4 Goals for the Nation: My Campaign for President
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by Jeff Hamilton
To the People of Thailand!
I am Jeff Hamilton, 3-month resident of Thailand and the candidate for President of Thailand on the Nationalist Party ticket.
Thailand has suffered greatly over the many months of its existence, from being nearly bankrupted by its self-proclaimed Emperor to suffering a major crisis of confidence in the government with the recent Indonesian War Games scandal. These events have tested the mettle of the nation in more ways than one, and it is in response to these that I have decided to run for President of the Nation of Thailand.
However, despite all of the problems that we have been facing, there are solutions. Thailand can and will become a major power; all we need is the willpower and the drive to make it happen. The way to do it is through aspiring to the 4 Goals for the Nation.
1: The expansion of the active population of Thailand by between 50 and 100 people. Thailand's greatest problem in this day and age is its appalling lack of population, which is slowly starving our industries of profit and materials. To counter this, we need rapid expansion of Thailand's population, and the best way to do this is through expanding and increasing funding for the Thai Recruitment Plan.
2: The selling of our Government Defense Company, and the subsequent moving of the profit gained from this sale into the Thai Recruitment Program. The influx of gold gained from this sale would provide the basis for funding of Thailand's programs for a long time to come.
3: The immediate lowering of all taxes to the bare minimum level of taxation. Although this itself will not affect prices much at all, it provides a clear incentive for people to move here and gives people a major reason to reinvest the money into the Thai markets.
4: The immediate petition for membership in the PEACE Global Community. Although Thailand is a great nation, with others it could be even greater. Joining PEACE would secure our southern border with Indonesia with impunity, and allow us greater security through collective security.
For Thailand!
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Good luck.
#1 We actually have plenty of money to fund the recruitment of other citizens, the problem is our little "war" with Indonesia kind of threw a giant wrench into our plans.
#2 Honestly probably wouldnt sell. Have you looked at the bargains on the Company for Sale market? There are some out right steals if someone wanted to own a company. We'd be better off exporting the DS and raking in the profit that way.
#3 One of our huge issues regarding currency is there is a lot of extra baht floating around out there. Ideally through a bit of taxation we will slowly absolve this outstanding baht into the treasury further increasing the value of the baht. Of course this is all "in theory".
All in all, while your plans have some merit, I have no freaking clue who the heck you are. I dont think Ive ever seen you comment or create an article here until now. So my question to you is...what took you so long?
Jack:
I'm frankly not surprised that you've never heard of me. I emigrated from my "homeland" of eUSA about 5 days into my "life" to Thailand once I'd heard about the problems with Rockman. I've generally stayed out of politics for the most part here, but the recent Indonesian War Games event and the response of the bloodless internationalists to this by calling for your head galled me so much that I decided to run for Party President of the old SUP.
In short, what took me so long to show my face on the national stage is that I had faith in the ability of the government to keep Thailand strong; a faith buoyed by your first Presidency, Korbin's, Guy's, and your second presidency. However, I no longer have that trust in the elected officials of the government (rea😛 Idealist Congressmen) because of the hostile response to your decision to take part in the wargames with Indonesia. I want to see Thailand strong, and the best way I see to do that is to run for President and try and get more than 40 candidates so that the people will have a choice.
Jack pretty much hit all the points except for #4.
4. Why should we join PEACE? We've never been the target of conquest in all the time Thailand has existed. We've always been on good terms with Indonesia, and really, that's all we need to be on good terms with.
Huh...well good luck!
3 month resident what did take you so long to comment or post an article though if you can prove how genuine you are this could be a very succesfull cmpaign.
Sparkster:
It took me so long to comment because I saw no need to comment at all. As I explained in my first comment, I trusted the government of Thailand to keep the nation strong and unified, which it pretty much did until recent times. These stirrings of discontent by the internationalist grouping only sow discord amongst the people and render Thailand that much weaker. If those people felt so strongly about the wargames and subsequent Indonesian invasion of India (which I support), they should have spoken to the President in private, not risked the unity of Thailand on a point of frankly miniscule importance.
Callagan:
We should join PEACE simply because there is strength in numbers. The fact that all of our neighbors are either PEACE members or border PEACE members makes Thailand impune to an external invasion (although a Theocrat-type invasion would be possible, and is one of the reasons why we need more active people.)
I'll say this, you're already much more coherent and understandable than defensestration. 😉
Jeff: If we join PEACE, then we're excluding for the most part large portions of where we recruit new members. eUSA, eUK, they'd see it as us stealing their people for the other side instead of friendly recruitment.
Callagan:
You do make a fair point. However, I believe that the people who we are trying to recruit will not care whether they are in a PEACE or ATLANTIS or neutral country as long as they have opportunities to become prosperous. I intend to make sure that Thailand has these opportunities.
Jack:
Thank you. 🙂
After speaking with jeff briefly i have decided you vote agoinst the congress vote pending on jack roberts and let him finish his term.
Even though i may be in the same party as defenstration i am fully in support of jeff's run for president.
In fact i do not fully understand why we currently have party's in the eRepublik what is the diffenrence between all these party's a part from specific people wanting to boost their own eEgo.
Going off of Callagan's points of your fourth goal, do the benefits really outweigh the risks? In general, those within ATLANTIS will have a more negative view of us, considering we are allied with those against them. And in the unlikely event that PEACE asks eThailand for support, that could be a problem. We have a hard enought time maintaining our country as is. I'm not sure that this is a good idea.
I am for the idea of getting more people here in eThailand, though. But I'm confused on how exactly you plan to increase the population by up to 100. Money can only do so much.
Radm:
You're forgetting that PEACE members will have a greater incentive to move to Thailand as well. As for the population increase, it is possible.
I don't doubt that relations with PEACE nations would improve, but we would need some fairly good incentives to get them to move. There are better paying jobs in other places, so if people are purely searching for high paying jobs, I'm not so sure joining PEACE will help much in the recritment business.
Just some constructive criticism.
Hm, it's always good to see another possible candidate. You appear to at least have the organizational power, but your points seem flawed. We do have a lack of population, but diverting more gold to the recruitment program isn't what will boost it up. Selling Cyberdyne also seems like a bad move to me--the market's clogged with other defense systems in large countries, and the deal with defense systems is that it's the workforce that's hard to get, not the company itself. Combined with the NWP, I think Cyberdyne can potentially make another defense system that'll bring in more money than just selling the whole thing.
I don't know much about economics, but our current goal for baht is to increase its value, and suddenly dropping taxes doesn't seem to be the right method.
Just my thoughts. Good luck, I guess.
I'll mostly chime in to say that I agree with Jack on points 1-3 (especially on 2; I can't see CGDS selling), and I think Callagan makes good points regarding 4 (recall also how many PEACE countries are anglophone vs. Atlantis), though on 4 a case can be made either way.
I'll also point out regarding some of the "who is this guy" comments that, after I mouth a suspicious "who?" of my own, I did recall seeing you from time to time when digging through the eThai populous over the last three months. It was seeing your avatar that flipped the switch in my brain; after all, how many che - erm, faded-gray-on-white silhouettes can there be in Thailand?
(Yes, someone is thinking Happy Thoughts at the admins right now... 😉
@sparkster:
>In fact i do not fully understand why we currently have party's
>in the eRepublik what is the diffenrence between all these
>party's a part from specific people wanting to boost their own
>eEgo.
In terms of policy differences, the major point of dispute is how much the gov't should intervene in the markets: do we want no state-run companies, only large-scale construction, critical-sector, or as many as the President can found? Do we want gov't loans and subsidizes for private companies? Do we want low taxes, or no taxes? A balance budget (via taxes? gov't co. profits?) or deficit spending 'til the treasury runs dry?
TNT historically tends towards third-way socialism, PUP advocates market liberalism, DPR is unabashedly socialist, and NPT looks to be professing minarchist/libertarian. MLFC advocates... um... the introduction of a ML-based economy?
Welcome to the gauntlet. Seems like many will be running this time around which should be interesting.
I can attest to Jeff Hamilton being a good employee 🙂 He always shows to work.
As far as the above points I hate to be a repeater but I agree with Jack on his counter-points.
I do wish you luck though. I appreciate that you want to step up and give the Country something back.
1. That's SQ. Nothing new. Unless you can better organize and manage it, with effective recruitment (meaning actual immigration and retention), I don't see how your platform is different.
2. I think a Gov DS was actually one of the best ideas in this country. Cheaper to produce (and harder to buy due to scarcity of sellers) and in line with national security interests.
3. It has to be balanced. Your analysis is way oversimplified. There are times and areas that needs to be taxed.
4. No, I like to see Thailand remain a neutral country. We're not appealing to be conquered anyway we don't have high productivity regions.
5. Welcome! Glad to finally hear a new voice, even if 3 months after. 😃