How NOT to run for President
ligtreb
I read an article a few days ago that made me angrier than I've been in a while. I gave AidenAstrup some time to show evidence of his outlandish claim that the USA is 12,500 gold in debt, 8,000 to a mysterious organization known as the Federal Reserve.
Despite repeated requests, neither I or anyone else has been shown documentation, a law in Congress, a post in the Select Committee on Intelligence, or even donation records that prove our government owes the Federal Reserve 8,000 gold.
After his article, I cannot support AidenAstrup's run for President.
He used a crisis for political gain, and it looks like he may have exaggerated the crisis as well.
If you found out there was a major problem in this country, which would you do?
1) Work with the government to try to fix it.
2) Write a campaign article, telling people to vote for you so you can fix it.
Most people would do #1, or at least do #1 before doing #2. Aiden chose only #2.
This is a hard article for me to write. Back when I was a newb, AidenAstrup was my mentor during my first run for Congress. He's done great work for this country and knows the game very well. But Aiden has failed us all here.
The Federal Reserve was never approved by Congress and has no governmental oversight. There is no record of them loaning 8,000 gold to the government, let alone the government agreeing to it. Even if AidenAstrup is elected, I urge Congress not allow AidenAstrup to send 8,000 gold to the Federal Reserve without proof the debt exists.
But let's assume for this argument Aiden's numbers are correct. He doesn't have to be President to start solving the problem. Congress controls our budget, even though the President has a lot of influence. Aiden is a 14-time Congressman and clearly knows the economics of this game very well. Surely, he could propose some bills that would help us repay the debt. He hasn't.
If he was busy, he could've alerted someone with some say in how things were done (Congress, Executive) and let them do the work. He hasn't.
Even if Aiden's numbers are right, it looks like he's using this crisis for his political gain, putting himself above the country.
I want a President who takes action first, and takes credit later. I have no problem with any Presidential candidate (or citizen for that matter) bragging about their accomplishments and asking for votes because of them. But don't ask for votes for something you're planning to do when there's nothing stopping you from doing it right now.
I do think AidenAstrup could make a good President someday, but cannot support him for now because of his approach. I'd also love to hear how he would pay off 12,500 gold worth of debt without raising taxes or cutting military spending -- because I don't see how it's possible without one or the other. That just sounds like another politician comment, something I thought Aiden was above.
I hope AidenAstrup learns from this, and runs for President again in the future. He is still one of the more valuable citizens this country has. He just crossed the line this time.
UPDATE: None of this reflects on Devan Kronos (Aiden's VP pick) at all. Devan Kronos is a friend and someone who I hope runs for President someday.
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I didn't want to have to write this article, but felt it was necessary.
Indeed.
Sounds like a sneaky thing to do.
This is important stuff and needed to be said. Thanks, ligtreb.
I agree...
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It though it was total BS. If there was a debt there would be plenty of congressmen using it to get votes as well.
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Good call ligtreb.
Good article, voted
Voted. What a shame 😕
I am still a supporter of Aiden but I would like to see him answer a few questions about this in an official forum to see if he can clear this all up once and for all
I knew something was up. Great article, and it helped me realize to not believe everything on paper. Thank you, I will be waiting for more.
an unfortunate situation. voted :/
Devan Kronos is a good dude and I would vote for almost anyone he ran with... except Aiden, who I feel has lied to the American people and attempted to manipulate them with the fear of the lie he told.
I cannot and will not vote for someone who has to sink that low.
🙁
Truth.
Tho I still love Devan.
Wow
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If anyone could say the above with legitimacy, it is Ligtreb.
Hmmm "used a crisis for political gain"
Mr. Obama shouldn't you be running the real US instead of playing ERepublik.
Honesty FTW! Thanks for keeping the eWorld in line, Ligtreb!
Kongress is putting together a (hopefully more objective) group to look this through in an orderly manner and hopefully we can convince PiZ and sydiot to help us out. it is still too early to be shouting from the rooftops that this is a scam and Aiden is making shit up etc. Imo this is a premature article from batterytime and while I admit we are in a tenuous position and it was not handled in the best possible manner we do have hopes for a publicly done resolution when we can gather sufficient evidence/testimony
Expecting a payment of 8000 gold without proof of a debt owed to an organization everyone forgot about is a bit obscene. Get an answer from Sydiot but without a screenshot or something of proof of payment this is a ridiculous expectation.
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This is one of the reasons Litgreb should run for president. This is a very good article, and has discouraged me from voting AA.
"Mr. Obama shouldn't you be running the real US instead of playing ERepublik."
xD
lig, run for president next month
Got to admire a man who says the hard facts about his mentor. Way to go Ligtreb.
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Also, Donkey Kong rocks my bag.
Anaros, how is it to early to try to call aiden out, but Aiden is perfectly fine with running a campaign based on this issue, before even bringing it before the Federal reserve board? (the board is still there, for some reason we never deleted it).
Completely agree with ligtreb here. As one of the RL US administration officials once sai😛
"A crisis is a terrible thing to waste"
(P.S. Run for president! 😃)