A Hope in Unity - Nea Milosu for December
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by BogdanFV
I got complaints that this platform may be to long and I have to agree that 2800 words might be a lot for some people that have better things to do so I provided you with a TL/DR version of the platform, enjoy!
TL/DR
Accountability, Transparency and Security
Inform everyone with changes or decisions that are made by the cabinet and congress via an article at least once every 2 days.
Bring transparency to a new level this will include a public budget, a fully transparent cabinet with the forum open to every Canadian citizen, etc.
Implement a system that guarantees our organizations will be harder to steal in the future.
Military:
Reform the CAF and start cutting down their funds to an acceptable level by changing the very mode it operates.
Increase TCO funding to 7000 CAD .
Create the war council, uniting all the great military minds of the country no matter their political color or military membership.
Foreign Affairs:
Reform the Council of Foreign Relations uniting our former great diplomats and MoFAs under the same banner.
Restart the Ambassadorial program with a 3 stage term for ambassadors.
Economy:
Drop the CAD to 40 CAD per gold and make money in doing so.
Open the markets to imports by reducing the import tax to 15% in all sectors.
Encourage export through trade agreements with neutral or allied countries.
Baby Boom and Education
Encourage all attempts to create a baby-boom in Canada.
Implement a national Mentor-ship program.
Reactivate Health Canada and supply new citizens with food and wellness when they make their first steps into the new world.
Some of you may be wondering why I choose “A hope in unity” as my campaign slogan and as my platform title. I will try my best to answer that to the best of my ability. At present, most of my friends and people that form my team Canada and I believe that Canada’s biggest problem right now is its lack of unity. The fact that we are battling an imagined adversary within instead of the real enemy outside. Make no mistake; I believe that change must be brought and I believe that the points brought up in the last few days are valid. I believe that these issues must be addressed and fixed but I believe we have to do it as one, as a team, with one soul and one desire. United under the same banner: A better Canada.
That is why my main goal this month isn't to bring 2000 Gold to the country’s bank, or to conquer London or Paris, or to increase the help we provide to our newer players. My main goal this month is to make Canadians unite in a reconstruction effort. Sure, like any presidential candidate I dream of making this country great, expanding our territories, increasing our economic capacity and raising our active population but that is my second priority. The most important & main priority is to get together & unite like we have never been before.
Before you draw the gun and say that we do not need a united country or we can do just fine the way we are let me ask you a few questions: Where are we now? At the gates of London? How did we get here? By being divided? Then I ask you, if we managed to get here in our current state of affairs, what will stop us from achieving much more once we untie? I tell you that nothing can stand in our path when we are united, nothing can stop us when we start fighting as one, when we start shouting as one. Nothing in God's green Earth can derail us from our tracks when we have set our minds on one thing and pursue it with every inch of ambition and might we may have. Nothing I tell you, NOTHING!
If you are still skeptical and think that it is just a political speech or this is just a speech for the troops or if you believe that this is just something I am saying to get your support, then let me give you an example. Summer of 2009, more than a year passed since we were conquered and our fate seemed grim and without hope, what did we do then? Did we surrender and gave up the fight? No, we united under the same banner and started fighting for the liberation of this country. Nothing stood between us and our goal and we faced powerful enemies: United Kingdom, France, Iran and Hungary. No one was able to stop us from liberating our country. Why were they unable to stop us? Because we were united and because we had our allies’ support. Make no mistake; our allies were important but they only came to our aid because they saw we were united, because they believed we were worth it.
Accountability, Transparency and Security
One of the biggest problems that was raised during this last few days was the lack of accountability and transparency both in the government and in the national army and I tend to agree that a real government, a serious government needs to keep its citizens informed and up to speed with changes and decisions. That is why I came up with a plan designed to solve this problem for good.
Public Records
Public records of costs & spendings made by both the Canadian Armed Forces and the Government. The creation of a single spreadsheet designed to centralize all spending done within a month and bringing it to the public. This spending will not only be visible to you but will be clarified to you so that you know what was done and why! Sure, this can increase bureaucracy, sure it will make it harder for the Ministry of Finance and for the Canadian Armed Forces to keep up with the constant change of things but it will bring a much needed change to our government, it will give you a government that not only will be able to earn your trust but will also do whatever it takes to keep you informed and satisfied.
Communication
I plan to take this ministry into a whole new level with articles released every 2 days. The team behind the Ministry of Communication will be created from our finest journalists. These men and women will have the job of getting every decision our government makes out into the media and explain to our citizens why we did this and how. An informed citizen is a powerful citizen. Bringing the information to you will be an essential step in creating a transparent government that will accept its mistakes as well as work with its citizens on repairing them.
Security
During the past month it has become more and more clear that Canada needs to find a way to better secure it's wealth from theft or loss that is why I would like to propose a system design to secure our in-game Organization from theft. This plan is not bullet-proof and I think we shall never find a bullet-proof plan. All we can hope to achieve is an increase in our governments assets security. I plan to install a secure e-mail for every organization. The e-mails would be hosted on the same servers that host our forums. The President, Speaker of Congress and one elected member of the Administration team would have access to those email but only with each-others approval.This system would be hard to implement but I hope myself, neoice and Kronos_Q can figure it out in useful time.
Military
This past few weeks have been a mess with the conflict between TCO and CAF reaching new heights and this is a problem that affects our entire country because a divided army is an army doomed to fail on the battlefield. You can argue all you want about the relevance this conflict has on the battlefield but the truth is at the end of the day if CAF and TCO do not cooperate, they do not coordinate to make their damage count. I plan to address this problem from three different angles:
TCO: I understand that TCO is angry at Canada for not receiving more money, more support from Canada to help them supply their members with adequate numbers of food and weapons but at the same time I understand that Canada can't offer the 15 000 Cad they requested and so should they. I plan to increase their funding to what I consider an adequate level that can both sustain the TCO and not harm our economy. I hope TCO will accept this extra funding and prove to Canada that they can be as mature and responsible as they ought to be.
CAF: As some citizens pointed out recently, the CAF has its problems. It did not see any real reform in quite some time and frankly it is not functioning machine it used to be. What I plan to do is to start a reform inside the CAF, a reform that will transform the CAF into a professional army that truly sacrifices everything they have for Canada. At this moment every penny in the CAF budget goes to buying weapons from our markets and food to supply to soldiers and as it is right now it cannot continue. We are spending far too much money for the amount of damage we are making. As a president I will work with my Minister of Defense (raw784) to start the implementation of a self-funded CAF. In theory the CAF wouldn't need any more money except for salaries (minimum salary for every CAF soldier), raw materials and food. This may seem farfetched at this time but keep in mind that it means a drop of 40% in CAF related spending. This may not seem much now but it actually means that Canada will save over 10k CAD per week and that means over 40k per month which is about 1400 Gold, just by being smart about how we spend our money.
CAF and TCO: The need to coordinate these 2 armies has become more and more vital. We need to act now, that is why I am proposing the formation of the War Council. This council will be formed by the President, Vice-President, MoD, dMoD (if any) and CAF and TCO high ranking officials. This structure will not only be used to coordinate the efforts TCO and CAF bring to the battlefield but also to help the President get more opinions on how the war is going and how it should proceed. Everything from national war strategy to funding and plans to increase damage output. I know this will not be a popular move on either side but I can only hope that both parties can act in a mature way now that Canada needs them!
Foreign Affairs Perspective
I my opinion our Foreign Affairs department barely exists. We lack a complete and competent team of ambassadors or a goal in our foreign affairs policy or any direction in this sector at the current moment. Yes, it is true most of our allies understood and they only kept discussions at the highest level only but this cannot continue. This is why I am proposing the re-formation of the Council of Foreign Relations. Instead of trusting a single man (Minister of Foreign Affairs; Treian) with the decisions related to Foreign Affairs, I plan to bring back this team of specialists which will have the sole purpose of rethinking a different strategy for Canada and implementing it. The formation of the Council of Foreign Relations is just the first step but it will be the solid foundation on which our team of ambassadors will be formed in the future.
Economy
As the new world progressed we watched as Canada's economy remained closed and cut-off from the world. We invested a lot of effort into keeping our national dollar at a high price and we never thought twice about it> I think it is time we re-think our national economy. It is time we drop this isolation policy and open our markets to the wold. Currently our prices are ridiculous and they continue to go up. Intervention is needed. During my term I will work with my Financial team and hopefully lower the CAD to a value of aprox 0.025-0.026. I did the math and it seems that this value will best suit our economy. It will allow us to import goods easier and it will allow our markets to export to different countries. The market will feel some trembles for a short period of time but in time as it will adjust it will grow stronger and more reliable. What does this consist from a purely game-mechanics point of view? Printing a large sum of CAD and slowly converting it into gold so that we make the CAD drop in value, I want to do this slowly so that people don't lose entire fortunes over-night. As this will be done we will move to phase 2 of the plan, dropping our import taxes on all markets to 10-15%. This may seem a little drastic but consider that foreign investors will have to sell a whole 13% cheaper in our markets in order to be competitive. With this kind of policy and a 15% import tax we stand to make a lot more money then we currently do, we drop the prices in Canada to a healthy standard and we also keep our own companies protected.
Baby Boom and Education
I have to admit I am not a believer in a baby boom myself anymore but I have to agree that we need a way to keep our newest citizens informed and ready to go. That is why my team and I will analyze the message new players receive when they register and provide an adequate setup for it with proper links to the various mentorship programs out there, charities as well as the forums, IRC and the really good tutorials. To quote what I said on a previous date, a baby-boom cannot be achieved unless the community is united or you are a millionaire in real life. Since we are lacking the second option, I think if we want to boost our ranks we need to work together, united so we can come up with plans, ideas and then put them in action. For example: one of my plans is a Facebook campaign associated with an ongoing forum campaign. This won't bring us a baby-boom but it may bring us a few good people in our ranks and each and every one of them is worth the effort!
Unity and Prosperity
Like I said at the beginning, my main goal this month won't be to achieve military greatness or get 3000 Gold in our bank, my main goal this month will be to create a secure government, a government capable of uniting Canada, uniting the new with the old, uniting the CAF with the TCO, uniting Canadians under the same banner. This will indeed be one of the hardest goals I have ever attempted to reach in this game but it is one I will gladly try to accomplish. My first plan would be to create a governing team that will represent all sides of Canada. This cabinet would be mostly formed by advisory positions designed to get one opinion or another closer to my view and closer to achievement. But unity doesn't stop at a diverse cabinet nor it should. I plan to be a representative for all Canadians, no matter their political allegiance or their membership in a group or another. Uniting a land means listening to every opinion or concern citizens may have. I will try to be impartial, forget my party membership, forget the fact that I am a CAF officer and just do my best for this country.
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"Implement a system that guarantees our organizations will be harder to steal in the future."
is there any real way to do that? i mean somewhere someone has to have keys to these orgs... you yourself lost the password to an org for 3 months wasn't it?
also doesn't give people more access to the root emails open up more potential for theft due to password recovery?
wouldn't an easier way be for money to stay in the ingame country accounts until needed and then authorized by congress?
@thebigguy
Storing everything in the treasury is the worst way to run a country. Only one donation can be done daily and it takes 24h to execute. It's over 23hours too much usually. National Bank Organization is a must have.
Nea has my support!
thebigguy not realy because we won't give more people access to the orgs or the emails. They will be held with the passwords on the Canadian forums and to access them you would need 3 keys/passwords. Read the bigger version of that point as I detailed it there.
And yes you are correct, I did lost one org due to real life problems and that is what I plan to avoid.
overall sounded good, i didn't really understand the forum method because i am not a huge forumer. It just seems like no matter what happens unless we elect someone we can trust money will be able to be stolen.
2'nd question, i see you plan to increase TCO funding to 7000 cad.. is that per week? will this cut into the CAF budget?
Yes that is per week and no that won't cut into the CAF budget. Another thing I want to do is separate the to units in terms of fundings.
Note: TCO currently gets 5000 CAD per week.
If I was a CAF soldier I would be wondering what my "minimum salary" would be.
And I dont get the impression that TCO is angry at not recieving more funding.
So more funding for TCO and slave pits for CAF soldiers, whats not to like!
psst TCO gets 3000 a week
pssst TCO get's 500) CAD per week 😉
not according to the budget
There's no anger in TCO over extra funding. Anything we receive is a bonus.
Remember when Fram/nea milosu stole from the Romanian government and came to Canada?
Remember when Fram/nea milosu got banned for multies?
Remember when Fram/nea milosu dissapeared halfway through his Presidential term?
Remember when Fram/nea milosu "lost" 2600 gold when he was President last time?
Seems just like the guy for the CP job to me.
The article is kind of vague on the how the unity will be created. Could you be more specific?
TCO does not receive 5000 CAD per week, as people have mentioned, it is 3000 as per the budget.
Secondly there is no anger in TCO regarding the funding. More the merrier of course
Just wanted to clarify will read the rest and post my opinion later
Ok, I would like to make a correction as Zeshan and crisfire stated, TCO only get's 3000 CAD per week. I apologize for the mistake.
Also only atoms unity is not an easy task. It is hard to achieve what I want to do is lay the foundation for a healthier and more united community. A president is the leader of the community and as a president I would try to be as impartial as possible that is why if elected I would quit any party affiliations. I have friends on every side of the rift. TCOers, CAFers, Role-players, mechanics adepts. I consider myself a balanced person that can reach out and listen to both side of the stories and when needed be unbiased. That is how I plan to achieve unity, inspire it. Be an example to the others.
Nea, I agree wholeheartedly with your proposal for CAF soldiers to work in CAF companies producing CAF weapons and food. I have advocated that in the CAF for the better part of a year.
However, cutting its budget further is dangerous. A limited budget means limited damage. Offensive actions will be unwinnable, so that means eCanada will be strictly on the defensive with perhaps occasional help to EDEN allies.
Also, consider the long term effects on the CAF. Budget cuts means the CAF will need to redirect more of its funds to heavy-hitting senior soldiers to eek out as much damage as possible. This will be at the expense of advancing its junior soldiers. And that means no new blood and that's short-sighted.
Although I agree with the CAF producing CAF weapons, I don't think you have considered the effect on the economy. Currently, the CAF buys from eCanadian suppliers at market price. Using exclusively CAF-built weapons will probably devastate private manufacturers and the jobs they create. This, in turn, will contract the economy and reduce tax revenues for the government.
Unum you raise valid points and I will try to explain my views and hopefully you will come to see it as I do.
The cut I plan to do in the CAF's budget will not effect it's damage output nor will it effect the aid it gives to the new or younger players. Why? Because every CAFer will produce it's own weapons and the only thing the government will pay will be a 1.2 CAD salary, raw materials for that weapon and money for food. Like I said this will drop 1400 Gold from the current money spent on the CAF and that will be the budgetary cut I plan to do.
Secondly I do not plan to move the entire CAF in companies in one day, nor do I plan to do it in one month. This would be done during the entire term and maybe I will not manage to do it up to 100%, to be honest I would be happy only with 50% but a demonstration that this idea is valid. This process will be a slow one and CAFers will need to adjust to a new way of fighting and a new meaning to being a member of the CAF. I am aware of what impact such a move can have on our job market but I plan to take every precaution possible to ensure that the effect is reduced to a minimum and that it won't affect our job market on the long term.
good luck Nea! 😉
I would like to see your calculations which prove that moving all CAF soldiers to CAF companies would eliminate the need for funding while still outputting the same amount of damage.
Cheers Nea Milosu.
15k per week would be better 😁
good luck mate. Bafta 🙂
I love when the CAF argues that taking CAF members out of public companies will hinder the economy. That argument is rubbish. How many people are in the CAF? How many are actively employed? I am willing to bet its around 100. Taking 100 people out of the public workforce is hardly going to cripple the economy.
Let them make their own weapons and work for CAF companies...either than or cut their ration of...oh I dont know...80 CAD/Day??? Come on CAF, you can't have it both ways. Either work for what you get or take a hell of a lot less.
Its called not having your cake and eating it too...welcome to the real world.
I question your lack of loyalty. You immediately left the DAL after you lost the nomination. Are you a quitter, or what?
Supabeasty, I am not a quiter and the fact that I am still in this race after I lost my own parties nomination proves that I am not such a man.
As for leaving the DAL, I only left to continue my run and bring that change I am dreaming of to Canada.
Punisher, thank you!
TemujinBC thank you, good luck to you as well!
GeluRomanu, thank you for your comment!
My dear friend Acacia, thank you for making a comment here but let's not launch any attacks right now? This is the time when out attack is our vote. Vote for the man who would change this status quo!
And Kronos Q the math behind it is very simple. Take the 4k CAD spent on the CAF daily. Out of this 2k CAD is actually spent on weapons. Instead of paying the full price pay the raws which are about 900 CAD and for every 2 weapons add 1.2 CAD which is an extra 120 CAD. Raising the total money spent on the CAF at aprox 3000, that's 25 % money saved per day, 1000 CAD per day multiply that with the number of days in a month and you get quite a handsome number also thank you for your comment!
"Taking 100 people out of the public workforce is hardly going to cripple the economy."
Acacia, I assume your comment is directed to me. If so, what I said wasn't that taking 100 people out of free market jobs would hurt the economy (though personal income tax revenue *would* drop a bit). What I said was that the CAF would no longer be buying its weapons in the free market. Now *that* would hurt manufacturers.
As I said earlier, I have advocated for CAF soldiers working in CAF companies producing CAF weapons for a long time. I'm just pointing out to Nea that there can be unintended consequences from an action. It makes sense to phase in Nea's proposal gently to avoid big shocks to the market, but that will postpone the budget savings.
Nea, have you factored into your budget figures the cost of establishing CAF companies? That's a lotta' gold. In the past, that was always the main impediment to my proposals to establish CAF companies.
I like the man, I love the plan.
Good luck Fram.
Unum yes I did!
M Loiselle thank you!
If the reform happened where the CAF had to work for their weapons i would resign.
Focussing financial skill into weapons rather than training will weaken your army over time. Long term gain is strength/Econ skill gain not rank gain.
Good Luck Fram
Let them make their own weapons and work for CAF companies...either than or cut their ration of...oh I dont know...80 CAD/Day??? Come on CAF, you can't have it both ways. Either work for what you get or take a hell of a lot less.
Where do you see 80 cad a day? And uh, I need my boosters so no thanks bro.
Good Luck!
Everyone over the last two years has forgotten what the CAF is about and its purpose to ecanada beyond a fighting force and I could spend the time trying to explain it.
But no one will really care so why bother and I just dont have it in me to try.
Anyways, good luck there Fram and I do hope this time you can get through a full term.
Cutting import taxes is good, even lower than 15%. Anyhow, it's more of a Congressional thing, and you will have to convince them to see beyond protectionism for the good of everybody, not just a select few.
Awesome plateform, good luck !
Whopping big platform. Will need to read this in stages.
you know it's tl;dr when the author cba to proof read.
good luck NeaMilosu!
fram is gonna win, i can feel it
Good Luck Fram! Once again, I think this is gonna be an exciting country president election.
Your logic is flawed, nea milosu.
It is no doubt that paying every CAF member 1.2CAD a day is cheaper than supplying them with weapons/food. My question included them maintaining the same damage output as they do now.
I would like to see your calculations that the CAF have enough productivity to supply themselves. If TCO (just as an example of a commune) doesn't have enough productivity amongst themselves to be self-sufficient, why would the CAF?
😁^ because they have way more skilled members who can produce.
I love Kronos Q, always a stickler for the details....thankfully.
Your logic is flawed (x2)
The CAF doesn't act the same way as a militia.
We simply ask people to stay mobile and to be ready to fight, and give them weapons to do so in the most appropriate place.
The CAF can NOT produce enough for it's own sufficience.
Canada is at risk, do you really want to place someone who will cut funding on our military?
And Fram: This is a war game where in the world do you place money if not in soldier supplies? In tanks? Very fun for the average soldier to see someone in incredibly good conditions getting paid to fight, just because the joined earlier.
People of Canada, in these difficult times, let's unite. JOIN THE CAF OR JOIN TCO. WE NEED SOLDIERS, NOT POLITICIANS WHO SPEND THEIR TIMES DISCUSSING.
Oh, and I'm not even getting near the question of CAF membership being halved.
Jsboutin is a wise man
A huge boon to the CAF is its ability to provide supplies to soldiers without having them work for low wages, this is a huge attraction, especially to new players.
Focus should be spent on getting eCanadians into the CAF and TCO, it keeps people in the game so that we have soldiers fighting and citizens working, spending and paying taxes.
Putting the CAF into lower paying jobs IMHO would be a mistake and would weakin us as a country.
I'm sorry Nea, but I do disagree about your idea to have the national army working this way.
The Canadian Armed Force is not a militia; It is THE ARMY! It is the army of the country, working to the interest of the country. Ready to do what the CP ask to do.
The CAF must be the STRONGER "weapon" of the eCanada.
To be able to do it, the way we are doing is not as bad as some persons would like to convice others ppl. Before saying the CAF is not efficiency, I would like to ask to any people to look themself, and tell me if every one is so perfect!
The CAF and his commanders are trying to do theirs best, and I would say, with the help we have, it is not that bad.
I desagree to see the CAF soldiers having to work for the CAF organisations. I am very concern about the eCanadian economy, that it will be finally in the hands of the CAF.
The future is in a strong army, controled by his own country. This is what you got. Dont do a mistake by loosing a tool who took years to built.
bravo nea milosu... don't listen to these entrenched CAF. All that they are worried about is that the milk they are sucking from the tax payers tit will run out.
a work for weapons program would be more efficient... TCO has proved it, the CAF should DO IT.
IF CAF members really care about doing the most damage for Canada than they would do this and we would know that every bit of effort goes towards damage. Whereas now we have no idea where the money goes
of course if you try there will probably be another long sword rebellion
To be fair Rainer the TCO does not supply everyday or near as much as the CAF does, if eCanada wants to be strong offensively and defensively it needs to spend money on its militaries, cuase really what else are we going to spend it on?
Its all about whats best for eCanada not each individual organization, a fully funded CAF is whats best for eCanada for damage output and recruitment appeal imho.
To Kronos that asked me how would the CAF get the same damage outpot. Kronos, curently the CAF gets weapons worth 30-40 CAD every day. Now I don't know about you but I am a level 10 and I make 2+ q5 tanks per day without any boosters that's more then 70 CAD wrorth so yeah the damage output will remain the same if not maybe even increase a little.
Jsboutin, Raw and Rainer maybe that is now the CAF works today but it should be changed. Yes it is true the only eral thing you can spend the money is on WAR and getting more damage but that doesn't mean we have to spend it all in one place all at the same time. Maybe we can save a buck in CAF and use it more strategically . If you think the CAF stops at supplies then you are wrong and you understood the CAF wrong.
The cost per damage ratio will drop massively in this system, meaning that when Canada want to go to war and really do some damage, more CAD spend can be used to increase the damage output massively more than it is now.
As to anything economy related, see my discussion with Etemanaki (I still don't know how to spell his/her name off the top of my head), on the forums. I've explain there how changes to the economy and military will go hand in hand, which is what Nea Milosu has got planned.