What is Wrong with Australia
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by Jasper Ferguson
Recently Dartreal and the Department of Baby Boom have been working overtime, spending their days working on ways to attract new players to eRepublik. The results have been quite dramatic, which has led to some unintended consequences. Australia is now experiencing more new players a day than it has seen in recent months and because of that, the skill 0 jobs have been only erratically available. Nothing will get a new player to quit faster than creating a character in a country and finding that they can’t even get a job.
Not wanting to see Dartreal’s hard work wasted, I got together with Adam Creed (Minister of Industry) and Venja (Deputy Minister of Finance) during budget discussions to see if we could come up with a practical solution that would minimize costs to Australia and help keep down budget costs. The only land company that the government owned as an iron company and since Australia has only medium iron, this was a very inefficient way to approach the problem, because we need a place for manufacturing workers to get jobs as well. If we continued with the iron company and weapons company approach, we would be spending a large amount of tax dollars to purchase iron on the market to keep the weapons company supplied.
The solution that was arrived at was that it would be far more efficient to operate if we used a diamond and gift companies since we could move the resources from one in sufficient quantities to minimize costs. Once the solution was found, the next hurdle was how the startup money for these companies would be obtained. While the funds could have been obtained in a week or so by normal procedure in the Australian Senate, this would have meant adding 40 gold to the monthly budget, which we were already cutting heavily and would also have resulted in 30 to 40 new players a day finding that the game they just signed up to play had no jobs for them. That would result in 210 to 280 players in a week likely quitting before they had even begun their journey in eRepublik. Since the goal was not to lose any more players than we already had due to the job shortage, we decided to “pass the hat” and collect donations to fund the company privately. Within a few minutes Adam Creedy pledged 20 gold, I pledged 2 gold, Venja pledged 2 gold and Dartreal, in the interest of helping the new players he was attracting, pledged the remaining 16 gold. Schoft, when he was informed of the plan also made a generous donation of diamonds from his own company to help get the gift company started. Since these 2 new companies will only have job offers listed at minimum wage, the operating costs will be minimal in the future. If both companies had an average of 50 new players in them during the month, the government costs would be 3k AUD for the month. New players are the future of the nation, they are the future Senate leaders, party members, military, employees and company owners that will help Australia thrive.
We asked no thanks for this, because it is the right thing for players in a position to help others to do just that. Some Senate leaders however have taken issue with this, because we didn’t follow Senate procedure and have even gone so far as to start an IG investigation into us for being so dastardly as to dare donate companies for the betterment of the country.
http://community.auserepublik.com/index.php?topic=7515.0
In the Senate discussion thread about the companies in question, Xavier Griffith decided to attack the Cabinet for daring to help new players. He stated that it is not the governments job to help new players and suggested that the companies be shut down, the new players fired and if others started the game and quit because they couldn’t find work, then it was just too bad. XG cares more about his precious red tape procedures than the new players and wellbeing of the nation.
http://community.auserepublik.com/index.php?topic=7491.0
Xavier Griffith and others whose only concern is procedure over results have no business being in the government. They should, for the betterment of the nation, resign their Senate position. It is the responsibility of leadership to identify problems and find solutions to them. If the solutions also save the Australian tax payers money in the process, it should not be a criminal act. What was done was in the best interest of Australia and I will not apologize for it
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i see both sides of the coin here,i personally think its great u guys made this donation however i believe the problem lies in the future running of these companys.I understand its a small increase in the future budgets to keep them running but not going thru correct protocol will always lead to where we are at now.
Having skill zero jobs is vital for every country. It's a shame some people don't get that.
Not only are the ministers being investigated, but the people who donated gold to the government are being investigated for breaking the law. Plus the investigation request recommends that Cerb be impeached if it is found that these actions were against the law.
A presidential impeachment, ministers and others sanctioned because some patriots donated to the country in its time of need to save a baby boom? This is toxic politics at its worst. This is dictatorial tyranny on the part of a few.
The idea is that there wasnt any extra cost. It was designed to move employees from 1 gfc to another but more efficient gfc.
i agree its vital but bypassing the senate is just asking for trouble imo.Im all for reducing red tape but you also could have run these privately to offer these jobs and asked the senate approval in the meantime to buy them off you for those reasons you have listed.But i also know how the senate has its share of problems and res tape and do understand your methods.I would rather see a inquiry into how these situations could be avoided or better resolved than a IG inquiry into code of conduct
I hope the IG comes back and sees that the hearts were in the right place. But, the problem is that we can't always depend on everyone's heart to be in the right place, and so starting a GFC without approval opens the door to everyone trying to do the same thing.
Honestly, I think no disciplinary action should be warranted, and I trust that H.Nelson will do the right thing. And trying to pull the CP into this - that actually "de-legitimizes" the whole inquiry, IMO.
If I can make a recommendation - rather than going through the government, just keep it as a private business owned by those who donated. Then, petition to "sell" the business to the government. If the government agrees to buy, all is well. If not, then just do the best you can to keep those jobs around for the newbies.
Of course, no profit will ever be made, and more than likely will be a drain on resources, so if the government passes hopefully there are other patriots out there that would be willing to lend some cash to help keep the company afloat.
just keep up the infighting..lol....that is goin to be australia's undoing as you all have to fight each other. i say impeach everyone, die against brazil and start over from nothing. then maybe you all might just get it. again, maybe not...lol.
go back to reading Brazil media howie, we have no use for traitor's like yourself here
Why all the fuss? This sort of stuff needs to just be done sometimes. Going through the Senate takes time. Remind me why this is a bad thing? Aren't we helping new players?
@Howie- you are a traitor get out of eAus media. We don't need your scum here.
I don't quite see the problem here tbh.
Go die in a Brazilian carjacking Howiedark.
I think a sanction proposal is a massive over-reaction but at the same time the process was out of order. These GFCs are not free to run, they will cost many thousands of taxpayer dollars and wouldn't it be sad if the government set them up without consulting the Senate and then the next month the senate decides not fund them.
What is wrong with eAustralia is that people keep saying something is wrong. Dont know if anyone knows anything about economics but one of the biggest things is confidence. It is about time we started talking the place up - you might be surprised how looking on the bright side of life actually makes you feel good inside too. We have a lot of assets it is about time we took on the challenges offered to us in this place rather than just look to knock every time someone makes a move. If you want to critise offer a constructive alternative rather than beat someone over the head. Bottom line = we need to permanently have jobs on the market for newbies - that is really a no brainer.
This sounds like a great plan, you spend a little of the Governments money and you get an influx of new players.
The pollies who are against this need to get out of their ivory towers and start supporting new players.
Perhaps some Senators are worried that the new players will start voting in elections and vote them out of their cushy positions.
Dont worry, days later you can find many new jobs in Indonesia
Respect
Masila