Desertfalcon For President: Foreign Policy
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by Desertfalcon
First off I would like to congratulate the CVP for their success in the congress elections. We corrected our mistakes from the last election and with proper communication and planning we went from having a measly 4 seats in congress to 12 and tying for the majority with the USWP. What we need to do is carry that momentum from the congressional elections into March and hopefully take the presidency. I have not yet finalized my VP pick however I expect to have one by Monday.
Seeing as the invasion of Mexico is the hot topic right now I am going to kick off my series of campaign platforms with my stances on foreign policy. Now my last article on the war was written for fun, there was not much justification for the war in that article but quite frankly I don’t think it’s necessary. This is a game, nobody dies in war and nobody suffers from it. Wars within the game are one of the most intriguing aspects of this game and the game is built around war in a way. Without war the weapons and defensive system industries would go under, and the moving tickets and gifting companies would have trouble staying afloat as well.
As for invading Mexico I believe we should go two regions deep and stop after taking Mexico City. This will give us six new regions, control of the highest quality Mexican hospital, and leave the Mexicans with two regions. Now we will have to beat a Mexican-Hungarian alliance tomorrow but although Hungary has experienced a population boom they are at best about half our strength. It will be a much closer battle tomorrow as we attempt to gain control of the Mexican capital but I remain confident that we will win.
Now the big question with Mexico is what we should do with the regions we capture. We should let Mexico remain independent with those two regions furthest south however I believe we should hold on to the rest of Mexico for now. The regions themselves are worth very little to us at the moment, however they could be effective bargaining chips when dealing with other countries, for example we could offer to give up control of Mexico City if a country like Turkey were to give some regions back to Israel. Also having a buffer with a country that is quite unstable is not bad either.
I am one of the most vocal critics of Atlantis, as it has been holding us back for awhile now and we have been getting nothing out of it. Operation French toast was a complete failure and after that the alliance has not worked well together. What we need is a smaller more close knit alliance made up of countries that we share common interests with who are in our region of the world. I would keep us in Atlantis for the first few weeks of my term however I would also speak with other world leaders about the possibility of them breaking off from PEACE or Atlantis and joining us in a third alliance. If I get enough countries willing to come join us in a third alliance I will put it before congress.
If you have any questions or comments please feel free to PM me.
~Desertfalcon~
~American Presidential Candidate~
~March 2009~
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Pertamaxx
Good luck DF!!
I strongly support your third alliance idea.
Seeing 3 powers squaring off against each other would lead to an interesting world of diplomacy. I'd love to see it.
me for VP????
Lol you wish 🙂
Good luck DF we got ya back
Amen, DF
I like the bargaining chips idea. Voted.
3rd alliances?!
Love the idea.
Sounds very interesting.
Could cause backlash, but we could use the experience.
hungary is waiting to train from home
VOTE DF for President !
Hungary should also keep in mind Romania might take advantage of you all leaving to fight in Mexico.
DF for President!!!
Good luck!
@Justin Moore:
The Federalist Party has endorsed Desertfalcon for president...
Do you want to take over the southeast region or leave it under Mexicos control?
Nice plan, DF.
Awaiting your VP pick with open ears. 🙂
Interesting ideas.
Two points: if we take Mexico's Q4, isn't it destroyed in the battle?
Second, it will be interesting to see what happens with Hungary. I would think that a heavy investment in defending Mexico from Hungary would sound like a dinner bell to Romania.
Question:
What about that magic forcefield you mentioned last column that separates north Mexico from the south? As you stated, the Mexican region pages don't show those bordering regions as neighbors. Won't that make it tough to invade? Or is that an error only on the Mexico region pages, but not in the war modules? TIA
The Conservative Party is suppose to be for low taxes, yet its President advocates war, which is the primary justification for high taxes...seems to me a disconnect...Sort of like RL Obama saying he is for cutting the deficit in half while advocating for ever increasing spending.
I do not believe we should hold on to Mexico...even using it as a bargaining chip sounds fine...but I say work with a valid Mexican government or use it to get one...if there is one, then give it back to them.
Third alliance is fine...but I don ot know how to trust a president that basically says low taxes but high spending.
With all due respect to a very well written article (voted) and your welcome transparency regarding your Foreign Policy platform, I think it begs the question of how you intend to pay for your endeavors. As the candidate for the Conservative Party, a party for which a CVP Council Member, Donovanator, recently posted in his campaign literature:
"always push for lower VAT and Income Tax as much as possible."
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/vote-for-me-tennessee-donovanator--738427/1/20
Then, on the public Conservative Party Party board, in eUS Forums, Donovanator states:
"Conservatives believe in good funding for the military,defense, and secret service and that is about IT"
http://eusforum.com/index.php/topic,749.msg20725.html#msg20725
Again, while I respect the right of Conservatives to approach taxation and spending in any manner they choose, it may be helpful to the voters for you to identify exactly how you intend to pay for these ambitious, if well-intended, plans, while seeking actively to "cut to the quick" the revenue required to support the eUS military and alliance endeavors outlined in your foreign policy?
DF For President!
E S A !!!
@ Muljo
The south east will remain Mexican
@ Alpha
The war in Mexico won't drain our economy too much as we won't need to spend a whole lot of money on tanks and stuff. As for taxes read my response to Annais
@ Annais
I have said many times, keep the import tax high and the other taxes at lower levels. Other developed countries who spend loads on their armies follow this very philosophy and almost every time war breaks out they have loads of tanks ready to fight.
share*, assuming*
Good luck my friend. The CVP is for lower taxes, not to be confused with NO taxes. We support lower taxes on Income and higher taxes on imports. Why not make the foriegners pay more of the bill and give eAmerican companies a better chance to compeate with them in our own market. War is about providing oppertunity to those same eUSA companies so that they can keep humming along and providing jobs for all of us.
@DF - "I have said many times, keep the import tax high and the other taxes at lower levels. Other developed countries who spend loads on their armies follow this very philosophy and almost every time war breaks out they have loads of tanks ready to fight."
My response to that is that most other countries do not make a continuous effort to devalue their currency to support the export market.
Can you define the term "lower levels", that seems rather ambiguous in light of the fact that the Conservative Party will:
"always push for lower VAT and Income Tax as much as possible."
Also, increased import taxes (market barriers) will not result in increased revenue since they are the only means by which to obtain revenue from companies (internationally), as most domestic companies use the monetary market to avoid income taxes. Therefore the premise that the military funding will be underwritten by higher import taxes is false. Higher import taxes reduce revenue.
It should also be noted to the eUS taxpayer that the percentage of eUS expenditure on Military and Alliances far exceeds that of any other expense (which is rightfully so), therefore it may be best to explain the link between cutting taxes arbitrarily as a philosophy and the succeeding cut in frequency of battles due to loss of revenue.
Again, I, a lowly citizen, can support my point through cursory research into international markets and foreign economic policies...is it not reasonable to request that a presidential candidate with extremely expensive ambitions can do the same?
While import taxes may sound like the best solution to you, I would offer that it is too simplistic an assumption and does not, in fact, take the economic dynamics of eRepublik into account.
Still, I respect your viewpoint, even if I consider it unsupported by the data. Respectfully.
lol Ananias you are leaning very heavy on what one member of the party said. We do not all share that view. In fact some of us would rather replace that income tax with Vat simply because it allows the average person to deside for themselves what they want to spend there money on and as such they will still pay the taxes.
@ Ananias
Just like Mindflay said your putting words in my mouth based on what members of my party had said. We don't force a particular belief down anyone's throat here and this article was about my foreign policy not about taxes. If you want to debate over taxes just wait a few days. Its unfair for you to be taking stabs at my economic platform BEFORE I even release it. There is much more that I can say in an article that I can't in a comment.
@mindflay - well put, disagreed but amicably, I look forward to the completion of your party's manifesto so we can have a hearty debate regarding the comprehensive economic philosophy...if I am still alive then 🙂. Take care.
PS: "The CVP is for lower taxes, not to be confused with NO taxes."
Lower? Economies of scale?
Wooo
Go America!
@DF - I look forward to the article. And the reason that I chose to use Donovatators words were only because of his credentials as a a member the CVP Council. So, once again DF, nothing against you, just an observation regarding the expense of your platform and the published philosophy of those in leadership positions within your party.
PS: I actually really like Donovanator as well, I just disagree with his views of the economy.
check out this e1t attempt (sorry DF for the "spam")
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/freeze-and-the-people-vs-svgr-the-prelude-yes-we-can-help-also-wanted--744293/1/20#comments
Question.
How can Romania and Indonesia be such powers with the income tax rate at 5% and 1% respectively? What do they do, that we don't?
"control of the highest quality Mexican hospital"
You will just destroy it.
to start with they do not devalue there own currency in which we do so that the elite can make tons of money while the rest of us suffer. And by elite I mean the people that are currently running our country not the congress but the ones behind the sence and ofcorse anyone who beleives that 500 USD is pocket change, lol.
Turkey it is not a PEACE country anymore. They leave the alliance because the Security Council of PEACE ask them to free Israel and Greece!
@Desertfalcon
Hungary should also keep in mind Romania might take advantage of you all leaving to fight in Mexico.
I dont think, our walls are high, our mpps would activate and the bit of positive relations would go back to zero wich would hurt their plans to go east. And half hungary is always abroad, with no high regions.
DF 4 Prez!!!!
Mindflay, do you know of any good articles that talks about how the value of the currency effects the economy?
I have been only really paying attention the past week yet I have already developed a pet peeve. That pet peeve is "this is a game and not rl" crowd which is there excuse for ignoring the numbers generated by the game and what the numbers tell them. As a RL conservative, it is sad to see eRomania and eIndonesia apparently follow RL conservative principles (low taxes, strong military) and have the largest economy in the eWorld, yet eUSA denies the possibilities and ignores the etruth. Now maybe Romania and Indonesia use etricks such as...well the only etrick I know of is PTO, and maybe that is how they fund their government. Has anyone written any articles on this...I would say a winning platform would be one based on the Romania and Indonesia model, which would uphold conservative principles.
I predict the eConservative party will fall apart soon because of this statement by their president "We don't force a particular belief down anyone's throat here " which translate to...we do not have a core set of principles upon which we as a party agree. If that is true, why be a member of that party...or any party. Seems to me it is time to create a coalition based on principles.
Ananias, Donovanator personally believes in low taxes and military funding. He is not the CVP in any sort, way, or fashion. Many people in the CVP have different viewpoints, which is why it is taking us a while to write our Manifesto.
We are working to write our manifesto with all of our beliefs in it, because many people have misconceptions about the CVP.
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Good article DesertFalcon! ÜberPwnage!
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i like it.
Good push.
Why would we, the other Atlantis members want you sitting in our forums while talking to other nations and searching for an alternative alliance?
You ask for permission to access the Atlantis forums and informations and you will use it against Atlantis while you form the new alliance right?
I don't get it.
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yeah, funding is a big issue as many people have pointed out. With the tax cuts you plan on bringing, we won't have proper funding for the military to win wars. It's one thing to say you're going to continue USA military growth and build up our strength and power, however it's another thing to make it happens, and cutting the supply of military money is not a great way to do that.
your outlook on Mexico and the third alliance are original and very promising. I think there great
What's your policy on how the National Guard is ran?
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http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-acumulado-venda-dos-bilhetes-para-o-sorteio-de-7-de-mar-o-de-2009-744881/1/20