Liberty Populist Reform Party

[DartStriker]

To the PRP,

I like how you assume all my points are invalid, and all yours are correct. The standard politician.
You act as if Liberty has the resources to carry out these projects, just because you put more money into the navy doesn't mean an equal return on jobs and money back into the economy. You're vision is not realistic.
Liberty is in dire need of reforms, that is for certain. Although you have a strange opinion on the cause and effect of your proposed solutions.

1. Liberty already spends more on Defense then almost any other nation. The numbers are astronomical already and you want an increase of 200%, creating more jobs in that sector doesn't guarantee a positive return in money back into the economy. In fact in almost all case money spent in the military sector is returned with loss. You can trace through out history that the military budget comes back to the economy with only about 78% of what is spent. That means needless spending will always drain the nations reserve. We are not at risk of being over run anytime soon by another country that is in just as bad financial situation as we are. The future of warfare will be conducted on paper, and in the markets. Our brave men and women of the Liberty Primary fleet have driven off attack after attack from Rhineland intruders, and I see no reason to inflate one of the largest and most victorious naval forces in space.

2. This brings us to the point about needless spending. You are correct I did ask for a freeze on government spending, but you failed to mention I stated a freeze on needless government spending. Such as over inflating the military budget of an effective and working force. Needless spending is any money the government wastes on things we don't need but want so we feel a little better about ourselves at night. Things like terraforming planets, at a time of financial ruin. We need to focus on education, and better train and equipment for police officers. We need to stop just grabbing credits and flailing them at our problems in hopes they will fix themselves.

3. Junkers, your opinion that making jobs is just as easy as saying there is an empty position fill it, send them a government paycheck. Jobs increase equals economic increase, and that is true. But you can't just create jobs out of nothing, or ruin something that is good and replace it with a red tape wrapped, government run program that employs people just so you can say you create new jobs. I'm sorry it doesn't work like that, any jobs directly created by the government and run by the government will suffer when they boomerang back into the economy. A government run salvage operations will be no better then military spending, you can employ every person in liberty and it will float for several years, maybe the entire time your party is in office but it will never fly. As it takes on more and more bureaucratic water it will sink and leave our children's children's with greater mounting debt. The government isn't run like a business, it doesn't drive for a high profit margin, and that is why it fails. Right now we pay nothing for the junkers to do their jobs, but their people spend money in liberty, spend money on goods made in liberty, and that is why it is profitable to the government and liberty in general. Sure they have their problems, but I have seen problems with all the factions in Liberty, and in fact the rest of the galaxy. It's human nature, we need to learn to live and adept it to our goals.

4. You talk about proof, but present none yourself. The big Companies didn't bankrupt Colorado. Government regulations on big government strangled the life from Big business in Colorado, and when it left the entire operations went down hill. You assume that police corruption is directly link to big companies, but I haven't seen any evidence that links them together. Come on, police corruption stems from many places, and your callous assertion that it is caused by big business just proves your disregard for truth.

I don't think you are bad people PRP, I think your hearts are in the right place. But I seriously doubt you ability to lead our nation into the future.
Sincerely
-A concerned Citizen.

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