You ask, I deliver.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...budget1130.jpg

Figured I'd take the liberty of pushing a $10 billion stimulus towards the environment, education, telecom, and infrastructure sectors. Our population has grown by 300,000 since we took office, so we'll either need to figure out some way to reduce the population or increase jobs (possibly through the closing of our borders or limiting the number of children per household). Our debt is also increasing by about $188 million/month and I'm trying desperately to hold inflation steady, but at this rate, the interest rate will just continue to rise. I'm very resistant to upping the tax rate above 50%.

Also, we need a design for our destroyer.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6.../blueprint.jpg

The small blue dots are what levels of research we have completed so far in each area. If I max all of them out, that destroyer would cost about $1,600,000,000 each to build. If you change the design from a level 6 rating in one of the areas to level 5, that decreases the cost by $100 million. Changing from a 5 to a 4 decreases it by $50 million, and so on down the line, decreasing by about 50% per level, just to give you an idea of how it works.

Right now we don't need much, just something that can move and fire. We also need a name and a color.

No sensors, or any missile thing.
Armor to half.
Guns all max.
Speed max.
Counter measures to half.

The Pillar of Oster lives?

Course, that was designed to be every ship EVER...

Hmmm... How about the Van Speijk?

Ok assuming we are not going to go to war any more for a few years I would suggest pooling money into tourism on the budget so that we can grow our income from that prehaps we should pare down health care spending as well to help ease the budget burden that will also help us remove the extra population burden.

I think we need to go for minimalist healthcare spending and prehaps education spending we need to shrink our national debt as it stands we are losing budget money to the debt and the situation looks like it will only get worse so slashing spending looks to be the best option.

We are also losing 5B a year in trade any idea whats causing this and if it can be rectified?

So the doctrine will be to, instead of surrender, the captain is to blow up one's own ship?

No, fight until you run outta ammo. Then ram the enemy, then blow it up. :P

Six years later...
 

March 3, 2015

Way way too much happened in these six years for me to possibly hope to RP in this post, so here comes a condensed summary.

-July 10th, 2010 - The U.S. finally withdraws half its troops from Iraq.

-We landed an economic partnership with the U.S. and Romania, giving us needed vegetables and fruit.

-Ukraine and Russia signed an arms agreement which, years later, led to an alliance.

-(This one came before I saw Sifright's post, I will be making the changes to healthcare spending) In an effort to get rid of our excess population, I closed our borders to immigration and limited the number of children per family. I called this the "GTFO Act of 2012". Eventually, after I set the interest rate at 40% and the inflation rate went from 4.4% to a stable 3%, I opened the borders back up and lifted the limit. We are still in a nosedive, with a deficit of $90 billion and debt of over $600 billion.

-September 30th, 2011 - Slovakia declares war on Tonga.....then quickly signs a cease fire. Presumably because Slovakia discovered that they are, in fact, a landlocked country.

-I let the private sector take control of the fossil fuel, electricity, vegetables and fruit resources after they post higher than expected gains and no longer need our support to bring in income.

-The United Arab Emirates began researching missile defense...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...enary/sp47.jpg

...and the world flipped a shit.

Maybe they had good reason to go through with their research, what with the entire world just waiting for a reason to puree them. I noticed before this happened that they weren't on very good terms with anyone except the Saudis, but I didn't realize increasing defense equated to killing someone's family. That list goes on for about fifty more countries, and keeps growing, and has been going on now for almost three years. Their government must be in tatters, I'm impressed at their resilience. Also in response to that, Brunei and Qatar began their own missile defense programs. Still, I'm waiting for the final straw. They could literally be going to war at any time. And it could be with anyone. In the diplomatic relations window, they are blood red with almost the entire planet. Except the Saudis. Damn Saudis.

But back to our situation. I think with this little distraction we have an opening for another attack. I did some research and found Gabon and the Congo to be the most resource rich (and vulnerable) nations left in Africa. We could go in and make another dual strike, hopefully without many noticing.

Well... that's just odd seeing as how every one hates the ARE why not try suggesting to nato they go to war with them? we join in an occupy as many territories as possible in the ensueing chaos?

...Wow.

What's our military standing right now, and locations?

I like the idea of taking out the Congo and Gabon and try and aquire resources. Maybe have Maurtiana a target to give us leeway, or we have the troops in Maurtiana go after Gabon and Congo, if allowable.

Also, this is an odd one, but what are the laws like pertaining to gay marriage and marijuana?