Lets think a bit!
Releasethe Krakken
Secret Treasury v Full Financial Reports
Secret Treasury
The argument is that our "enemies" will assess our strength.
What enemies? For a nation who proud himself on his small stature but large fight. We are probably the nation who does the least fighting. Cowards? Sissy Boys that runs to mommy when they get a beating?
In all my years here we had about probably 30 days of being involved in fighting. Maybe more but ask any mercenary medal hunter and he will tell you the one nation you never get is Ireland.
So again what enemies? Uk is our friends now. Canada is our friends. The USA is our friends. Asteria wont attack us.
But here we stop again assess our strength. Lets say we have 4.5 million thats about 560000 Q7 WEPS every soldier can get if we are indeed only 100 active players:5600 Q7 WEPS. So we want to hide our superior finances a thing that will install fear within our enemies.
I am going by the last financial report that uncovered about 3.4 million and subsequent winnings and reports by Appleman where he claimed an income of 100000 profit a month.
"A would be thief would see that we have lots and try and access our finances"
He could only use 2 modes of operation : become Cp
PTO.
As to PTO it would be visible and we would have plenty of time to withdraw all money.
CP: Well a CP could always steal our money. Anyone. But we elect him. So we our bound by our choice. Its for our parties to suss out good solid candidates.
But remember we are not saying put the money to the disposal of the CP all we ask is information. The MOF could say in this org we have so much we have so much on the MM and in my account we have so much.
But generally we would be able to see what kind of person is CP and adjust our strategy accordingly.
Also the thief thing is like a lottery. THere is so much candidates available some countries that make 200 times a day what we make. All information can be gathered by following the Monetary Market and common logic. Every country no matter how small and large will have a set "target" Lets say Belguim probably 10 million. I dont even have to check. Country much smaller than us but only with old rich players. There you little thief get.
Full Financial Reports
What is the advantage of a full financial report:
1. Its an important check and balance.
It provides the media and opposition parties a point of reference to judge the financial prowess or lack of prowess of the MOF.
2. Its vital information
CP candidates and congress members as well as the media should be able to use this information in their planning and articles and proposals.
If I propose 10 Q7 WEPS to each Irish soldier not only the Irish Army and 500 Q1 food. I now have the information to work out whether this is a good proposal. People can meaningfully counter it and not only by ad hominem attacks.
Problems can be identified early on and remedies suggested. Opportunities can also be highlighte
😛Our MM now offers a golden opportunity to gain strides. Yet we have no information on command of our "incompetent" Cp. A person who cant pull out a calculator and do a basic math calculation that will show her there is now a golden opportunity that we cannot let pass.
c. Skimming and thefts by MOFS can be identified.
My people why do you worry about the CP stealing everything when there is a person who each day can steal and skim of the books. And we are just blind to it.
My friends because of this 7000 Gold may or may not have been stolen. We will never know? There is no real total of what we had before and there is no total afterwards.
d. Full disclosure of interest.
In the USA companies have to declare if they supported a party. Why because that is vital information that should be usable. At some point Appleman declared all of the treasury as "investments" of private benefactors.
We need to see when a MOF /CP supports certain players because they invested say 1 million in the country. We need to see influence and how it was gained.
e.. How much the MOF has in his account
Mof is simply a single point of failure. If he have 3 million in his account and he is banned we have no information to go to the admins with. Oh he had money in his account. "Sorry unless you can give an exact amount we cant help you"
f. It builds the team
If everyone is onboard and can discuss all decisions of government we will be a tighter knit unit. The opposite is unfortunately also true.
Ad hominem attacks can be inserted in the comments below. That's anyway all the thinking your capable of.
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Well thought out article.
Congratulations RTK \o/
It goes to show, if you are going to argue with him, think your argumentation out and be sure of your facts.
Any BS 'blow him off" comment will be shot down in flames.
note: I am not inserting myself into Irish matters - I just happen to like well thought articles, from anybody
thx boudicca
Rubbish, Boudica! We couldn't keep you away from Irish matters with a pitchfork!
the use of pitchfork is important boudicca
I did think that RTK, could it have been a freudian slip?
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lol
Have you hired a publisher? I approach the spellcheck and proper paragraphing with absolute distrust.
Anyway, you're naive or purposely trying to lure popular opinion into being open with our finances for you to sweep in, nick it (in clerics name, ofc) and forge the books (like you said you would during DP's theft).
1) Our neighbours might be current allies and friends, but winds of change have upturned that before.
2) One of those neighbours is acutely aware that we can out finance out them in wartime, want to hand them a roadmap out of how much they need to gather to beat us if alliance politics shifts? Pfft, naive.
3) Airstrikes... not just our neighbours who are external threats, numbnuts.
4) Once you're pull off a heist, you ain't getting another chance - you will want to maximize your return. Knowing if we're a big prize or waste of effort is important. DP would been unlikely to put in the months of effort if he'd know he'd only a get a crumpet.
5) Open finances means any to-be thefts knows exactly where the money is; a CP can only nick the treasury, if they know where it is.
MoF is trusted as a safeguard and an authority on financial matters. Hes competent to tell a CP if a proposal can be sustained for it's intended purpose - you, RTK... busy bee, nosy skew... would only need to know for the sake of knowing. If you want that privilege, get elected. No one's going to be silly enough to make you a Minister!
first paragraph is a basic lie. lets see paragraph 1 lol wow are you really that daft. cant you read what i said rarely have this happened.
2. i cried so much i laughed about this one. all our neighbors are befriended with us so what exactly would their sinister plan be.
3. oh my are your really are you really yes they can airstrike us anyone can nobody will work out how big a war a country can wage all you need to do is check our damage over a period . weps is not that expensive. finances is the last reason ppl would wage or not wage a war. population/damage is all a country need to check.
4.like i said mof is as much a risk as cp is. giving him a reason to keep everything in his account is very stupid. point tis we could be making lkots of money now.
5,yes but they could do that for any country there is many smaller countries.
actually this is a financial game most people that play has a financial background therefore saying that only the mof should advise the cp is extremely ill informed and devoid of any reason as with most of your comments and articles.
since you decided to end with an ad hominem attack i will too . Sean your just a fluff head. somewhere you learned to use big words etc but basically there is no substance to anything you say. i didnt say i want to be mof this a newspaper i write articles for it. try and keep 1 + 1 2 please
and might i add appleman runs a ice cream stand so is probably one of the person least educated in the field. yes folks our previous mof of 19 terms runs an ice cream staqnd he is one of those guys you ask for a swirl or soft99. give me a soft99 fella. i surely will do ooh ooh ooh and can i be your cfo. naw dont think so try eIreland i hear they be hiring circus folks and carnies.
not that it matters since its a game but just wanted to show how ridiculous your racist policies are.
An IceCream vendor is the perfect MoF,
Cause schooling you is like giving candy to a baby.
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like giving candy to a baby you couldnt even school my left toe your besides that the one that started this lie. we all know your referring to the people of ireland who you brainwashed with your nonsense.
also iwhy are you dissing appleman . i was serious that he is a ice cream vendor. i implied that he wouldnt get a CFO position with that as his last position you implied even "stupid" people would school me.
You like to talk the talk but can you walk the walk?
Krakken did walk the walk in his short MoF position until he was framed by those who are so desperate to keep secret a secret...
You didn't write this.
You have put together a reasonable argument for your point of view. I disagree with most of it, but I do applaud the effort of something that isn't a complete trolling attack article.
On your point f, I would point out that the times I've seen you in the Dail, you've not brought out reasonable discussions about points of view, you have repeatedly spammed attacks and nonsense into the Dail threads to disrupt the government. That type of thing led to you not being included into the last Dail threads that you were elected to. Then you decided to go off with rogue proposals in what appeared to be a temper tantrum.
If you want reasonable discussions, you have to make a reasonable approach. This is much better than your normal articles.
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The problem is, at this point even when he is sounding rationale, everyone assumes there is malicious intent.
This entire article a reasonable argument.
That is what we said.
So say we all....Battlestar Galactica....the most retarded ending.
Someone was actually payed to think of such a shitty ending....
Agree with you that goverment funds should be transparent and it was a well written article. Problem is you throw out shet all the time and most people will not listen to you because you lost creidability. In fact some will argue with you for the sake of arguing.
perhaps but this was more of a debate thread. as i said like always there is no no real debate. tbh i wanted cob/loumann to debate their viewpoints but like all incompetent cabinets they are not even here to defend their positions.
Credibility has nothing to do with this.
Those who argue with Krakken are those who are desperate to keep the secret about state finances a secret.
Who has credibility here? No one really...
Everyone support those who have personal benefits from them...what ever those benefits are.....
Except Clerics...we support only those we naively belive could bring integrity and transparency back to Ireland...
And how much support we lose coz of that is irrelevant to us coz we don't give a shit to corrupted or idiots...
Well done brother Krakken!
You are indeed make your CLerics brothers proud!
But lets add something to your list of arguments...
A fact that Ireland in case of eventual invasion...do not fight...
Last time brits invaded Ireland we saw CPs like Sweet or Coleman bending over before british invaders and lick their boots with a lot of passion.
Mighty IA..entire IA humiliated itself...went down on their knees before brits.
All of IA except brother Krakken who was THE ONLY ONE within IA who protested against coward politics of irish officials.
And KRakken as the only true irish patriot within IA got kicked out by Coleman, While Conway aka An Sluagh...who openly joined british invasion after he stole 200k from ireland...he got accepted back to IA as "IA asset".
For 6 months Ireland did not win a single battle and when brits took pitty and gave us 4 regions back....our CP Sweet and MoD Seanan...took 3....
And now from the same group of people we hear government money stats must remain a secret cotz of defensive purposes...
Again Krakken...well done!
i do what is good for ireland, and for now we are safe.
nothing more to say.