But he lives in Denver, and it's Perianwyr.

The 'New Deal' that got America out of the 30s depression was pretty much liberal tax and spend, you know. When the economy and society are out of whack, only governmental interventionism can correct the situation. Competent interventionism, of course, or else much protest and upheavals ensue as various group comptete to tell the government what needs to be done which can get ugly.

Laissez-faire policies only work well when the economy function efficiently and society is fairly stable without too large a proportion of the population living in the gutter. Not exactly Seattle's situation.

No doubt that for Seattlite, Strouthers is the best choice or at least the lesser of three evils. Which just won't do for my campaign! Mwahaha!

Actually, if you look at it in detail, it was WW2. Most of the other policies were at best ineffective. For example, raising food prices and cutting production when people can't afford food doesn't seem like such a good idea in restrospect, now does it?

AFAIK the cutting down on food production to raise price was a reaction from the various agriculture actor (mostly farmer during the era), not from the government.

If you are a farmer living of the land, breaking your back to deliver a product that isn't being paid enough to make it worth your while, you might as well cut down on your production (therefore your costs) and only sell at a higher price to people who can afford it while you yourself can still eat and trade your production so that your family doesn't starve.

Is it good for the out of work factory worker? No. But for the farmer it's the best way he can weather the storm. Makes sense in hindsight, no?

AFAIK, the New deal was mostltly the large government sponsored construction project to give work to the population (and improve the country's infrastructure while they were at it) and direct help to the destitute. And that did help. The US were on the way to recovery before WWII. Or else they wouldn't have won! As it is, the US barely made it in the pacific. The nuclear bombs were as much a desperation measure as anything else ; the US was going pretty much bankrupt and couldn't sustain the war effort much longer. (Not that you could say the Japanese would have won without the nuclear bombs ; just that the US was almost going to be forced to negotiate instead of being able to demand unconditional surrender if it weren't for the bombs).

Anyway, the point is WW2 wasn't good for the US economy ; the victory was (very, very good). And the US wouldn't have won if its economy hadn't regained much vitality during the late 30s.

And finally, SR Seattle desesperately needs a government that is going to intervene a lot because the Barrens sure as hell aren't going to fix themselves.

Umm, no. Wickard v. Filburn.


And something should be done, but, to quote SM Stirling (on a different universe) "it's a dystopia,".

Note the supression of Elven lifespan research by Universal Omnitech. Oh, they*claim* that earlier "Immortality Gene" discoveries were unreliable, but, smells like coverup to me.

Just remember that while Orks are on their third, or sometimes fourth, generation, no Elf or Dwarf has yet died of old age.

Yet we can't reconfigure teh educational system or the social security network, due to laws about fairness, despite a native inequality. So, first, we have to declare their non-human status, then we can build laws that are more in keeping with their unique qualities.

For example, everyone knows about current incarceration rates for Orks. What is a fair penalty for a human, locking them away for ten years, is a virtual death sentence for an Ork but is less than a slap on the wrist for an Elf. Can you say that a ten year imprionment is really a detterent for a being that will live to be a thousand? Or that locking an Ork up for "Tusk on Tusk Crime", where no innocents are really harmed, is worth putting them to death?

I say no.

And I say that Brackhaven will be the light that sheds this dark gloom over our legal system and sets things right.

(The above is paid for by teh Humanis Policlub, and does not represent teh opinions of moderators or posters on this board)

Uh, I am a Dwarf, it's my street name.

Your assuming that she isn't a part of the New Revolution and her seccession promises aren't actually a ploy to begin reuniting the USA. If say, for example, she were to seccessed and then join the CAS for no apparent reason that would be a pretty good internationally justifiable excuse to invade and anex the Confederation, but more likely they're going with the soft-sell aproach with political manuvering that will somehow encourage the CAS to seek reunification, possibly by having Seatle go batshit insane, invade the Continental CAS with military support from Aztlan, and the UCAS would come to the rescue. A little bit of fabricated evidence could then be used to support the invasion of TT.




Wakshaani, Humanis is secretly run by a filthy troll. A vote for Brakhaven is a vote for the domination of trolls over humans. Why, I bet he'd declare martial law and impose rules that let an army of love trolls go around and do anyone they want.

That would be Alamos2k, and it is run by some other nutcases, too.

Hmmm... I think Bubba the Love Troll will be voting for Brakhaven.

But Humanis was run by the Troll.

The very next book will have an update on the Seattle election situation.

Wow, I'm shocked someone caught that!

I can't argue that point.