want to work, we don’t have a fixed income, but we can still live in our own homes without worrying about losing our houses because we can’t pay property taxes…”

The second video had an even more dramatic impact. Suddenly, even homeless people on the street were holding up signs in support of Bruce's idea. The lower and middle classes across the country became Bruce's staunch supporters, while the upper classes also expressed their support because they paid much more in property taxes than ordinary people every year.

January has ended, and February has begun.

February is a diplomatic month for Bruce, with many important figures from other countries visiting and requiring him to make time to meet with them.

"Bruce, Bruce..."

“Just say what you want to say! There’s no need for beating around the bush in our relationship,” Bruce said to Barry.

“Mr. President, where is our First Lady?” Barry asked.

“Hey, Barry, I’m not married, so I don’t have a First Lady,” Bruce said.

“It’s time. This is a matter of face for us. Everyone else is in pairs at diplomatic occasions, and it looks too lonely for you to be alone,” Barry said.

"So, which of my hundreds of ex-girlfriends do you think would be suitable to be our First Lady?" Bruce asked.

"I think Selena is the one."

"Which Selena are you talking about?" Bruce asked, smiling at Barry.

“Selena Kyle,” Barry said.

"..."

“No, that won’t do. She has a kleptomania and can’t resist sparkly jewelry. I’d be even more embarrassed if she stole a foreign leader’s wife’s jewelry.” Bruce shook his head.

Selena Kyle is Catwoman, the one Bruce can never forget.

"Besides, she has rejected me before."

“Bruce, of the forty-four presidents since the founding of the nation, no president has ever married during his term. You may be the first,” Barry said.

(End of this chapter)