War Profiteers Hamstring American War Effort
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by Eugene Harlot
Having smashed the French coastal defenses and secured a beachhead at Poitou-Charentes, American soldiers are bogged down in the rolling pastures of Limousin. ATLANTIS allies have captured five regions of France, but the logistics and costs of are slowing what was a rapid charge across enemy territory.
Of greatest concern to the Leathernecks, Devil Dogs, Grunts, Squids and Flyboys, is that needed weapons of war, gifts for healing and tickets of transport to the battlefield are skyrocketing in price. War profiteers have raised the price of a Q1 moving ticket from 8 USD to over 20USD in one day. Weapons were in short supply but what is available on the market are at prices intended to make record profits rather than patriotically support our national war effort.
All of this at a time in which huge numbers of citizens are using hospitals to boost wellness and thereby giving unprecedented productivity to employers.
The soldiers of the eUSA are fighting tooth and nail on the walls of Limoges against a desperate enemy. Each doing beyond his duty, reaching into his own savings to fight on and when he does, the War Profiteers are laughing all the way to the bank.
I hope that when this war concludes that US Military leadership and Government will look into which businesses supported us in our hour of need, which commanders and soldiers were gouged in their time of valor and who reaped profits while our heroes fought in the mud and blood of Limousin.
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Maybe the Army should consider loading up on Gifts and Cash during Peace time so those supplies can be passed out in war time.
Don't blame war profiteers, blame poor planning by the Brass.
String up the Quartermaster on charges..
They're both to blame
Agree, both are to blame
its supply and demand. why wouldnt prices go up? you dont have to buy these items. blame each other for being willing to pay these higher prices. if there are still people willing to buy at these prices, then they arent too high, and businesses would be stupid for not charging a higher price. higher prices makes it so that what is there can be spread to more people. better many with a few than few with many items. FMI: read about capitalism.
Exactly Jason... This is why the Army should be loading up in peacetime when prices are cheap. Because when its wartime, demand exceeds supply and prices rise. Whereas in peace time supply exceeds demand and prices are cheap. Thus the Quartermaster should have stocked up on Gifts when they were going for pennies on the dollar.
Agreed...Too many people to point fingers at, lets just push through this and fix the broken crap when we're done!!
jason, we all understand supply and demand. its just when the US needs weapons to fight, its bad that prices jump 4X what they us to be. We are willing to pay more but we can afford that increase. We need to win the war.
The eUSA government should have a STOCKPILE of gifts and Weapons for its troops... This is ridiculous that they have nothing to assist their military with... And those that gain are the companies...
For those who wanted war, Here is the price!!!!
Low wellness and high prices!
buy weapons abroad where they are cheaper.
Stockpiling and government contracts with weapons, ticket and gift companies would help in the future.
As any history will show, no matter how well prepared you think you are for a war (no matter how much food, gas, iron, horses, condoms and hershey bars you have set aside) youo will always need MORE. Its been true for every nation since Sparta and Athens mixed it up and it is true here. Prepare all you want, you will need MORE! In the real world, nations declare price freezes during major wars to stop war profiteering. Ask your dad about the price of rubber, gas, or butter in 1942. War profiteering is illegal in the real world, as is disaster profiteering (tell that to the guys selling oil and gas for $50 per gallon in New Orleans a few years ago). Soldier or Victim, Attacker or Defender, you deserve better than to be gouged by your fellow countrymen while fighting for your country. Let the government declare a ceiling for prices at the start of a war that is fair to all and then lift the declaration at war's end. If you yourself want to pay insane prices, go right ahead. By the way, how many of you plan to pay those prices and actively participate? Just wondering.
People who are suggesting the Army would stockpile during PEACE you are idiots and I will prove it to you.
Lets take a look at the big picture.
The Army has about 426 Soldiers, including Officers. Everyday about 10 gifts need to be sent to them. So 426 multiplied by 10. That comes out to 4260 Gifts PER day for the entire Army. Then about lets say 6 weapons per Soldier which is just a good average, so 6 times 426 comes out to 2556 Weapons PER day.
We will leave Moving Tickets out as Weapons and Gifts alone will prove my point. Add 2556 and 4260 together and you get 6816 PER day. So for a good stockpile about 14 days of supplies that would total to 95,424 Weapons and Gifts.
NOW here is where I completely prove your idiots and didn't think about why this wouldn't work. With the limited Inventory at 10 Items we would need 9,542.4 accounts.
THEN with each Org costing 5gold the Government would have to shed 47,712 Gold which I don't think we even have.
THEN couple this with the fact that that those figures was based SOLELY off the Army and not the ENTIRE Armed Forces and the Army is constantly growing.
The cost of such a stockpile is enormous and I doubt we could come up with 9,542.4 account names and keep track of what is in what.
"Maybe the Army should consider loading up on Gifts and Cash during Peace time so those supplies can be passed out in war time.
Don't blame war profiteers, blame poor planning by the Brass.
String up the Quartermaster on charges.."
Well, we did send 45 Q4 weapons to 10 tanks before the war and before inventories were limited. Does that count 😑?
Well said Armandez. If the army stockpiled during peace, prices would go up as well.
Thanks Tyrsis. As a part of the Army Brass, im a Major for 3rd Division, I WILL NOT accept any blame on the Army's part for a lack of supplies when supplies have been and are being handed out but it can't be like handing out Candy. It was expensive before. Now it's outrageously high and to blame the Army for poor planning AND to accuse it of not taking a step to prevent problems is wrong especially when that solution is impossible. I doubt all of the countries put togther could buy enough Orgs to create a stockpile for the Army!
Seems to me that the people who have no intention of doing any of the fighting, paying any of the costs, or volunteering to assume any responsibility are the always the first to accuse those who do accept that responsibility for any problems that arise. I am just wondering how many who are (amazingly) FOR war-profiteering are actually the ones DOING the war-profiteering.
In beta, Alby's comments would have been accurate, with limited inventory, he is incorrect.
I would say that his comments actually encourage government to funded companies to simply produce supplies such as gifts and weapons and to not sell them unless we are at conflict. From what I understand about Alby's past comments, I do not think he would be for government funded companies.
@Vladislaus Dragula
so youre saying that businesses should operate at a loss and independent of market fluctuations so that the government saves money? honestly, people should start opening up gift and weapon companies to make some money during these high demand times. if they can maintain some liquidity for the dry times, theyll be fat during rawr.
I am not saying nor did I even hint, that any business should operate at a loss. Clearly they were operating at a profit BEFORE jacking the prices up to gouge the people who are doing the fighting, their own government, and the rest of the people who aren't even going to war. I stated that the government should set a "Fair" price which may or may not include a hike. Or do you think it is fair for business owners to grow rich off the sacrifice of soldiers and the helplessness of workers?
Actually if you researched a bit more, you'd know that gifts are only high, because diamond companies raised their prices a few days ago.
LIES AIDEN!!!1 we all know that businesses are just greedy, kick puppies and eat babies. this phoney capitalism stuff doesnt work in real life, and certainly not in a much simpler simulation! for those of you who are ignorant or dont know history, let me help you out. when government decides the price of a product instead of the market, there are shortages. just ask jimmy carter.. well.. dont ask him, but do ask people that had to wait in line for hours for gas in the 70's... if there was any at all. there shouldnt be any need for gifts at all. if people werent stupid, you could fight everyday and end the day with 100 wellness.. by going to the hospital.. and (gasp!) not fighting again!
man, do i hate communists...