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My friends,

It has come to my attention that many Congressional candidates have been adopting plans to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure after the war. I have read many proposals about this in the media and spoken with some of you about my plans while hearing yours. I would like to give you an overview of my policy and highlight why they are superior to many you will read about in the coming days.

First, as a point of clarification, this is dependent on the present war ending and recovering our occupied states. Some specifics of this plan also rely on Canada regaining sovereignty over their provinces, leaving no Hungarian or Iranian presence in North America, and Colombia returning territory to Mexico.

The future of our nation’s infrastructure needs to depend on several considerations outlined herein:

International Borders
-Foreign Relations
-Military Threat
Economic Factors
-Resource Availability
-Economic Output
Population Factors

International Borders

To start, I have drawn up two maps of our country. These show the states bordering foreign nations. For larger versions of these images, please click on them.





To determine which international borders demand the greatest attention, I propose considering the state of the relations we share with our neighboring nations and the military threat each poses. Canada shares a border with many of our states, but the states sharing a border with Canada and no other country will be low defensive priorities because of our cordiality with Canada. It is cheaper to make friends than defensive systems.

When considering nations not our friends, we must look at their military strength. Mexico, as evidenced by the recent Colombian invasion of the United States allowed to pass through their lands, is currently not our friend. However, this does not automatically mean the deployment of defenses in all border states is called for. As a stronger military power, the United States can fend off a Mexican invasion without sinking its treasury on fixed guns all over the desert.

Other factors on the international scale need to be considered by September-October’s leadership. This includes eIndonesia, which invaded through the Japanese border with Hawai’i, and land-swapping maneuvers by the enemy such as those that brought Hungary and Iran to our continent.

Economic Factors

To build a strong and independent domestic economy, America needs to secure its resource regions. Other economic incentives may be needed to encourage development of these, but serious development certainly will not start if those regions are under threat of occupation.

Resource availability can help determine defensive positions, but it can not be the sole factor. One candidate from the USWP favored placing as many as ten Q5 hospitals nationwide and focusing them only on resource-producing regions. I would not endorse spending money defending a region unlikely to be conquered just because it has high grain reserves. South Dakota is a high grain region but, after the liberation, it will not border any foreign powers and the nearest foreign power is a friendly one. An incursion into the United States with the intent of capturing Pierre could be stopped sooner than the border regions of South Dakota.

Our medium iron regions (Arizona, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Nevada) lie on or near borders with PEACE-aligned nations, and this may play a role in determining where we construct new hospitals and defensive systems.

The locations of our construction and manufacturing companies matter too. Just as we do not want to lose our raw material base, we do not want to lose our manufacturing sector, which feeds and arms our country.

Population Factors

Although this is a hard factor to consider, we must acknowledge that not every new citizen will be born in a Q5 hospital region. Some regions, such as California, produce more new citizens than others. Educating new citizen about the virtues of Q5 hospitals, leaving ‘trap’ companies, and following DoD orders should still be essential, but a proportion of newbie population movement can be mitigated by our infrastructure strategy.

So what states will get hospitals?

This is a question I do not want to answer yet because there are still too many unknowns. If the entirety of the United States is not united following this war, we will have to adapt. My proposed layout for the country that approves three new Q5 hospitals will be different than the one that approves six. I do not want to see the proliferation of Q5 hospitals and defense systems get too great, as each one has diminishing returns.

What the voters need to know is that von Phalz is a man ready to get America’s infrastructure together. When I put infrastructure plans in my platform, I am not dismissively saying that I have given it “some thought.” I have put a great deal of careful consideration into this.

If elected to Congress, I will still be willing to hear other proposals and work with my fellow congressmen from AAP and other parties to rebuild America. The level of consideration I have given this issue does not mean I will try to dominate all congressional discussion, but I will bring insight that America cannot afford to miss. This is why, for the best interests of our country and its hospitals, you should elect me, Rheinlander von Phalz.









Rheinlander von Phalz
Candidate for the United States Congress
Arizona – America’s Advancement Party