Belgium’s Weekly Waffles: 8/20/11
Day 1,369, 09:20
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by Monsieur Guillontine
I present to you this week’s waffles:
Res Belgica Resurrected Presidential Announcements for September 2011
Res Belgica Resurrected
After the past elections for party president, the Bros B4 Hos party finally changed its leadership from shadowukcs to Xgentis Lempereur. Immediately after the new party president was given control, Xgentis Lempereur brought back to life Res Belgica, a party in Belgium that had existed in February 2010, but was transformed into Bros B4 Hos from June to August. Once Res Belgica was up and running again, Xgentis Lempereur published an article announcing Res Belgica’s return, and that they are the defenders of democracy. And with that, the veteran party is back in Belgium, ready for the upcoming Congress elections!
Presidential Announcements for September 2011
Presidential elections are coming up soon, and two candidates have arisen. From the AllTOgethers, Jofroi is running, with his main point being the idea of a merge between Belgium and the Netherlands. On the other hand, representing the Belgian Communist Party, is Monsieur Guillontine, who is completely against such a plan to create a union between two nations. Jofroi is strongly in favor of a merge, as he sees that there will be a large amount of economic benefits. In addition to that, the military would be much stronger. However, Monsieur Guillontine argues that currently, the game mechanics cannot sustain a merge due to the fact that even if the Netherlands is wiped off the map, elections will still be held, therefore the union will technically have 2 Country Presidents, which will cause dire issues. Not only that, but many are against a merge as of now, and what will happen is that Belgium as well as the Netherlands will lose many active, experienced players. Now that resistance wars are even easier to start than before, it will not be difficult for nationalistic Dutch people to reclaim their old territories. As you can see, the idea of a merge is quite controversial, causing Belgian citizens to have to make an effort to contemplate on what they would prefer: a strong, independent nation, or a challenging merge.
I hope you enjoyed this week’s Saturday morning waffles. Go ahead and discuss or debate with each other, or even insult each other right below. Remember to check next week for some more hot crispy Belgian waffles!
Yours Truly,
Monsieur Guillontine
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Hahaha, a very neutral article 😛
You told a lot more about NOT merging and why you should be against, then you told us about the positive sides of merging.
-Criticaly
President of Belgium
But as always, a good article 😉
vote for waffles.
Hell sub for waffles.
voted
Questions : what about the BTA ?
What about the army ?
What about our treasury : you will make which system? a common account?
What about the CM medals of congress ?
Thanks for you answer. If you are not able to give for the BAF, you will not be able to give to the BTA.
mmmmm potato... voted
Elynea, I will post my manifesto after Congress elections. I hope you will understand everything better by then. But to answer your questions...
If I am CP, I really want to start a commune system for BTA. The treasury also needs to be less restricted, especially for purposes like helping the army.
It's important before elections, because several members of BTA will go in BAF. For the medal CM : our best value in ebelgium was that. Solidarity to make a good economy, it started with that.
I'm frank. I'm not for a merge indeed, but you must be frank for citizens too.
What would you do for new players : you know it's my principal purpose on the game. Not debates how to have profit for the country very fast, BUT HAVE A NICE ECONOMY TO HELP NEW PLAYERS.
I make a pool in this moment in the party to say for which person the BFB will support for elections, but i keep my position : Freedom for votes.
I received some mails (no need to say names) to say, you have a power of decision, because you are friend with new comers. NO !
I will not push a person to vote for a candidate. They will vote with their liberty. They will read your program and the program of jofroi and they will vote with their heart.
Good luck
"the game mechanics cannot sustain a merge"
Not even a partial merge? Region renting happens, why exclude it?
"The treasury also needs to be less restricted"
I can only read this as deficit spending. Why spend gold, on what? I strongly disagree with the downhill financial slope proposed here.
Ward, he means an overall merge, nothing above suggests of a rent of a neighbours region and at the moment the government is spending way too much money and its better to save it or they'll be nothing left.
"at the moment the government is spending way too much money and its better to save it or they'll be nothing left. "
I can't understand a thing from this. At this moment the governemt does not spend any gold and has a 12000 BEF monthly excedent. Of course now we painfully accumulate it (BEF reserves are above 120000 and gold at 1885), but Monsieur proposes that "the treasury needs to be less restricted", meaning to spend it. What the heck does an English native speaker mean with "they'll be nothing left"? I can only interpret it as "If we elect Monsieur Guillontine, there will be nothing left of the Belgian Treasury".
"he means an overall merge, nothing above suggests of a rent of a neighbours region"
- I suggested it, i asked a question. What about region renting as a partial merger?
Did the Communist Party's totalitarian stance change to libertarian? Also, did it change its name or is it only temporary?