Government Apathy
Day 535, 11:57
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by Muljo Gobet
Citizens and Congressmen, I have a couple of questions for you. Do you feel like if you get elected to Congress you should put in work to make the eUSA a better place? Do you think being elected means you have several responsibilities you have to perform to do a good job? Or do you think that once you’ve won that shiny Congressional Medal, all the hard work is done?
Did you know that the current Congress could have seriously hurt the country they were elected to serve? Why is it, that every Congress, we take one step forward to improve ourselves, yet we take two steps back?
I’m referring primarily to the MPP with India. You may be asking, “Isn’t India our friend? Why wouldn’t we want to MPP with them? How in the world would that have hurt us?” Here’s how. Currently we have an MPP with Romania and India. Romania and India signed a contract saying Romania is allowed to attack one of their territories to get to an Indo region. Do you know what would happen if one country we have a MPP with, attacks another country we have a MPP with? The attacking counties MPP expires. What this means is, once Romania attacked India we would have lost our MPP with Romania. Now, is losing our MPP with the most powerful Atlantis nation a good idea? That should be an obvious NO!
Did you know this? Mostly likely no. I mean, why would you? But how many of you reading this are Congressman/women who didn’t know this? Unfortunately, the answer is still most likely no. Citizens, do you expect your elected leaders to know the facts before they vote on legislation? I would hope so.
Luckily for us the situation has changed and the chances are very low that anything bad would happen now. I wish this was the only example I had for you. In congress, before you put anything up for a vote you must have at least 5 approvals. This didn’t happen with Maxpaynes50’s donate legislation. He just put it up for a vote. Now I don’t have anything against Max. Sometimes people make mistakes or just don’t know. Max was….taught how to do it properly. Maybe some of us were a bit too harsh but hey, now he knows. Yet, the problem isn’t him. What happens if someone doesn’t have 5 approvals? The congress is supposed to vote it down. Did we do that? Hmm let me check. Nope, it passed. “Dude, you’re making a big deal out of nothing.” Possibly. What happens if that donated money is all the cash we have in the treasury? Then we can’t pay the new citizen fee. Then all our new citizens don’t receive their start up cash, which I think we can all agree is essential in the beginning of the game.
There’s more! How about the MPP with Bosnia and Herzegovina? “Well, what about it?” You may have noticed we’ve been MPPing with a lot of countries lately. This is due to Scrabmans war games with Ireland. We’re MPPing with them so when Ireland attacks us, they can get in the action to earn some exp and gain rank like we‘ve been doing with our RW with Baja. When Scrabman wrote up the contract only countries who agreed to pay would be allowed to be involved. After all, who likes moochers right? Guess which country didn’t pay? You guessed it, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Yet who did we just sign an MPP with? Yeah. We just lost 30 gold (that’s what a MPP’s costs) and then B&H gets to join the very expensive war games on our dime.
Some of us have been doing our job in Congress. Obviously, not enough of us though since all these legislations passed. Attention all Congressmen/women: READ THE FORUMS! To properly do your job you MUST do this.
Yet that isn’t where 100% of the blame lies. I’ve been a Congressman for 3 months now. Want to know how many questions I’ve got for how I was voting and why? ONLY ONCE! And that was when I put up a lulz. How do you expect your Congressman to do a good job when they’re not even accountable? Attention all Citizens: GET INVOLVED! Keep up with what’s going on in the eworld. You should be in the forums too. Hold your leaders accountable. I’m not talking about the President here, trust me, he gets enough flack. I’m talking about the people who hold the most power. Your Congressmen/women. Hold their feet to the fire to make sure we’re doing our job properly.
God Bless eAmerica!
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Just out of curiosity if 95% of active citizens live in Florida and NJ what good is it asking 2 congressmen to do their jobs. I constantly am told that states/regions don't matter (other than for elections) by people in the government and this is another example of why they should matter.
Oh and for the record there are no congressmen on the eUS forums they are senators there.
Heya Senator Muljo!
Well spoken, good sir.
@Dan
I know they're called Senators on the forums, but the game calls the legislature, Congress. So I call them Congressmen. The voting records are published every so often. That way when if you have a question about how someone voted you can PM them no matter what state they live in. Also many of us are friends with at least one Senator. PM and bug that person who you know.
Muljo I realize that and tried to make that distinction on the forums since a couple of noobs who used to work for my company asked me who senators are for which I was told by Harrison Richardson that both noobs and myself are stupid because we don't know who senators are.
Oh and I was also told I was making this up since no one can be that stupid and I am just crusading for the sake of crusading. I decided that I would take my 'crusade' off the forums and leave them for the 'intelligent' people.
Yeah, I saw that thread when you first posted it. I didn't see the Harrison thing and that's extremely unfortunate that happened. It seems like every "experienced" players starts to get high and mighty on himself and treats the younger generation like crap. Hopefully we can all can just brush that stuff off without getting our feathers too ruffled.
Thought of another thing, if you don’t know who to PM, message the official who was elected from your home state in RL. That way everyone will be held accountable, especially the younger Senators who haven’t learned the ropes yet/or are doing it just for the gold.
voted!
So im a noob, big deal, atleast i dont have enough power to effect the rest of eUS as a whole.
bayne420 - you do have more power than most would like to admit. You have a voice and a vote. We have many people here in the eUS that want to suppress the voices and tell you that they know more than you and you should listen to them but ultimately if you follow your own path while picking and choosing what you want to do and not be a sheep you should be fine.
Muljo - there really needs to be an accessible thread where everyone can see who voted how on what issue. Until this exists writing your congressman in my opinion does not have much of an impact. There are certain congressmen who are very accessible and take their job seriously and I commend them but I would really like to see a voting record on every single issue - then we can really hold them accountable.
That is supposed to happy periodically, but the SoH is running late.
I think Senators can call themselves whatever they want. If they want to be called congressman, so be it. But don't force them that way. If Senator is to their liking, fine, you're a Senator. I fail to believe that any coherent American doesn't know what a Senator is.
don;t you mean congressmen can call themselves what they want mr. Richardson??? even you seem to have trouble knowing what to call yourself at this point. If in game a Congressman is a Congressman it only makes sense that that is what they are called.
addendum - if the President decides that he should call himself 'everyone in this country is a dope and I am the bomb' we should all call him that and expect people to know who is being referenced when that is mentioned? It is silly if something has a specific name in game it should be reffered to as such in order to avoid confusion.
Coherent Americans all know what a senator is and coherent eAmericans know what a Congressman is but if they have never before visited or read the forums, for the purpose of this game they have no idea what a 'senator' is. And you calling them stupid for not knowing that is insulting.
pardon the typos 🙂
This issue over such a minor name is frankly concerning. I'm not a Senator, for the record.
If a person knows what a Senator is in real life, they can assert to what they are in eRepublik. "Oh, IRL they work in Congress. I bet they do the same thing here!"
Mr. Richardson - you do realize that they let 12-13 year olds play this game...
I agree that some congressmen/senators do not vote with full knowledge of what they are doing. That being said, I know big chunk of them do look at the forums before a vote.
Please do not put all congressmen/senators in the same boat. I do however agree with your sentiment, Muljo. For the record, I voted against the Donation proposed by maxpayne50 and the MPP with B&H.
I'm glad Max's proposal passed. It shows that not all of congress are sheep. That 5 rule thing is supposed to be a suggestion, not a FUCK YOU YOU DIDN'T GET 5 POSTS FAGGOT thing. You guys are retarded.
Emerick, last I checked, (aka last I was in Congress) (which I believe was more recently than you), the 5 approval rule was a rule of thumb, not a suggestion.
Startying with ProggyPop, and continuing with kyle321n, every Congress member/Senator, who made a proposal in-game without getting the 5 approvals on the forums was chewed up and spit out worse than chewing tobacco.
As per the article, Muljo, I think a big problem in this country, or more likely, in this game, is party line voting. Yes, yes, I'm a USWP member, but the whole 10 months or so that I've been playing this game, I've railed against it.
So in a way, you can say that people do not elect their congress members expecting them to know what they're supposed to do, because a majority of the voters do not know what a congress member's job is.
How can I say this? First look at our population. Next look at the number of members registered on the forums. Then look at how many of those members are actually active (I happen to be inactive on the forums). The majority of our population is made up of 2-clickers. They are not about to hold their congress members accountable. And for once I partially agree with Danylo. So few eAmericans move back to their "home states" to vote so you're basically having the majority of the population hold 2 senators responsible.
I understand your frustration, and much has been tried to remedy this before your article. Nothing sticks, even if it works.
And you might recall Justinious' article a couple months ago about how each month approximately one-third of the congress members are replaced by new congress members. Even though that is less than half, that is still a significant amount of possibilites to screw everything up. The new senators must be berated at the beginning before they start anything stupid, redundant and wasteful of time.
Ian, Congress took my topic, which made five votes a suggestion, and used it to be idiots. I made it to be a guideline, not a rule, and I hate that people use it as a reason to be dicks. If you want to be a dick, be a dick with good reason, not because some one made a sound proposal and didn't get your precious posts as approval.