[POTUS] State of the Union - Day 2430
dmjohnston
I wouldn’t lie to you, eAmerica. It’s not my policy.
Mood Music: My Gift to You, Pillow
In my last address, I talked about our progress in last week’s new tournament, which was already spectacular. And then, eAmerica kicked it into high gear! We earned 825 gold over the course of the tournament. I’m pretty sure we have absolutely no way to get it out of the treasury, but you can be sure if we find a way, I’ll spend it all on a shiny Q10000 weapon. Or food for the needy.
With the eUSA forum on the fritz, we’ve been finding other ways to keep the government gears turning, and find other ways we have! I’ve been sad to not have our Daily Press Releases, but as the forum should be up tonight, that will be returning very soon. In the meantime, how about a little update on the last few days.
I told you that our Secretary of the Interior was having issues with availability, and after much deliberation and with regret, Trickstir has decided to step down from the position and offer his assistance as a deputy. Our newly instated Secretary of the Interior is Jayxm. I chatted with him yesterday and he is very excited to be taking the reigns. The cabinet as a whole looks forward to working with him.
How about those European battles right now? Some of the biggest Combat Order payouts you’ll see for a while. While we’ve dabbled here and there in the major battles going on in Serbia and elsewhere in Europe, our focus has been on supporting Russia against Romania and Mexico against Colombia. A few days ago, we fired up Arm America to assist Russia in Central Black Earth, and what a success it was! A recent article in the Mexican media hailed the eUS as their best ally. We’ve also been fighting beside Croatia, Bulgaria, Pakistan, and others. Any question of whether the eUS supports her allies should be well beyond answered with the commitment our populace has made to assisting our friends around the eWorld, and for that I thank you all.
Our rental agreement with the nation of Cuba was officially announced yesterday. I personally feel this was a major step forward in presenting the eUS as a stable and trustworthy nation that is willing to talk to other nations with respect and understanding. I hope to continue this pattern throughout the rest of my tenure as President, and hope that my successor will continue it as well.
We also had a strong showing from the Department of Homeland Security, in particular Director greeling, in the Party President elections yesterday. While a certain someone managed to grab another minor party, the Top 5 and beyond were secured. We’ll continue to pursue any PTO threat as we always have. None can hide.
My term is already a third of the way gone, and I’ve enjoyed every minute. Be sure to check out today’s WHPR from our outstanding media team. Here’s to another week of eAmerican’s doing great things and showing the eWorld what we can do.
Your questions are welcome in the comments. I’ll be doing my best to answer quickly.
Dio bless you, and Dio bless the eUnited States of America.
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More POTUS media \o/
"Dio bless you, and Dio bless the eUnited States of America."
Dio Brando is just a bastard son of the late Marlon Brando, nothing more.
Blasphemy
All is well o7
Don't you mean a Q1776 weapon?
He means a Q1337 Weapon.
> "We earned 825 gold over the course of the tournament. I’m pretty sure we have absolutely no way to get it out of the treasury, but you can be sure if we find a way, I’ll spend it all on a shiny Q10000 weapon. Or food for the needy."
Issue money, donate cc to an org and possibly exchange them back for gold; shouldn't be a problem with the gold price being below 200cc.
*facepalms* NO WAY, REALLY?!?!?
Maybe you should get the wrong information in the DoE articles sorted before starting to offend others next time.
Thanks for reminding me why I wanted to refrain from commenting on American media, tho.
Unless I'm mistaken, issue money no longer exists.
The Issue money proposal is still available.
Was it never available to CP? I don't have it.
Only Congress can handle the moneyz, but yes there is one.
So what was the change that made us move all the gold?
The gold option was removed from Congressional Donation proposals.
And an option to donate gold was added to Donate to country treasury.
The Issue money proposal is still available to Congress members but has a printing tax or fee of 1 cc = 0.005 Gold.
http://forum.erepublik.com/index.php?/topic/2836-changes-to-country-treasuries-and-donation-laws/
http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Issue_money
I stand corrected. Seems like an odd limitation to not list it for CP too.
Great job mate. Another spectacular common success of ours is incoming at Volga-Vyatka: http://www.erepublik.com/en/military/battlefield/53891
Hopefully, today, with Poland's AS, Chile and Bulgarian battles, and our attacks Romania will leave not only our territories, which it unjustfully entered, but the map itself.
HAIL PACIFICA
HAIL USA
HAIL RUSSIA
o7
Howsit folks. Glad to be on board.
\0/ excellent work....
You wanna maybe use some of that gold and perhaps put together a plan about this whole France thing? Or are you keeping the stance of "If I ignore it it will go away"?
We need a better plan than "spend the whole reserve and hope it's bigger than his credit card limit." It's being worked on.
So, eUSA citizens were taxed at a VERY high rate for a VERY long time for the specific reason of "In case we are invaded" and now that we are being invaded that plan has been changed?
WTF!?!!?!
If I tried to outspend this guy, I would be publicly flogged for whale-tier spending.
I'll frog you anyway. 'Cuz I can.
O, you said flog... That's a funny word to say out loud.
You don't need to out spend him, you just need to spend. Or just give every citizen back the money they paid into the "Invasion War chest" since it's apparently not going to used for th
Did you look at the COs today, HHH?
The 15 per million with a pot of 30K in Div 4? Yeah I saw it, I also saw it was half of what France was offering. I also saw that in total between all div like 1% of the war chest is being offered.
You don't have to spend it all to win this war, just spend what it takes to win the Battles on US soil and they will go away well before we put any kind of dent into the funds.
And DO NOT make excuses like "But the forums are down" You are not a stupid as you look there are many other forms of communication and many ways to access the funds. Like I said, stand up and be a man your the PotUS you don't need permission from your handlers to do things. If you do, then sadly we elected the wrong person, again. (ps I didn't vote for you)
I know you didn't vote for me, as if your constant vitriol of my every action didn't demonstrate that unequivocally. As I've said multiple times, I can't just conjure up the money. I have to request it through various channels. I've done so for the last week since this whole thing started. Now why don't you go read the Congress forums and see what's /actually/ going on with this before you insult me again?
For Dio's sake you are a greedy little fellow aren't you. If it's not complaining about paying taxes it's complaining about the government not giving you money in CO's.
They are now into NY
How's that going?
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Why wasn't repeated losses to France mentioned?
It's been a back and forth and it'll continue to be a back and forth for the foreseeable future. The situation has also changed somewhat since I published this.
I heard there are plans to raise taxes and how is the economic situation in eus and is it possible to recover our losses from France since they took new jersey.Also i would like to know the benefit from the rental agreement Cuba economical not diplomatically ?
Congress did open a discussion regarding the tax rate earlier today, but I have not weighed in on the discussion. Recovering New Jersey will not be a problem; this is not a sign of a wipe. In terms of Cuba, it's impossible to quantify the economic benefit on a national scale in terms of dollars. Weapon production is 20% more efficient with the bonus region.
Thanks for the reply POTUS sir 🙂 i see the full picture now 🙂
p/h
Shields up!
Hammer down!