MCKitkat for CP - Addressing my opponent's 'plans'
MCKitkat
Greetings Belgium,
I’m once again seeing the need to address the ludicrous accusations and “plans” of my opponent. You may have noticed that I am literally the only candidate addressing my opponent’s platform as well as presenting detailed figures for my plans.
You may also have noticed the boisterous claims of increased activity from the media by my opponent, which is certainly no thanks to his party, who have been awfully absent from the media for most of the time or seem to believe that posting such vital comments as “vote” “Good job” “Good read” or any other such variation is a sign of activity.
I’d argue that my opponent can claim increasing the activity in Belgium in the same way an arsonist can claim to have increased the activity of the fire department. The fire department isn’t doing the firefighting because they like to be active, but because they must put out the raging fires the arsonist is starting.
The Economic “Agenda”
My opponent spent a comically large part of his “economic program” explaining what concessions are and why we need to start transforming our economy to give less concessions and instead get concessions ourselves to increase our productivity.
In order to achieve that, my opponent suggests a program to support or subsidize creating companies and make Belgian players self-sufficient. Since my opponent has a plan for his budget in the same way a dog has a plan to rob Fort Knox (so none at all), I’d like to get some figures straight.
We currently get 30k BEF per day from our concession partners. My opponent not only wants to replace those 30k BEF per day income by taxes and profits from the subsidized companies (we shall get to the profits soon enough) but also make even more than 30k BEF per day to allow for Belgium to get our own concessions. So, we would require an income of at least 100k BEF per day to get our current concessions, and this wouldn’t even guarantee us full production bonuses. Please be aware that our 50k daily income is divided into 30k from concessions and 20k from taxes! Even if we don’t get our own concessions, all of our companies would be established outside of Belgium to benefit from the production bonuses. This would not increase our income by much at all, since most taxes would go to the country where our players have their holdings.
Now regarding the profit from the companies. Logically speaking, a self-sufficient player will no longer need to buy goods from the market. Therefore, Belgium would turn into a producer state, but without anybody buying our goods, we’d have to sell outside of Belgium, thus not benefiting our own market at all but pushing those players away into foreign markets. This is not even considering the investment needed to make a player self-sufficient, which may take several months if not years even before he can make a profit. Especially considering that self-sufficiency depends on each individual player. A strong active fighter needs much more than a two-clicker.
Our government would therefore have to spend a tremendous amount of money to subsidize companies and wait several months if not years to start getting that money back. I’d like to remind each and every one, that there is no way to guarantee that the funds are used in an adequate manner. The risk of players just leaving or outright refusing to share their profits would make this sort of deal incredibly risky to the Belgian government.
Now my opponent wishes to continue the current programs as well as institute a food welfare program as well as the company subsidy program. Now since my opponent has absolutely ZERO figures in his “plans” I assume he’s either going to offer largely insignificant food programs or largely insignificant subsidies, therefore defeating the point of either of those programs.
That is why, I prefer to use our current funds to help our players right now! (Not in 2-3 years) and without such a substantial risk to our own income that would mean an end to any social welfare programs out there. By giving our players free food for air fights as well as weekly cash rewards, they can accomplish personal goals and use the reward to invest into the future the way they want. Be it by investing in companies or into better guns or exchanging that money into gold. We want to offer a choice!
The Foreign Affairs “Agenda”
My opponent has made some very bold claims towards our TW partners, accusing them of being unfairly cross against them because they are HOPE and not ATO. I would take such matters seriously if we didn’t have:
1. A CP so inactive in the beginning of her terms that she failed to launch TW when they needed to be launched and so unresponsive that it took almost an entire day for her to respond to a request by the Germans to start the TW.
2. A Minister of Defence who overhits in the German TW, in a battle that we are supposed to lose by such a comically large amount that it naturally pisses off anybody on the opposing side.
3. A Minister of Defence who also keeps fighting on the wrong sides of our TWs.
4. A potential TW with Japan, that is only possible if we give up one of our provinces and thus our concession on said province (we’re renting all our provinces atm) thus meaning less income for a war we can’t sustain. (Reminder, we don’t have many active fighters to deal with 2 TWs and a third one inside of our country would complicate the starting of our ongoing TWs even more, especially knowing our government has shown a tremendous amount of incompetence to start wars on time.
Maybe it’s not that our international partners dislike HOPE, but more that they dislike incompetent people? So maybe before our partner can treat us better, we should probably start treating them better, like equals maybe?
The Society “Agenda”
HOPE, the party that spent its entire existence declaring that any Constitution and outside Forum was stupid, useless and an oppressive measure. That refused to partake in them until ATO slowly got rid of it all to please them, now wants to re-establish a forum. The party that complained about the Forum Elite with their useless forum positions and that was so adamant of bringing Congress back ingame is now asking for those same positions to return. That’s got to be the biggest turn of the century since the Italians joined the Allies in the First and Second World War, combined! Let me remind you that Vincent Pain is still part of HOPE and clearly supports this move, a move he attacked in the past all so often!
Our government has been absolutely silent except publishing news about the Lotto, the BHP and using official government orgs to post comments and endorse CP candidates!
Our government has shown multiple times that it doesn’t want to interact with anybody of the opposition. Instead it attacks us for refusing to work with them, despite the fact that we regularly start discussions but see an outright refusal from HOPE members to partake in those discussions.
The latest example was the minimum wage proposal, started without discussion, with HOPE accusing ATO of not wanting to debate and then refusing themselves to debate ATO when they pointed out their position. The government also just started a MASS-PM with party representatives, a mere 3 days before new elections. Talk about communication!
I’ve learned that in order to inspire confidence, you need to lead with example. Clearly, we are unable to build bridges since one side is adamant on destroying said bridges and then wondering why there is no bridge anymore. My government will publish weekly reports as well as promote Congress activity with Mass-PMs with Congress representatives and new structures like the Immigration Committee.
Final Words
I’m not even going to bother addressing the proposed government of my opponent. We have members in there that have shown as much activity and competence as a rock. We have members in there who have abused social welfare programs without any repercussion! My opponent has once again made high and above promises without any real plan on how to achieve it all. He has once again sown distrust among our partners and claimed once again the big ATO conspiracy all the while making sure his friends profit of their position!
Maybe I’m not sheeple enough to buy their claims of conspiracy. Maybe I’m just a common sense person that cares about this country and has presented an honest, clear plan and way forward. My opponent has once again shown he cares more about sowing hate in this community and refuses to present concrete plans. The promised activity has been lacking, the government has shown contradictory positions and reeks of incompetence.
I’m looking forward to the HOPE activity under this article, if there’s even going to be any. Also worth pointing out that this article addressing my opponents program is longer than is entire program!
Much much love to everybody. Stay safe!
Comments
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Upvotes are more than welcome, feel free to add any comments regarding my policy or my arguments. Stay safe out there and much much love
So, you really read that I want to get rid of concessions like now? Very selective of you. I said we must keep concessions as they are vital. I also said that we should look forward into the distant future when we no longer require such concessions
Did I say you want to get rid of concessions immediately? I have stated that your final plan is to allow Belgium to get concessions to increase our own production bonuses, which would require money. Money we currently don't have as our income relies on concessions. You endgoal is to replace concessions with tax-income and "profits" from your company scheme, as I've explained above. I've also explained why I believe this will not give us any real income. Nevertheless, your current talks with Japan's TW also mean you are at least considering getting rid of concessions to allow them to land in our country. I want to remind you that this is a program for the next month, not one for 5-6 years until this entire thing comes into fruition, expect if you want to force players into making profits to get the investment back.
You keep talking about figures, but I wrote a election platform, not a budget. A budget is presented by the Minister of Fimace before spending, something that your party never did in 4 years. A budget is voted on and agreed to by congress after debate, again, something your party never did. If I was to present figures I would be overriding congress and excluding them from the process, like a monachy
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You are welcome 🙂
You do know the difference between a budget and a financial report dont you?
Thanks for a clarification on this, because I was about to ask you about the BHP. I haven't seen the budget proposal for it anywhere. You are here writing about how bad ATO is, and you are doing the same thing. Hm?
We are talking about my presidency, not GenX. Perhaps you should ask her
You are a part of her cabinet and her vice president. You are saying Genesis is a dictator and government doesnt debate on actions they do?
An election platform includes figures and numbers. It includes information that is necessary for the players to understand why they should vote for you because they can expect concrete help as well as for Congressmembers to know how you want to use it. I'm not sure if you understand how this works, but usually the government already has an idea how it wants to spend its money and how much of it, which is then voted by Congress. This doesn't mean overriding anything at all, Congress can always refuse any budget, but it at least helps them decide if that a good way to spend money. I'd argue that a dictatorship doesn't present any numbers at all, because they don't need transparency at all. My plan is helping Congress much more with exact figures so they know exactly what is planned to be spent instead of your idle promises that rely on complete trust.
I thing you are dead wrong. An election platform gives the idea of what political goals are to be achieved. Only a Monachy or Dictatorship can make concrete claims in a platform. If I am elected, and as I have said before, one of my goals will be to empower congress to take control of their own powers and not to be dictated to. I will ask congress for a budget through the Ministry of Finance. They can debate and change the figure as they see fit. If I was to ignore their crucial role in our democracy, I would not be doing my job. They need to decide, to their constituents how important BHA, A food bank or a business trust is. If they like the idea they will allocate funds as is their power. A president is a ruler yes, but their powers are also defined and limited especially when talking about the treasury. I, as a political agent who respects congress will not give figures that will more than likely be blocked by your congressman. I will let congress decide if my political vision is worth investing in
I disagree. I believe in Congress, but I also believe in the people and in information. Without information, nobody can make correct decisions and no one can address possible mistakes. By giving as much information as humanly possible, including figures, I show both Congress and the people what they can expect from this government and what my basis is. If they disagree, they won't vote for me or my budget and will critique it or give feedback. This is a truly democratic process, by giving as much information as possible. This is where you fail at, by giving unclear, vague promises and forcing the people and Congress to make decisions without adequate information. I'm the school teacher explaining things so that the students can understand and use it. I'm not deciding anything, nor forcing anybody to accept what I say. I want them to debate, by making clear what my position is and helping them have a clear idea of what I have in mind and what they can work around.
You're saying you're going to make everyone healthy. I'm saying we are going to help people get healthy by distributing free apples with a budget of 20k.
In your scenario, people and Congress have no idea what you wanna do and how you want to achieve that or what it can do.
In my scenario, people see what my clear plan is, they can suggest to put in more budget or less, they can suggest different fruits, maybe divide the budget and offer vegetables too. Maybe in the same way, increase taxation on unhealthy items to support the healthy food items.
More information is better! More information is democratic!
The TW with Japan is not even discussed to an extend that we can even discuss it yet. There is also a potential of a TW with Romania. Also, this is at a very early stage. We were approached, not the other way around. Why are you even mentioning something you picked up in with a small interaction between me and Curly on Discord? Are you that desperate? It formed absolutely no part of my platform. Maybe you should stick to that
Since it was mentioned in a public chatroom, I believe its public knowledge and free to be used in articles. Otherwise you would not have mentioned it. While it doesn't form a direct part of your platform, the sheer fact that you are currently looking into it, means you are considering the possibility of granting them one of our regions to land in to start the Training War, also meaning we would lose the concessions of that region. Which would in turn diminish our income and therefore also diminish the amount of social aid we can give to players. That would in turn mean less income for your plans as president. I believe this all ties into your platform so I will keep mentioning this.
You know literally nothing about it because there is really nothing to report on as yet.
I know that you are considering it, which implies all of the scenarios I'd addressed above.
In terms of my accusations, I was told by Curly that an allie of our refused to accept my friend request or communicate with me because they share the same view of immigration generated by HOPE. Our immigration is not the business of any other country but ours. We need to demand the respect that we deserve. I am sure that you are happy as a pig in mud that our major allies refuse to talk to me simply because they share your political ideology, even if this is at the expense of the country. Remember, you guys impeached your own government. You put us in power, then trolled and trolled us every opportunity you got. This is sabotage, plain and simple
" I was told by Curly that an allie of our refused to accept my friend request or communicate with me because they share the same view of immigration generated by HOPE."
I said it might be a reason. PTO is very frowned upon in case you didn't know. Nonetheless, the person in question was badgered by your gov by inquiries since you had no synchronization at all. Why do you feel entitled to any recognition when you don't do things properly?
I'm not able to comment on things I wasn't told about. What I do know and comment is your inactivity to address concerns of our training war partners as well as the inability of your own MoD to fight where he is supposed to fight; either fighting for the wrong side which is not in our interest or by over hitting in a battle we're supposed to lose which, also, is not in our interest.
Your own government is sabotaging itself with every waking move they do.This is not about political ideology, this is about a government in over their heads with people who don't understand or care about Belgium.
Once again I would ask you, if we are committing a PTO, why impeach you government as allow us to take over?
Because we can't fight it off since we have concessions of course. So might as well put you in power early and see what you can do. Let's just say we're not impressed 😂
Thanks for the warm words, couldn't have said better.
You really made me read both articles because I couldn't believe anyone would even consider changing concessions for local economy or additional Trainwars.
I don't mind people racing for a sh here and there, but what needs to be kept in mind is daytime, current campaign points etc. Oh yeah and a message to the government would be cool as well, communication is key.
No one is abolishing any concessions
We need to think about concessions this way. The way our country is now with the level of activity and population, it is in our best interest to continue with concessions. But we need to dream big. Where is our country going to be in a year or two years? We do have a dream to grow eBelgium to a point where we can use our resources to booster our own business and pay concessions to have better resources for our businesses. A concession away from us is turning a resource into an amount of money that needs to be administered by government. This is a form of socialism. I believe that letting businesses take a handle of their own destiny with the support of government will male many of the Soxial Programs we have to make to use the money we get from concessions, ansolete. This is a long term dream.
In terms 0f training wars, we have been contacted by two countries. I mentioned it to the guys on Discord to be open. At the moment they do not seem viable unless they give me a real good reason to go for it. It will then be presented to the Party Presidents so they can communicate it through to their Congress.
Nothing to say against that, but what has it to do with the upcoming elections? Nothing, cause reaching the amount of players needed in order to make it worth to rent the bonus you're missing has never been achieved in eBelgian history. As you said, it's a matter of years if it happens at all. We'll rather see another resource war before you'll reach that numbers.
The old government adjusted the resource war strategy to the best outcome for Belgium, allowing it to have a stable income despite having full bonus sets - why not simply admit that and be happy with what they achieved.
You've written a wall of text in your campaign, if you break it down you said near to nothing.
Thanks for the article!
You are making your case very clear, and now everyone is aware of what this election is all about.
HATE vs HOPE
Seriously, are you ok? I'm really worried, seems you really forgot your memory there. Please be careful next time and take it slow. You need to recover okay. I'm sending you lots of love while you do.
Please tell me, why is VP's Interview with a CP candidate okay to post in the National Feed but me posting my own plans is not? Care to explain the difference?
Personally - as a player - I supporting you in these elections.
You got more knowledge about the game and know how to use it.
If you lose, I suggest OKayOK to take you to gov, you would be great advisor for them.
Thank you for your personal support 🙂 I believe its important to be willing and open to talk, especially with our partners. Our relationship has always been up and down, very much like brothers fighting and then making up again. I wish to continue the excellent relations we have with our dutch friends and offer an open ear 🙂
Thank you for this analysis!