An opinion on eCanada's state of affairs

Day 1,799, 13:26 Published in Canada China by Crock Crosby

I'm not a very active article writer. It's been over 100 days since my last one. If you were to look through my papers archives u would see I only post articles about things I think are of great importantance.

That being said I'm writing today to sway may PP's opinion in favour of putting me, Crock Crosby, on the congressional ballot.

The CPF has flourished in recent months. We have grown a large pool of active players, who are very talented. Auk Rest, CPF's current PP, has asked potential candidates to post articles to help him decide who will represent the CPF in congress for November.

I've been playing eRep for over three years. In that time ecanada has never been in the position we face today.

We are not a member of any alliance that is capable of defending us and our interests.

We are either largely occupied, or under direct threat of invasion at all times. It can be argued that Canada always being under attack is an advantage because of the opportunity for players to gain "TP" gold.

I don't see it that way.

With us not controlling all our regions our weapon and food production is pitiful. It's like we are trying to fight with one hand tied behind our backs. Low food production is a huge detriment to our younger players who are not able to fight as much and there fore not able to grow into strong soldiers as fast as they could be.

With the rifts growing in CTRL, now is the time to reach out to our oldest and greatest friend, eUSA. We never have, and never will have the strength to Stand against European powers unless we have a MPP and close relations with eUSA. This issue alone is the number one priority the government should be working on.

The other issue of great importance at this time is the burden of high tax's consumers and companies alike are having to deal with every day. The 20% VAT is weakening our great nation from the inside out. It's forced players to shop in foreign markets and also black markets(direct player to player deals, never posted on any market). With Players not purchasing on the ecandain market, tax revenues are slowing declining. This is affecting our ability to keep our full compliment of MPPs we have become used to over the years. We currently have 16 MPPs and it's likely that we will be signing fewer in the next month. four months ago we averaged 23 MPPs at all times.

The final thing I will talk about is our Military Unit funding. The past congress's and MU leaders have been working toward MU's being self sufficient for a long time now. The pace of this plan has been to slow in my opinion. When the current invasion is over, all MU funding should be used to make all MU's self sufficient. Mo more tax dollars should be spent on purchasing weapons or raw materials. If a MU is unable or unwilling to convert to self supply their funding should be cut.

For a nation our size we currently have too many MU's receiving funding.
The top four MU's could quickly become self sufficient with government funding. Four MU's is enough of a choice for players to find a unit that fits their needs. Do we really need fund these smaller political and personal units that are started to boost certain players egos? To many government funded units dilutes the effectiveness of funding, and that hurts our war machine as a result.


This is my personal stance on the issues of the time.

You may agree, u may not.
Either way VOTE CPF on the 25th!