The Needs of the Many Prevail Over the Needs of the Few! Really?
Zoli
First I wanted to title this article "5000 reason why Americans should not like Scrabman" but I will not provide 5000 reason, I will only provide one 5000 GOLD reason. I know that many of you will start screaming that this is PEACE propaganda, but please read the entire article before you make judgmental calls.
As you all know, although there was no official information from the President, the USA is involved in a major conflict – US troops are fighting to free some Greek and Israeli region held by Turkey. The operations started a couple of days ago, and up to now 4 regions: Macedonia, Crete, Attica and Jerusalem have been liberated. Currently battles rage in Peloponnesus and Central Greece.
I will not question the why of this military operation. You are helping an ally. I just question the amount of money that is involved in this operation.
The current administration has planned to spend up to 5000 GOLD in order to liberate Central Greece for Turkey. The main goal is not the freedom of this region but the weakening of PEACE. This way PEACE would lose a high iron region.
You can track down the path of the money by checking out the donations list of the Congressional Budgeting Office . From the beginning of the operations up to 6639 GOLD have been transferred to different branches of the army. From there one you can track the money to its destination. Free weapons and GOLD for wellness packs have been given to some members of the army.
I believe that Scrabman could have used this money more wisely; he could have served the people that have elected him. I will present some uses for this 5000 GOLD.
1. The USA has 51 regions but only 2 (Florida and New Jersey) have a Q5 hospital. There are 4 regions with no hospital and 18 regions with only Q1 hospital. With 5000 GOLD he could have bought 16 Q5 hospitals or 22 Q4 hospitals covering all regions which had a Q1 or did not even have a hospital. Should I tell you the benefits of these hospitals? People would have gained up to 4-5 more fights a day than they currently get. That would have lead to more XP gained by those people, and a faster increase in rank. Right now in Turkey Field Marshals get the money for wellness packs. They do not advance in rank, so that is a waste money. With the money given to 4 Field Marshall (4*80 GOLD) a region would get a Q5 hospital and those people would gain experience and increase in rank.
2. Lower income taxes – Right now the inhabitants of the USA pay one of the highest taxes in eRepublik. The combined tax burden (Income tax + VAT) is 21% in the USA, 15% in Romania, 20% in the UK, 12% in Spain, 6% in Indonesia and 15% in Hungary. In the last 3 days the American population paid 40.000 USD (around 790 GOLD) in taxes, mainly income tax. That money could be used in a better way. Lower income taxes would boost the purchasing power of the population, which will consume more and thus lead to an increase of the economy. People would buy more weapons, better quality food, gift, houses. Company owners would start new businesses in order to satisfy this greater demand or could upgrade the quality of their companies.
I always believed that the needs of the many prevail over the need of the few . It seems that now only a limited number of Americans benefit from the work of everybody. It seems to me that all Americans are equal, but some are more equal than others .
It is not my job to judge Scrabman. He was one of the best presidents the USA had, but right now it seems to me that he is ignoring the “little people”, he ignores those who accepted higher taxes just to help America. From this action only a limited number of Americans will benefit, and all the rest will pay the bill for those who will reap the fruits of the spent money. And lets not forget that many freelancers, not American citizens, are part of the army and receive funding to have fun, while the American taxpayers stay at home in a region with only a Q1 hospital and write letters to there congressman to lobby for a better hospital or lower taxes.
I belive it is time to write again to your congressman and pressure him for lower taxes and better hospitals and healthcare. It seems the Governement has money, so it should spend in a way that would benefit all Americans.
[Update: Somebody has stolen 600 GOLD from one of the army orgs. Way to go! Article here
[Update 2: Do you remember that you have impeached a president for using less than 500 GOLD on the army. Uncle Sam - ***If you Would Hang Me...*** Read it for the LULZ!
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Comments
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16 Q5 hospitals... Damn...
Wonder why he didn't use it?
PEACE propaganda!
The USA wants to free all opressed nations (Greece, Israel, South Africa, India), they do not need q5 hospitals!
Note: Serbia, Germany, and many others in the past, do not qualify as opressed, since the presidents friends are doing the opressing.
voted.
scrabman = bush
voted 🙂
Voted by hungarians 🙂
LOL.
Zoli,clawy and Quicksilver 😒ince you care so much about the oppresed why don't you :
1)Liberate Ukraine and all the baltic countries
2)Slovakia
3)Israel and Greece
4)Give Russia back it's regions
Americans ..that should give you hint 😉
Central Greece is a high IRON region .That means that the hungarians
cannot afford to lose it from their influence .
Remember the TO attempt from Spain ?
You remember why ? It was the only high IRON region outside of Peace .
If they lose this region there will be 2 regions outside their influnce .So ..if you do not want Peace to control all the iron high regions :
FIGHT RED here:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/battles/show/6733" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/battles/show[..]6733
Fight for independence of your resources against PEACE.
Selling the cheapest Q2 food in the eWorld!
@GoBucks - So One Eye is running the CBO (but please correct me if I am wrong; btw Joe Schmo I hope your final exams went OK)
I doubt that all congress members knew about this operation. We should ask Harlot if he has informed them all.
Regarding taxes the Congress sets those taxes, but I do not believe that this operation did not have an aproval from President Scrabman.
In the light of these events maybe the Congress should rethink the level of these taxes.
@vladb - I've told you I do not question the reasons of this operation but the money spent on it.
Damn! I though Uncle Fail blowing 400 Gold on his buddies tanking in one of the WSR battles was a big abuse of public funds, but that's small change compared to Scrabman's generous spending when it comes to the "elite" units!
The eAmerican military is like a medieval feudal lord's army - the few chosen knights receive all the funding, and rest are treated like a peasant levy equipped with pitchforks, if at all 🙂
Zoli: teljes logikus, jól tagolt, értelmes cikk, feltárja az ok-okozati összefüggéseket, számadatokkal alátámasztva.
De!
Az amerikai nép a kis agyával nem fogja ezt megérteni. Túl hosszú is a cikk, harmadánál már azt sem tudják, eddig mit olvastak, ráadásul a Gonosz oldal írta.
Again and again Peace trolling 🙂
Americans : Your government has caught Peace sleeping and engaged in other actions and Europe and has decided that it would be a good time to invest in creating a breach in the world's Peace domination of IRON resources .
It's quite simple :the ones that have the iron have the cheapest weapons 🙂
Now ..hungarians are pissed of because they were caught on the wrong foot by this manouver .
Imagine if all the HIGH IRON regions where in their hand ,what do you think it will happen ? Do you think Hungary will give you iron if you ask them kindly ?
Should I remember that 5 days ago Peace threatened to attack the US on the 15 th of June ?
Your government did a wise move :invested gold in securing that the E-U.S. will have access to HIGH IRON region .And trust me ..it is worth more then 5000 gold .
The fact that this article is full of Peace trolling should tell you that if this operation succeds it is a big blow to Peace .
When did E-mericans had the chance of so high profile PEace memebers trolling in the media .
IT really hurts for them 🙂
lol, Zoli frustration is coming from everywhere...
you can read it once at 3 words..
Zoli take care of your business,
BRAVO USA, the onlu unselfish country in erepublik, who managed to keep its ally close and support 100% the weak!
zoli tata, ce-a zis matzaa catre arici?
Good job USA 🙂
So funny to see, while it is even stated in the article, everybody complains about PEACE propaganda and not thinking about the 5k gold spent on a very generous, but utterly expensive war, which indeed shows no obvious positive outcome.
sebahmah: by weak you mean eRomania? 😉
Scrabs really delusional if he thinks this is going to hurt PEACE at all. If PEACE was smart they would have Portugal and Italy attack Spain now as Scrabman is bogging down the U.S. funds in Turkey.
Romanians and Hungarians arguing over an American military intervention in Turkish occupied Greece.
Erep can be so funny at times.
I wonder how much did Peace spent in the last 5 days ?
Zoli ..can you do the maths for us please ? 😃
Zoli
you failed to realise that money have no importance ... it's a GAME and "money" should only be spent so that they express the will of a country , ideas and beliefs..
Well, at least it was honest gold, not cloned by Indonesia or Italy 🙂
AlxxRo so here is the tipical atlantis man.
Just spend that money, its only a game. We make (cheat, fake, clone, use alchemy) moar!
Mistwalker just around 5k people disapeared in the USA last weeks. 🙂
@ vladb, you Romanians should really be ashamed of discussing the topic of iron. You had 3 high-iron regions but you just had to have that 4th one for yourself, and that brought you empire to ruin. So you're completely unqualified to talk about sharing resources with your allies!
an answer to this cra... article
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-needs-of-hungary-and-peace-prevail--829654/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-[..]/1/20
"The eAmerican military is like a medieval feudal lord's army - the few chosen knights receive all the funding, and rest are treated like a peasant levy equipped with pitchforks, if at all 🙂"
Nonsense. Every soldier deployed was armed. The Marines with the highest strength and rank get the wellness packs because they do about three times the damage of a mid-level soldier like myself, damage we need to counter the impact of Hungarian tanks.
BTW, where is Hungary's anti-imperialist rhetoric when it fights against the liberation of Greek regions? I saw you on the battlefield last night, Grak. Where's your high-minded ideology now? Oh, that's right. It was all a bunch of BS designed to sew dissent in the US media, just like this article.
why you didn't helped Germany as Germany needed your help instead of this collpasing thing ?! Anyways I will fight for Turkey to hell with Greece
Since when do you care about internal US infrastructure? You sound like you're running for the US Congress.
TÃ : do you have no shame ?
It seems that you do not .
You think that if you start acuusing the others of cheating and stating that in thousands of comments somebody is going to believe you ?
People remember what happened ,they do not forget so soon.
@ sebahmah, I really expected a more meaningful answer from you than just some flattery for the eAmericans to goad them into fighting PEACE which you Romanians hate so much.
@dethanos trade - I did not say that deployed troops did not receive funding. I just questioned that all those at home are paying high taxes while only a few reap the fruits
And next time please sign yourself.
@PigInZen - you can never know what the future holds for us
Ohohoho vladb
If you could feel what you just said.
Zoli, with the same unscrupulous behaviour as always.
@ Korin: As I've posted over the Turkish media today once Central Greece is involved this is no more a fight for freedom - this is an American attempt to acquire control over a high-iron region through a PTO of our ally Turkey and consequently PTO of supposedly allied Greece. So I fought and will continue to fight for keeping Central Greece under PEACE control.
I will not go into an argument about the most efficient way to fight a war, but tanking is definitely not it, so the fact that all soldiers deployed were armed is no excuse - the common eUSA citizen was never offered a piece of the action.
Please all, have pity on poor Zoli... he's torn between allegiances between his mother and father.
Bastion this really weak. Didn't you find a better arguement?
Grakulan: are you an eUSA citizen to know how much action is offered or lacked to them? 🙂
I believe any citizen in eRep has part of just enough action by simply enroling in the army and being active in the press. Also, any citizen has all the means to get involved if his/her time permits.
@ ronina: I see mostly special eUSA forces fighting in Turkey, and please don't tell me none of the other eAmerican armed forces would have liked to rank. Considering 10 guns and 2 tickets cost less than 2.5 gold simple calculations show that for 5000 gold MORE THAN 2000 eAMERICANS COULD HAVE FOUGHT AND RANKED, not just the government's pet units and the politician's buddies!
Grakulan : Are NicoSiannipar ,Euphonix ,Zoli ,all the members of HUN Elite "politician's buddies" ?
It makes sense to move people that give you most damage with x amount of gold .
Why would you pay 200 gold for 10000 damage when you can get 20000 ?
I think you already tricked the USA population once down this path once in the past and they impeached their president. You seem to be trying to do this again, just that with less success. I hope you burn for this btw 🙂
Without discussing the differences in circumstances now this is in fact a justified action by the moral standards upon which the modern USA citizen plays the game.
Excuse me now while I move to the sidelines and laugh at your pathetic attempt to mislead by using obscure details of costs and who benefits from them. I didn't see the Indonesian citizens fighting in France or Italy these past few weeks and they melted a few thousand golds there too just with 5-6 tanks. Try looking in your own backyard before commenting on others 😃
But come to think of it ... the Indonesians mostly use clones who are known for their great endurance of unfair conditions and state enforced communism , elitism and so on. In fact the only PEACE clones that ever talk are those who they move in the USA and other english speaking countries to sow dissent and propaganda as well as those who they use for TO's 😉
I think you're probably already pissing in your pants knowing that the USA is at last blooming under a united nation and starting to throw hits against PEACE that they can feel and at the same time still manage to do the right thing.
Tell us how unjust the ocupation of Turkey is please 🙂
Zoli, it will be hard to get the moral high ground in this very conflict.😛 You are fighting for the oppressors in Greece right now.
I think the only thing that the USA leadership can be blamed for is that the war games seem to have been put on halt for the time of the Greek campaign taking away the opportunity from the population to fight. I hope we'll have a battle today finally.🙂
Of course they might have been able to spend the money more efficiently but it's their money and they are spending it on a good cause.
A more intelligent assesment would tell that they have not started war-games because of the PEACE threatening to atack the USA, it would be a mistake to waste damage on something like this, damage that could go in the deffense of the US or other MPP protected nations.
So PEACE is also to blame for the war-games absence 🙂
Mistwalker, an even more intelligent assessment would tell that the PEACE threat was not real or at least misleading. The date of the promised attack tells that it was/is a PTO threat not a military one.
vladb
do you remeber, when eRo army was near Karnataka, what orders did you received from the eRo high command?
"fight at 10 a clock "(it is 00:00 erep time in Romania)
even the MoD hanSolo admit it personally in front of 80 persons in rizon...#eRo, he gave this order
yes the whole eRO army used a bug,
and you preach about who is cheating? 🙂
A reminder :
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-hungary-wondering-about-the-fate-of-the-usa-826852/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-hun[..]1/20
It seems that hungarians really "care " about the US a lot 🙂
The 5000 eUSA citizens are not missing!!! They are liberating Greece from the evil Turkish empire!!! 😃
We will outnumber you next month if you continue this kind of money handling. Well done. Just do it. 🙂
vladb, you and your friends have great experience falsify history, haven't you? 😁)
Your lies are like Hitler would say, that americans have killed the jews in the II world war...
Everybody can check the logs: Romania invaded Hungary, Ukraine and Russia. Hungary helped to reconquer the territories, setting the areas free. Watch the logs, or ask the Russian or Ukrainian president.
Hahahahahahaha. You fail Zoli.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-needs-of-hungary-and-peace-prevail--829654/1/all" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-[..]1/all
@nagyzee
all Greeks and Israelites fought against eHungary in eRomania,
when eHungary has only 2 regions
when eHungary eliberated Ukraina, eGreeks and eIsraelites fought against,
so pls...