Declaration of Intent - Adam Griffin for GA Congressman
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by Adam Griffin
Hello everybody! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Adam Griffin, and I am seeking the congressional seat in the great state of Georgia.
Backstory
I was born into the eWorld on a balmy summer night (Day 531) in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. I quickly realized that to support my country and bring about the great changes I envisioned, I must become acquainted with the political and economic layout of our country. I spent many eDays reading and learning, sitting quietly until I was ready and fluent enough in the world to pursue the American dream.
I was almost ready, until that day came that we all remember. The day that Russian troops landed on our soil. I knew this would completely and forever change the course and history of the eUS. I put my political track on hold, and got involved in grassroots resistance. I initiated several lotteries which brought in gold for resistance wars, moving tickets for stranded citizens, and tank support. My proudest moment was playing an integral role in the organized resistance that liberated Kansas from the Russians.
Every American has played a part in maintaining our country. From civilians to soldiers, from politicans to editors, we all have extended a hand to aid Mother Liberty in her plight against tyranny. That is why America is so great. That is why America will never be defeated. Despite our initial lack of organization, we have shown our oppressors that we cannot be taken down so easily. We have shown that a nation of 51 regions, when pushed back to having only one region can still rise from the ashes and claim its rightful destiny in this eWorld. We all have a part to play in this still, and I am ready to accept my role in becoming your congressman from Georgia.
How Far We Have Come
When the invasion began, our country was a divided mess. The USWP reigned supreme, unwilling to listen to others about the fatal errors that the government was committing that would later jeopardize our nation's security. The other parties slandered, fought, and bickered with each other over the remaining crumbs of power that fell to the floor from the proverbial table of privilege. Our party ultimately saw defeat, as it should have in any healthy democracy, with the election of Emerick. Emerick brought about the change that was necessary in desperate times, and fortified the nation into one solid entity. The USWP was forced to reconsider their ideas and strategies, and after losing many members due to the leaders' ignoring of their suggestions, has restructed itself into a proud, humble party once again. Today, we see parties of completely different affiliations protecting each other from PTOs. What a long way we have come in the past two months!
What I Will Do For You
I will listen to your ideas. I will do my best to serve the ideas of the people and will never vote on an issue for my own gain. I will not take your vote for granted, as many politicians do. I will stand with the people and my country before my party. I will work as hard as I can to bring about security, structure, and prosperity to all states once again.
Legislative Goals During the War
It is hard to implement domestic change during an invasion. Most of my ideas are pending peace being restored in the eUS. What I will do while this war is ongoing is:
- Analyze all current tax rates to ensure we are utilizing them in an efficient way for both the government and the people
- Promote a "Buy-American" attitude that will prevent our economic output from being used against us
- Extend benefits to the mentoring program established during the Emerick Administration
- Attempt diplomacy with Latin America in order to ease strained tensions
The Main Goal After the War
My main goal after this war is ended is a lofty one, but one that I am sure the American people can rise up to and meet. I am looking to establish (9) Q5 Hospitals and (9) Defense Systems. That's a lot of money, right? Well, we have a lot money. I have seen so much generosity from citizens during this war; when I was running the lotteries we raised more gold than I thought was possible considering the economic condition of the country. People reached down deep into their pockets and gave what they could, and it snowballed from there. Once our country is back on track, these hospitals and defense systems can be established without raising taxes on anything. Lotteries and donations will pave the way to great wellness and superb defense.
Where will these infrastructures be set up? My plan would call for one of each to be established in the following states:
Florida
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Arkansas
Texas
Arizona
California
Washington
The model for this is based on resources, not population. Population hubs can move according to where they want to be, but our resources must be protected in the event of another invasion. Establishing infrastructure in these key-resource states will help establish that. If you are interested furuther in my logic of these placements, feel free to analyze the resources of each of these regions; this article isn't really the place for the in-depth discussion of that at this point. Seperately, for the people of my great state I want to see at least a Q4 Hospital re-established. The Portuguese don't know what hospitals look like and they burnt ours down in confusion when they came marching into Atlanta!
In all seriousness, I want to be your congressman. I want to bring change and prosperity about in ways I know we can accomplish. When you cast your vote on Election Day, please consider me.
Sincerely,
Adam Griffin
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Like your infrastructure plan, you've got my vote.
Thanks for the support!
How can you be both proud and humble?
You can be proud of where you came from, but humble about where you may go. Most people would fit into this category.
Good luck Adam!
Thanks ligtreb!
I should've voted for you. I should've thought about ym vote a little more, but I will be happy to vote for you come next election.
Good luck to you Adam. Happy to have fought alongside you in Kansas.
Thanks Phoenix. It truly was a honor to fight with you.
Pride is one of the 7 deadly sins...just saying lol
But in seriousness I support your platform and like it a lot too!
America can only support and defend 2 viable q5 hospitals. However, placing them by resources is the way to decide infrastructure placement.
Ridiculous. That was the strategy we had the last time, and did it work? Anyone in the US can fight anywhere in the US from any state, so we should expand as much as is able. This would provide stronger walls in multiple regions which have valuable resources, giving us an extra boost in defense. With the game mechanics in eR, it's not like we're actually splitting our population up.
The hospitals would do just that: spread out the population, making it easier and cheaper to take each region holding the hospitals. All those states (but one) were previously taken including a NJ that had 3k+ citizens in it. Ironically the last and only state not to fall was the one with 9k citizens in it. So yes, the idea of creating fortress states that are so big and costly to attack did work. All spreading out infrastructure would do is cost more gold to build in the first place. Only to lose it in a later invasion because we can't defend it.
We only need to defend one high resource region of each. CA has two, then all we need is wood. Protecting medium resource regions is a waste. There is no reason to protect multiple regions with the same resource.
Cost to attack one region with 9,000 people: 2,300 Gold
Cost to attack nine regions with 1,000 people: 2,700 Gold
So no, it wouldn't be cheaper. The reason we lost was because of the lack of organization. Q5 defense system would boost the wall by 50% in nine regions, as opposed to just boosting it in one region. Since these are spread out, it's highly unlikely that more than one could be attacked simultaneously. Every American citizen can defend any American territory under attack. As far as protecting medium resources, it is not a waste if it's the only one you've got with a certain source (Arkansas is the only region with diamonds, AZ is a border state with iron, etc).
You misunderstood me. I said by spreading out the population it would make it easier and cheaper to take each region. Total yes, it would cost more in declaration, but it would be easier and cheaper to take each region individually. Not to mention the contract cost of 9 dual q5s would be 5400g or 1200g for 2, which far outweighs the extra 400g needed to attack.
If each state had 1000 people in it, it would only take 5 fully funded 18 strength FMs (at a cost of around 1265g) to do the additional 150,000 damage to destroy the wall. If we had even two regions with 4500 people in them, it would take 23 fully funded 18 strength FMs (at a cost of 5819g) to do the additional 675,000 damage to destroy the wall. Or if we had just one region it would take 45 tanks (at a cost of around 11,385g) to do the additional 1,350,000 damage needed to destroy the wall. These don't even include any gold needed to match our damage - this is just gold to destroy the walls.
It's much easier and cheaper to find five 18 strength FMs and give them 1265 gold to tank a wall down, than it is to find 45 tanks and 11,385g. PEACE has shown an affinity to coordinate their attacks. They would almost certainly attack at least two of your 1000 population states, and find 10 tanks to destroy the walls for 2530g.
Essentially the costs would be the same for tanking but we can lose 9 regions for that enormous cost (including the 5400g for the dual Q5s), or we can lose one or two regions for that same enormous cost(and only 1200g for the Q5s). I would rather lose one or two regions than 9. We can make it hard to take 9 regions or we can make it ridiculously hard to take 2 regions.
As you stated in paragraph 3, it's the same tanking cost regardless of one region with 9,000 people or nine regions with 1,000 people, so I'll go ahead and cancel all that out. You do understand that it's not just tanks that fight, right? Citizens contribute a vast percentage of damage done. Citizens can fight from any state in any state. Meaning, if PEACE attacks NJ & FL, ***every citizen in every state can fight against PEACE***. The only advantage to what you are saying is that perhaps with all of the population in one state like we have now (which will not last), that the wall could be high enough that another country couldn't take it down, thereby giving us the offensive.
When America is stabilized again, economically and militarily, the cohesiveness that we have forged won't allow this to happen again. When PEACE is defeated, there will never be another attack as coordinated on us as there has been. We will crush future threats. Americans have the right to live where they want, or at the very least have more than two choices. We have 51 regions, and the problem with why we fell so quickly was because 49 of them weren't fortified AT ALL. It was a joke for them to cross our continent. The more money we spend in peace time on strengthening our infrastructure, the more money PEACE is going to have to spend in wartime to counteract it.
Citizen soldiers excel at building up walls and tearing them down, but we would need over 110 "average" citizens(assuming they fight 10 times in one battle with 10 q1 weapons) to equal one PEACE tank. Tanks are the ones that win battles. He who spends more gold on tanking wins the battle period. Hungary and Indonesia if they choose to do so, can put out more damage as two nations than all of America and most of our MPPs.
The reason we were invaded was partly due to the very hubris you speak of. Do not presume that because we have extra hospitals and defenses that they will not be able to take our country in the future if they so choose. You said it yourself, the advantage of massive walls is that most countries can't tear them down. The few that can will have a hard time doing it. Us getting the initiative is everything in the current war module, which having a massive wall too large to even tank down will give us.
The reason our states fell was because our enemies as a whole put out almost twice as much damage in any given battle than we do. Hungary alone deals 3 million damage when their citizens fight - in contrast the US does slightly under 1.5 million. Please explain to me how a 150,000 pt wall will stop them? While you are at it, please explain the advantage of living in GA as opposed to FL within the context of this game? And finally, why the grain in KS is better than the grain in CA?
In RL different states mean something, the mechanics of this game make individual states exactly the same except that some have high resources and border other regions, and some do not.
I'm in.
I have a question did you ask the leaders of these Great States..... Im sorry to be so negative but You can just go in a say hey Im placing this in your state... Dont worry I will soon take over as well.. I think we are in need of a recovery. I dont agree with you. I am sorry you dont have my vote and people think about it.... Do you think we will like if another state came and said Too bad Im placing a hospital here or a military base..... Not only it isnt fair they woudldnt like it.... If that ever happends to us i would expect the leader in GA to do something about it....... I would declare war against that state......
I really dont think we are ready to go in another war....
I really think that Colombia should take over USA as well
I like your ideas for Tennessee. oh how i miss etennesssee. youve got my vote
@ Myateo: There are no "leaders" of states. The President of the USA has the sole discretion and ability of where to place hospitals and defense systems. You also can't declare war against another state in your country.
My support!!! BTW I'm running for congress too! I plan to run very similar to Adam! Good Luck!!!
Question if your in congress how do you plan on getting this stuff on your list done. Seems like big goals that are hard for a congress member to achieve.
@ Kyle: My goals aren't that big, when you know what you are doing:
"Analyze all current tax rates to ensure we are utilizing them in an efficient way for both the government and the people"
Most members of Congress engage in this activity; once the war ends all members of Congress will need to evaluate how to lower taxes since lower taxes during peace time is a proven successful way of managing the economy.
"Promote a "Buy-American" attitude that will prevent our economic output from being used against us"
This can be done on my own through media outreach/promotion. I've already been doing this; read some of my previous articles.
"Extend benefits to the mentoring program established during the Emerick Administration"
Again, fairly simple. Most congressmen would support expanding this idea and allocating funds for it.
"Attempt diplomacy with Latin America in order to ease strained tensions"
I have a voice, and I plan to use it. If the government will not reach out, then I will. It may not do anything, but I'm willing to try.
And as far as the infrastructure plan goes, the concept is simple. I've ran lotteries in the past for different causes; this would be a way to raise revenue and not raise taxes.
John- Thank you for reminding him of the lesson of Florida, the only reason it didn't work is because the invasion came in on the west coast where our fortresses were on the east coast. Only a population that is approaching 5000 stands a chance at being a deterient to invasion. There is no reason for more than the high resource regions nearest to the gateways. Anything more is a waste of money due to the fact they will just be destroyed in another invasion.
Vote Sheriff Yoda for a safe and secure eUSA.
LOL, you trolls are unbelievable. I'm not talking about spending tax money, so anything that would be "wasted" would be irrelevant from the perspective of the taxpayer. It would be a voluntary system, where citizens of a particular state can choose to establish these infrastructures and contribute to the cost. If people want to combine their money and establish a hospital and/or defense system, it's going to happen, and I'm going to support it.
Regardless of if a citizen is in Florida or Alaska, if a region comes under attack, anyone from any state can assist in the fight. It may cost less to attack an individual state but from the overall picture it will cost the enemy more. We see now how ineffective the scheme of tanks is becoming due to the recent increased cohesiveness within FORTIS/EDEN nations. So I say, let them waste their money. Let them try to come back in after we rebuild. If everyone does their job right and plays their part, it doesn't matter if we have 51 regions with 200 people in each. We will win regardless.
Now I see you say that "the people" should be able to have hospitals/defense systems in their states if they get together to get them build.
Is it "the people" who move money and soldiers around to fund and coordinate military efforts on everyone's behalf? No, it's the government.
This isn't like real life where "the people" should get whatever they put their blood, sweat, and tears into.
This is a game and in this game, we must put up a coordinated defense plan, which includes not encouraging the population to spread itself so thin that it lowers the walls of each of the Q5 states. Anything more than 2 Q5 fortress states is unsustainable and indefensible at the moment.
If we don't work together, by putting citizens where they can do the most good to increase the defense of the nation, we all will fall down. Our regions will all fall, our economy will be toast.
Adam- Sorry, not a troll, I'm your opponenet who is challenging your ideas. Nothing personal, I just think you're wrong. The lesson of Florida is obvious, high walls are a nessecity to our security. Your plan would have us build nine speedbumps which have been DEMOSTRATED not to work. Lest you forget the excersise in herding cats the early war was. We HAVE to have our fortress BEFORE the invasion, trying to build it afterwards is what nearly lost us this war, not the concept of having two fortress regions. And that was with the efforts of the Government passing out free moving tickets to get people to Florida or New Jersey.
Indeed it could be argued that we had three or four in this war CA, KS, NJ and Florida. Furthermore, look at what our enemies have done and are doing, they are trying to get their populations into the states they hold. Indonesia did it, Iran did it, Hungary is doing it. Seems to me they understand the value of a high wall.
Well said Astra Kat.
Adam- I have to agree with you that it is a little frustrating being one of only two canidates taking this seriously, and I thank you for the civil debate on the issue, however as I pointed out on Yoda's Yammerings I think the wall DID make a difference. While nothing happens in this game in a vaccum the simple fact is that PEACE can put out 3 million points of damage when they are firing on all cylinders, we can put out 1.5 million, Florida's wall is close to 1.5 million that is almost three million right there, that is daunting. If Florida's wall was lower, Florida WOULD'VE been attacked, the benefit of knocking it out would've been too great NOT to make the attempt, but with the wall as high as it is, failure to win in Florida was nearly a foregone conclusion for PEACE, or more specifically Russia as they've been all but abandoned in North America by their overlords.
Oh...one more thing, if Defense Systems and Hospitals did something for the econonmy it would be one thing, but they don't. The only time location is important in this game is when you are running a raw materials company, otherwise it doesn't matter except for national borders, anyone can work anywhere from the two fortress states that are planned. Until that is changed building "infrastructure" doesn't make sense as they do not add to the economic out put of a given state or the nation as a whole. They only exsist, at this point, as tools for the military, therefore only defense considerations should be used in deciding how many and where they go.