[MDP] Tomorrow & Yesterday in Congress

Day 2,408, 14:26 • Published in Canada Canada • by Johnny Cache

Don't think twice, it's alright

"Time was wasted. Time is precious. Vote for people who know the right move from the start."


Introduction:
I'm the one they call JC. See, I am not at all the type to sit down and write long articles or speeches. I see enough long winded ramblings in the media to know I could not add considerable value to it. Thus I am a man of few words, I get my voice and thoughts out through the friends feed and the challenge of fitting thoughts into the short limited space is quite entertaining in a strange kind of way. This means it takes something special to force me to sit down and pick up the virtual pen.

I'm also a man of few responsibilities, however those few responsibilities I've accepted with careful considerations making failure inevitable. Same point as above.


I'll be the same through all that we go through.
I promise you, I promise you.

This month has been interesting. I've had the pleasure to be part of the Congress. I've never been the one to play political games for the sake of political games. My only concern has been what is good for Canada overall. This has and will always reflect in my actions. My affiliations with parties or military units are relevant to the point there is no conflict between the wellbeing of the country and the position of the organisation. I could care less whether an idea comes from a rival party or an official ally. If it's good then my support is there. If it's bad it will get shot down.

However apparently this is not how Congress operates. This relates back to the infamous tax drama earlier this month. The records can be checked, from the start till the end of the whole drama I (+ a few other smart players) were trying to push through the 5% work tax rate. It was clear that it was needed in the long-term view. Having successfully defeated USA (with huge inevitable material costs) and for future warplanning, it was clear that Canada would need to severely raise taxes. Not even going to waste space describing what other ideas were proposed. Safe to say they were either not thought through or not effective enough. The short story is we could see the need for 5% WT from a mile away. Meanwhile others were actively downplaying the idea. So in the end the 3% WT was implemented. And clearly too low it was to build any reasonable reserves.



A few weeks later and our President, quite strongly affiliated with the earlier 5% WT naysayers, strolls through the building with this "great new" idea. "Why don't we implement a 5% work tax to gather some resources". And the idea catches fire, (almost) no opposition to it. Everyone agrees. Suddenly this becomes a good idea. I supported it as this was exactly what I was preaching weeks ago and I have no problems with supporting ideas from opposing parties. I've continously praised DMV and the government (consisting of almost unanimously of opposing party individuals) for their right doings and questioned the questionable ones. Even during the times when my party has been highly critical for various reasons.

So I am not the one to block a good idea because this came from the wrong individual. However this seems to be what exactly happened here. Either Congress has a lot of slow people who take weeks to get a hold of things (highly undoubtful) or the initial idea just came from the wrong people. Either way, wasting time I cannot stand. The same idea was in front of everyone weeks before and suddenly this only was realized to be a good one after certain weeks went by and someone else proposed it. This is what I call playing political games for the sake of political games. Clearly not at all trying to protect nor represent the wellbeing of the population.



SHORT SUMMARY
"We were bringing out and backing the right idea weeks before others. This got caught up in the political games of the opposing parties, who only weeks later came to the same conclusion and raised the exact same idea. Time was wasted. Time is precious. Vote for people who know the right move from the start, vote MDP."

As I said, I'm not the one to play party politics. But this type of moronic, time-wasting behaviour from people angers me enough to make me write propaganda.

jc.

Ready for another crapstorm in Congress