***431 Gold, Where and Why***
Uncle Sam
first let me make this perfectly clear. If you are not willing to read what I have to say, and comprehend it with rational thought, then please don't even bother reading this article. With that in mind, allow me to explain a little situation about 431 gold that will obviously get out of hand before people really know what's going on.
A Donation from Romania
Some of you may know the story, others may not. Here's the situation. Romania approached our government offering that if we provided 3 to 5 tanks for a battle against Indonesia, they would fully supply them with the gold to buy a total of 80 wellness packs (160 gold each). These tanks were required to be able to do over 200 damage per hit. In this offer, the country that is providing the tanks would also have to supply them with Q5 weapons.
The Process, What Went Down
The CIA and myself went bargain hunting and found very cheap Q5 weapons for the time. We contacted our three best tanks, Benn Dover, Pearlswine and Tybec. I donated gold to the marines org so that we could start to supply them, preparing for the epic battle against Indonesia. 431 Gold was spent on weapons for these tanks. Big Brother provided these weapons and allowed our tanks to be supplied properly. The battle was fought, and our tanks did a serious amount of damage. As a result, we successfully aided our allies into winning a key battle while also sending in other tanks on a budget of 250 gold, and sending our marines in to do some damage as well.
Why?
The question everyone wants to know. Why were these three tanks supplied more than any other group? Why did we chose to aid Romania instead of spending that money on our own affairs? To these questions there are answers, however I want everyone to read and understand them rationally without bias from any previous information gained through the media.
We paid this group of tanks more money because they were sent in to win. It only makes sense that we sent in our strongest to do the most amount of damage. In the process, we had 2 American tanks rank up, which does allow us to grow as a country. Secondly, we wouldn't have spent so much money on them if half the money wasn't already provided by Romania. Essentially Romania gave us a gift of Gold to give some of our strongest guys a chance to rank up.
Now on to why we chose to aid Romania with our gold instead of ourselves. First off, it helped us to secure a much needed win for ATLANTIS. Imagine if we lost... what exactly do you think would happen to our alliance? Now imagine if we hadn't helped them and they won. ATLANTIS would be all over us for not aiding our allies during a crucial time against our number 1 enemy, Indonesia. This is a decision that was of course hard to make, as I fully understand the ramifications of each side. I chose the lesser of two evils. Of course there are other benefits to this which can not be disclosed simply because they are top secret operations not to be shared with the public. Select intelligence committees from congress will be informed of these operations once formed.
What I've Proposed (Over and Over)
There have been many instances where I've proposed that money from the treasury go to a congressional organization. There are many congressmen that can attest to this action, however nothing was done about it. Donations were still made for Fort Knox when in forum threads, and in the congress chat I repeatedly said that congress should take responsibility for the government funds. This has not happened yet. As a result of the recent controversy, I would hope to see that actual actions is taken by congress to make use of their organization.
Why Argue?
Simply put, although a short argument, now is not the time to argue over such a thing. We have just gained a victory against Indonesia, celebrate that for what it's worth.
-Uncle Sam-
USA Presidnet
Comments
pertamaxx
good article. well played, U.S
The CFI has been formed for quite some time now. I understand that this may have been a last second plan or whatever, but at least some sort of informing would have been nice. Letting it come out via your ex-VP is not the way it should be coming out.
We have been hounding you on communication and you continue to drop the ball.
you didn't bother to inform anyone nor did you ask for a permission. Blank checks are over now. I don't believe you would write this article if you ex-VP didn't inform us about this. Excuse me, but I am very unsatisfied with your explanation.
"Letting it come out via your ex-VP is not the way it should be coming out."
QFT
It was impressive to see americans fight with such power. Nice work.
Toothpaste,
Sweden
NO YOU IDIOT IT WAS 432 NOT 431
J/K
Thanks for informing us.
Hopefully we can keep doing the damage we are doing now.
Thank uncle sam, your gesture was apreciated in Romania.
also we have great respect towards your Elite Recon unit, and of course the ahrdcore tanks that helped us tremendously.
thank you uncle sam, and thank you USA again.
I accept this explanation
A little confused about these two sentences, "431 Gold was spent on weapons for these tanks...on a budget of 250 gold, and sending our marines in to do some damage as well."
Was the overall budget 431 tanks and 250 for marines or what?
marines got sent with Q1s, we had 230 gold to spend and that wasn't for the 1st Recon Unit. So stop lying sam.
You gave no budget for the 1st Recon and your budget for the marines was pitiful.
~Lt.General Sukoidha,eUSMC
Quarter Master of the eUSMC
Oh right guys, it's a time of war. Don't question the President about anything he does. That would be unpatriotic!
You're a joke, Sam.
Seems like a good explination.
Also seems like it should have been cleared by a few more people first.
lol hahaha most voted article ever
Right or wrong, I think you just gave us 431 more reasons to question your judgment.
431 gold that could have funded another q5 hospital. What a shameful waste of taxpayer dollars.
While this answer is short and to the point I am very disappointed at how the situation was handled. This information was handed out by your former vice-president and not by you after it the task had been completed. Although I understand the reasoning behind not talking about it with the general public before or during the event it should have been disclosed afterward. I wonder if you would have ever said anything about it had Joe not said anything about it.
"I wonder if you would have ever said anything about it had Joe not said anything about it."
I'll put 100 Gold down on "no".
this is the perfect time to argue. The taxes where raised to provide funding to the WHOLE MILITARY. Thus far I havent seen anything provided to anyone who's not a tank or marine. AS for your complaining about peoples outrage. The only time you tell anyone anything is when you get called out. The information had no reason to remain classified after the fight ended and yet you didnt release the info. The damage bonus gained from leveling up 2 tanks isnt anything compared to the damage increase of the hundreds of people gaining rank. So far I consider nearly everything you justified your tax hike on a lie. The only positive long term thing Ive seen provided during your term so far is the creation of nationalize weapons program and it hasnt even really gotten up and running yet.
1.You havent provided gun to general solders
2.You share no information
a.there is no gain to the enemy in knowing the deal we had for
our tank with Romania.
b.You even abandoned a great number of our NG in Mexico due to
your lack of provding information.
c.you didnt inform our alliance and that cost us money and
respect
3.From congressional reports you havent participated in congressional meetings. You simply come in at the end of them veto everything thats been discussed and do what you want.
4.The information that you have put out has atleast most of the time turned out to either be flatoput false or a manipulation of half truths for propaganda purposes.
As is stands Ill be glade to have you out as it doesnt seem like you been as active as the position requires and Im hoping that congress will either start providing your promises for you or reset the taxes to what they where before the lies began. Ive been backing you but by my count this is your 7 strike so Im giving up on you. I really wish this game would allow me to try and assasinate you. alas the feature isnt there yet. hail Uncle Sam
I see nothing wrong with this decision, Sam.
"now is not the time to argue over such a thing. We have just gained a victory against Indonesia, celebrate that for what it's worth."
When would be an appropriate time to argue over these things? As far as I can tell eAmericans can celebrate something when they actually take part in it. Right now it looks like only 0.03% of eUSA can celebrate. Unless the nation takes part in this by paying for it, in which case I guess the other 99.97% can celebrate too.
Right thing to do.
Helping ur allies is ur duty - good article and voted.
Uncle sam you are supplying your allies and beta-giants with money to acheive your personal goals.
withh your botched attempt to take over mexico you left 200 of my NG brothers in mexico; i only manged to get out in a hour before they took over.
And your lack of suppling the milltary with wepons so you can give your friends some cash to blow is the final straw. If i was a congressmen i whould vote for your impeachment
Im kinda pissed off Sam. There were about 100 people in the Northwest, not all were NG, but I sure as Hell was there. Now, even after the call for volunteers went out and dozens of our citizens left to build a wall, you retreat and abandon them there, with some people putting all they had into this to stop Portugals advacne. It shouldn't be a big deal, we got back easily enough through other countries and support of our friends and superiors (thanks Hari) but just the fact that you did that really makes me disappointed. You apparently didn't care about dozens of soldiers which you new wouldn't be able to regain wellness because of teh absolute lack of a hospital and they knew they would lose a bit out of it, and leave them, but you care so much for 3 others. Enough to spend, oh, just about all we have into them by the way.
Maybe, if your tax hikes went to a purpose such as actually building a supplied military, rather than being so exceited about leveling up a grand total of what 2 people. Great addition to the eUSA Sam.
Maybe im a little biassed because i had to move from the northwest to south africa and back to florida, and the fact that your retreat left me with about 50 wellness. But this is my position and Im sticking with it.
Uncle Sam, it isn't a question whether the actions at the time you made are right or wrong. You spoke to no one. You consulted no one. You took American money into your hands and used it the way you thought best. Last I checked, that would define you as a dictator.
It is our duty to help out our alliance. At the same time, you should at least give us a heads up. I don't see any problem in what you did, but you should at least let us know that it is coming. And in addition, you should provide military funding to the army units you already have. They are going to be your future tanks after all. If you don't support them, how will they gain rank and receive a better damage output?
Communication Sam! Stop leaping before you look! You'll screw up again like you did the Mexican war, and then it will be your fault because you didn't talk to anyone. Your actions were completely your own, so you will completely own up to the blame.
And I agree with Brett. That retreat was incredibly stupid.
Our allies helped us - it's an alliance for a reason.
Next time, put out the call for all Americans to go if they want to spend their own coin.
Pearlswine is not in our military nor in our 1st Recon Tank Unit. You can continue to supply people outside the Marines, the organized US military and Chain of Command as you see fit. But I can speak for the Marines and 1st Recon when I say you do not have our support, Mr. President.
Why do we spend our time and resources trying to create 20 Tanks when you only see your "Beta-giant" friends?
*tip of the quill to Ananias*
Everything Joe said is true. You can continue to fund your friends as you see fit, doing everything on your own without us, but this nation will only have 3 tanks of rank instead of a complete and cohesive unit. We are tired of being at your whim for inadequate funding, lack of communication and zero strategic planning.
If Romania gave 48 hours notice for their planned attack on WSR, why are America's military scrambling after the war is declared, minimally equipped with no direction? Where is the communication with the Joint Chiefs? Where is the cooperative planning that allows 80+ Marines to rank up to Colonel or General?
You have known for sometime my opinion of your involvement with the military. I have held my voice because of respect for your office, but I will not allow you to continue to shit on my soldiers because YOU have no respect for us.
General Eugene Harlot
Commandant, eUSMC
Simply put, this is nonsense. $27,000 spent on your friends. This could have provided 550 Q3 weapons to the army.
You've gone from incompetent to corrupt to borderline treasonous.
Jeremy Hutchinson 1 hours ago "I see nothing wrong with this decision, Sam."
You know something has gone horribly wrong when Hutch is one of your supporters.
I suppose this is why a national budget plan is warranted in the eUSA
@carthage: yes, it is an alliance. And these two or three tanks may have given you the edge. That's great.
There were also two people from my NG unit who paid their own way over, bought their own weapons, based on this alliance. These are not rich people. They paid out of their own pockets to go to a strange land and fight for you, our allies. But they don't get credit because they didn't do 5,000 damage. And they were not the only Americans who went there with no help from the US government.
The question is transparency. And there's been none of it in this administration.
I remember the arguments over the PANEC plan. Joe told me it would be used to build up the whole military, even the NG, not just to fund tanks. I believe that that's what he truly thought would happen at the time.
But that's not what happened.
When's the next election, again?
Thank you Harlot. As a marine I am fed up with your blatent disrespect for the military that you have been wanting to improve. We are damn fed up with the lack of funding that you have promised us to make us a better military. Concentrating the majority of funds on 3 people is borderline idiotic. Not only are you not helping the military as a whole to rank up, but you are putting all of your eggs in one basket. Not saying that any of them will, but what happens if even one of those 3 decide to either leave eUSA or quit the game entirely due to RL issues? Basically we would be screwed.
It is a shame that I have wasted my time supporting you and your decisions. I even went as far as to defend you against your critics, but this is the preverbial straw that has broken the camels back. Get out of office you incompetent fool.
I fought for Romania, and I know of a Pvt. that I helped to fund over there as well. Im shure there are more out there lol
Sgt.RivasA
2nd Division/7th Platoon
USNG
Why are so many people bothered with this? This was the biggest battle to date, and extremely important in the global Atlantis-Peace conflict. People are complaining about the fact that only 3 tanks were sent. Reread the second paragraph, Romania approached the US with free wellness packs for 3 to 5 tanks..
I would have been angry if the US had not participated at all in the battle (though I'm sure many would have moved and fought with their own gold anyway)
How this is lame. Sam you could at least ask us for permicion or our opinions :/
"431 gold that could have funded another q5 hospital. What a shameful waste of taxpayer dollars."
I have to say that I agree with this sentement. I won't condem you for this Sam, mostly because there is very little way for us to prove one way or another what happened. I will say that it was foolish of you not to explain this before it became a controversy. I also think that it is foolish of all of us to be paying any amount to fight Romania's wars for it when it seems to have little interest in the eUSA when it does not directly benefit from it.
Thanks for the warning... I didn't read the article.
secrets and lies? you need to communicate, it the marines and your own VP disagree with you, how are we suppose to react?
@uncle Scam: ***431 Gold, Where and Why***, You should have titled it "How Im ripping off eUSA for my own gain"
I mean how many times can you be allowed to screw us as a nation and make crap up to keep the eSheep happy?
How many USD and Gold are you currently planning to steal when you leave office to ensure you stay eRich? I mean if you write blank checks to everyone and lie to the people, whats a little embezlement or thieft from you? Of course its speculation at this time what you'll continue to do or do on your last day in office.
If your current track record is any indication, You will continue to use this country and its taxes for your own personal gain and in the end, blame everything on congress and the Marines/Army and make off with our gold/USD.
I also find it funny that you continue to lie when your VP and the Marines are calling you on your BS. You need to be impeached and removed from office, maybe even the game if you do anything under handed on your way out.
So all that aside, Whos your next pick for a VP Lackey to abuse, keep in the dark and have resign?
Congress needs to get immediate oversight over Ft. Knox and any other federal reserve. Quite aside from Sam's discretion or competence, how can we be sure that Sam or some future President won't do a Franco, and simply blow the whole treasury on e-ponies, e-hookers, and e-booze, or just decide to give the whole reserve to the Indonesians for fun?
seriously we need to level up the common solider in order to make more tanks and thus be able to do more damage and i think that 431 gold is enough to level up several of our own citizens.
Gilroy put this best:
BLANK CHECKS ARE OVER
I'm so glad I voted yes to your impeachment.
reelect uncle sam
please
pretty please
seriously
i am asking nicely
just do it
Just for you all to know, in responce to Danny Kowens, i agree with that. The NG has more Guardsmen then some smaller countrys, if we are all lvd up, think on how strong the mili would be? These are people that arnt sent in to onother country because they are ordered to, they go to help, they often go paved by their own pockets, and they go because people wont know they are there unless they are called a tank or a marine. I have great respect for the USMC and the tanks we have, but I also have Great respect for Pvt. Guardsmen who go without food for a day to pay for a ticket to fight in a war for a forein country. If you are a Guardsmen, and need monetary help to go and fight, PM me and I will do my best to help.
Sgt. RivasA
2nd Division/7th Platoon
USNG
@ RivasA:
Yes! and that's what is admirable!
There are two soldiers in my NG platoon (3rd platoon, 2nd DIV) who went over on their own tickets and bought their own weapons. I'd say their names, but I don't have their permission, so I won't.
But that's what it should be about. You get a day or two off from your employer, you have the money for plane tickets, your unit gives you a couple weapons, and you move to Podolia for 3 days (don't want to lose that hard worker medal).
And that is how the "tanks" or Marines, or Army of the future are born. If we pour all our resources into mercenaries, we will have only ourselves to blame when someone offers them a better price to attack us.
RivasA-- thank you for your service.
RivasA is good people.
Sam,
I appreciate your comments and explanations which help us understand why you did this. What this tells the public is that "As long as money gets donated to Ft. Knox, the President can do whatever he wants with it without consulting congress or the military."
As a member of the NG, I had hoped that at least Q1 weapons might be provided to us with the increase in taxes. During the Mexico encounter, what I saw was money wasted on moving tickets: I follow orders to move and, right after I move, I get orders telling me that Uncle Sam changed his mind and I have to move back. Many other soldiers and I lost 4 wellness in 1 day with nothing in return, funded by USD. The only reason for this is the amount of time that is spent making deals behind closed doors rather than ensuring open channels of communication with congress and the military. Hopefully, these channels will be opened now...
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