Pfeiffer 4 President? I Like Ike!

Day 3,727, 14:20 • Published in USA USA • by jadiv

On June 5, 1944, in his last act before retiring for the day, General Eisenhower wrote his resignation letter. History has shown his months of planning and preparations were largely successful even if his dating on his resignation letter was off a little, historians have always considered that he probably had a lot on his mind that evening. Fortunately the resignation wasn't needed.

You know Dwight Eisenhower. If you live in the USA there is probably a statue in your town to him - or in major cities in UK or in France even in some places in Germany. He probably was the last president respected by almost all Americans regardless of political view. He was a simple, honorable man.

While RL historical things do not always translate to our little game here, honor should. One's character should make a difference. Ike was ready to do the honorable thing had D-Day failed.

The same honor cannot be attributed to our ePresident Pfeiffer. He has led us into an utter failure in Thailand against Croatia that now threatens our own shores and what does he do, runs for reelection after what was promised as his swan song term. Pfeiffer, you simply have no honor!

Then again he and the group he pictures himself at the head of, the one that has 'led the eNation' all these years, has done this type of thing before. And what did the 'honorable' Pfeiffer do after leading the nation to military ruin in the past?

Look at his profile! Yes he ran away from the mess he created getting eUSA wiped, for the lulz of it, and camped out in UK as a Brit until others undertook the heavy lift of freeing eUSA.

Let's review the facts before the decision to invade. For as far back as you want to look eCroatia has doubled, or even more than doubled, eUSA damage output. eUSA MPPs have shrunk over the months/years and many of them are smaller eNations. It is simply beyond me how anyone would have thought any other outcome was going to occur.

Now that the conflict threatens our core regions and our core strength, our economic output, a few of our allies have stirred. I am not going to say 'where were they yesterday' as many supported us via MPP access to the fight, but the airstrikes they now propose might have been better coordinated yesterday. As should have been the RW in the other Croatia colony in Thailand, which seemed to only have been organized after it was obvious that our AS was destined to fail.

eCroatia is formerly a close friend. The relationship has cooled to a neutrality over the years but we still have many contacts between eCroatians and eAmericans both in game and in the nationalities of the actual players. This too might have been considered more closely.

There is enough blame to go around but where is the honor? Who pushed the button? Who made the decision?

Now it is excuse time.

First, Romper came out of the woodwork, we didn't count on that.

Although the particular fighter, Romper, might have been unexpected, we damn well know that eCroatia has a history of big hitters. Many players (or perhaps just their accounts) remain in the background for years to reemerge. We know this but the fact is that the damage numbers for eCroatia are known. With our without Romper we would have been outgunned.

Second excuse, people were dying of boredom. Something was needed for the lulz! No more training wars!

It has long been said "War is 99% boredom and 1% sheer terror". The game mechanics are to some extent supportive of this. The big anniversary event (the 1% event) sucked food and weapon supplies out of the game and drove prices up. Slowly the market has been refilling with supplies and prices have started to drop. The average wage earner might now be able to support their daily fights with their wages. Units might be supplied at a reasonable cost, or at least that is the direction we have been going. A period of TW was restoring our material ability to wage war, if and when it would come.

I also remind you of Pfeiffer and his associate's recent tax grab, a tripling of the work tax, later at least reduced to a mere doubling! The justification given - to increase the deterrent value of our financial reserve.

Now putting aside the point that at the original tax rate we were continuing to slowly add to the reserve (well minus a few minor misadventures, and simple fall thru losses) we now have a higher rate (2x the former work tax) to build up our reserve 'for deterrence', a basic defensive function. Instead we used this new funding stream in this offensive adventure "for the lulz"!

This is the problem with setting targets for the reserve after which an original fairer rate might resume; government can always find something else to spend the funds on. The new target (although never publically announced) can never be met! Or at least government can control if it is met by diverting funds to other (mis)uses so that the reserve is never met.

It's the old promise "I don't want to raise your taxes, and will return them to reasonable rates once x is achieved only to find that x is never achieved by the hand of the same ones that made the promise! Are we to expect renewed calls now to increase taxes?

Then again hasn't Pfeiffer repeatedly stated that taxation of the small folks in eUSA is the only use for them, referring to those who choice to play the economic or military side of the game, or to 2-click, rather than be in the food fight which is eUS politics.

Pfeiffer regularly uses the picture of a president as his avatar:

Time to live up to the legacy of another:

I like Ike. Surely we have someone more honorable than Pfeiffer to serve as our next ePresident.