Upper Xen
06-03-2005, 01:59
OOC: Inspired by the Sevarin General Elections.
IC:
http://espn.starwave.com/i/magazine/new/ron_burgundy.jpg
"Hello Upper Xen, this is Ron Burgundy. It's that time of year again. Yes, it is time to vote and decide who gets to be the next President of Upper Xen."
"The following candidates are posting their candicacy, it is expected to be a fierce race between rivals Iwata and Lew for the title."
FREEDOM PARTY:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/Senor_Nb3/index.jpg
Candidate: Gordon Lew
Description: Lew has a tough night ahead of him. His feel good pro-business economic policies, plus his support of big-budget welfare programs, crime reduction programs and tax reductions scored points with the unions and businesses, but the fact that most of them lowered enviriomnetal standards and hampered civil liberties made him an enemy in the eyes of leftists and envriomentalists. He also has come under fire for scandals in the CIA and his controversial overtures towards MassPwnage, known to use slave labor. Nonetheless, with 77% Worker Enthusiasm and 94% Consumer Confidence, he and his policies has much in the way of support.
Agenda:
-Maintain Current Level of Defense Spending, as well as Law and Order Spending
-Maintain the Government policy of keeping its funds in the National Bank of Upper Xen.
-Maintain the "3/4ths Policy" (the various Government enterprises, like the National Health Corporation, National Armscorp, and National Bank of Upper Xen are 3/4ths private, the government has the other 25%)
-Maintain Xenizen Troops in Mexico and in Generian, Euroslav, and Hellenic Asia Minor
-Create the Intellegence Oversight Commission to handle the CIA and National Police, and prevent them from abusing their powers
-Keep the existing welfare programs ("welfare to work" vocational training, Social Security pensions, affirmative action for colleges, food stamps, etc) within the government, and maintain their current level of high funding.
-Create an ROTC-style military program for the Middle School and High School Level, and establishing special schools for those gifted
-Redistribute the tax burden so it is more equitable for all Xenizens
-Wishes to keep outsourcing banned, and continue enacting probusiness legislation to protect Xenizen industries and promote development, as well as keep government involvement in the economy limited (Xenizen Gov't mandates safety, min. wage, closed shop, healthcare/dental plans for workers)
-Wishes to keep current liberalized gun laws
-Wishes to keep immigration levels at 120,000 per year
-Wishes to keep the current Peace Protection Laws regulating the National Police (as of now, they can use summary execution versus serial killers, drug dealers, and terrorists, and they have broad powers in other fields)
-Wishes to keep current taxes on Atheists, bans on Mormons and Christian Scientists, and maintain the Interdenominational Conclave (the religious advisory body to the UX Government. They also can issue joint statements and run all seminaries).
New Homeland Party
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/Senor_Nb3/_leona.jpg
Candidate: Yuri Iwata
Description:
A coalition of the traditional leftist faction, the Green Worker's Party, and the Leftist Federalists (the original party of Gordon Lew that was shattered by his policies), they are determined to bring about reform to Upper Xen. They are commanded by 22-year old Yuri Iwata, a comic-book artist turned Socialist agitator. Since its adoption of National Communism, the party is more determined than ever to unseat Gordon Lew, and it draws strength from both sufferign farmers and urban intellectuals, as well as dissdents of all stripes in Wuhan, Manchuria, and in the Kansai region.
Agenda:
-Wants to abolish the National Bank of Upper Xen, replace it with a series of treasuries
-Wishes to increase restrictions on firearms
-Wishes to keep the military and civilian educational system seperate
-Wishes to abolish taxes on athiests and the Interdenominational Conclave
-Wishes to make the National Health Corporation totally government owned
-Wishes to make college free for all
-Wishes to recall troops from Mexico, and Asia Minor
-Wishes to restructure military for a defensive role, and create a rapid reaction force for foreign wars using the Marines and the Air Force
-Wishes to abolish the CIA and National Police, replacing them with new Domestic and Foreign Security Directorates
-Wishes to fight trusts at home and increase government regulation of the economy, as well as nationalize National Armscorp totally
-Wishes to expand the welfare system to subsidize housing and basic resources, as well as provide for everybody
-Wishes to increase civil rights for Xenizens (gay marriage, privacy rights, downloadign music for free, etc.)
-Wishes to enact taxes on corporations and businesses with more than 16 employees and a USD$10,000,000 profti per year
-Wishes to reform Peace Protection Laws to make them more favorable to rights of privacy, and other civil rights
-Wishes to focus on rehabilitaion and prisoners' rights, and abolish the chain gang, as well as punish those criminals accusd of embezzlement and fraud with time in regular prisons
-Wishes to limit use of death penalty and revoke National Police powers of "summary execution"
-Wishes to enact harsher environmental regulations, and punish those companies who violate them with fines and jail time
-Wishes to allow for abolition of the Electoral College, and allow for direct election of the President and members of Congress for a single six-year term.
-Wishes to allow more Immigrants into the country (260,000 opposed to 120,000), and allow a "touch-base" immigration policy (any refugee that sets foot on Xenizen soil is automatically a citizen)
"So...with that, you stay classy, Upper Xen."
IC:
http://espn.starwave.com/i/magazine/new/ron_burgundy.jpg
"Hello Upper Xen, this is Ron Burgundy. It's that time of year again. Yes, it is time to vote and decide who gets to be the next President of Upper Xen."
"The following candidates are posting their candicacy, it is expected to be a fierce race between rivals Iwata and Lew for the title."
FREEDOM PARTY:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/Senor_Nb3/index.jpg
Candidate: Gordon Lew
Description: Lew has a tough night ahead of him. His feel good pro-business economic policies, plus his support of big-budget welfare programs, crime reduction programs and tax reductions scored points with the unions and businesses, but the fact that most of them lowered enviriomnetal standards and hampered civil liberties made him an enemy in the eyes of leftists and envriomentalists. He also has come under fire for scandals in the CIA and his controversial overtures towards MassPwnage, known to use slave labor. Nonetheless, with 77% Worker Enthusiasm and 94% Consumer Confidence, he and his policies has much in the way of support.
Agenda:
-Maintain Current Level of Defense Spending, as well as Law and Order Spending
-Maintain the Government policy of keeping its funds in the National Bank of Upper Xen.
-Maintain the "3/4ths Policy" (the various Government enterprises, like the National Health Corporation, National Armscorp, and National Bank of Upper Xen are 3/4ths private, the government has the other 25%)
-Maintain Xenizen Troops in Mexico and in Generian, Euroslav, and Hellenic Asia Minor
-Create the Intellegence Oversight Commission to handle the CIA and National Police, and prevent them from abusing their powers
-Keep the existing welfare programs ("welfare to work" vocational training, Social Security pensions, affirmative action for colleges, food stamps, etc) within the government, and maintain their current level of high funding.
-Create an ROTC-style military program for the Middle School and High School Level, and establishing special schools for those gifted
-Redistribute the tax burden so it is more equitable for all Xenizens
-Wishes to keep outsourcing banned, and continue enacting probusiness legislation to protect Xenizen industries and promote development, as well as keep government involvement in the economy limited (Xenizen Gov't mandates safety, min. wage, closed shop, healthcare/dental plans for workers)
-Wishes to keep current liberalized gun laws
-Wishes to keep immigration levels at 120,000 per year
-Wishes to keep the current Peace Protection Laws regulating the National Police (as of now, they can use summary execution versus serial killers, drug dealers, and terrorists, and they have broad powers in other fields)
-Wishes to keep current taxes on Atheists, bans on Mormons and Christian Scientists, and maintain the Interdenominational Conclave (the religious advisory body to the UX Government. They also can issue joint statements and run all seminaries).
New Homeland Party
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/Senor_Nb3/_leona.jpg
Candidate: Yuri Iwata
Description:
A coalition of the traditional leftist faction, the Green Worker's Party, and the Leftist Federalists (the original party of Gordon Lew that was shattered by his policies), they are determined to bring about reform to Upper Xen. They are commanded by 22-year old Yuri Iwata, a comic-book artist turned Socialist agitator. Since its adoption of National Communism, the party is more determined than ever to unseat Gordon Lew, and it draws strength from both sufferign farmers and urban intellectuals, as well as dissdents of all stripes in Wuhan, Manchuria, and in the Kansai region.
Agenda:
-Wants to abolish the National Bank of Upper Xen, replace it with a series of treasuries
-Wishes to increase restrictions on firearms
-Wishes to keep the military and civilian educational system seperate
-Wishes to abolish taxes on athiests and the Interdenominational Conclave
-Wishes to make the National Health Corporation totally government owned
-Wishes to make college free for all
-Wishes to recall troops from Mexico, and Asia Minor
-Wishes to restructure military for a defensive role, and create a rapid reaction force for foreign wars using the Marines and the Air Force
-Wishes to abolish the CIA and National Police, replacing them with new Domestic and Foreign Security Directorates
-Wishes to fight trusts at home and increase government regulation of the economy, as well as nationalize National Armscorp totally
-Wishes to expand the welfare system to subsidize housing and basic resources, as well as provide for everybody
-Wishes to increase civil rights for Xenizens (gay marriage, privacy rights, downloadign music for free, etc.)
-Wishes to enact taxes on corporations and businesses with more than 16 employees and a USD$10,000,000 profti per year
-Wishes to reform Peace Protection Laws to make them more favorable to rights of privacy, and other civil rights
-Wishes to focus on rehabilitaion and prisoners' rights, and abolish the chain gang, as well as punish those criminals accusd of embezzlement and fraud with time in regular prisons
-Wishes to limit use of death penalty and revoke National Police powers of "summary execution"
-Wishes to enact harsher environmental regulations, and punish those companies who violate them with fines and jail time
-Wishes to allow for abolition of the Electoral College, and allow for direct election of the President and members of Congress for a single six-year term.
-Wishes to allow more Immigrants into the country (260,000 opposed to 120,000), and allow a "touch-base" immigration policy (any refugee that sets foot on Xenizen soil is automatically a citizen)
"So...with that, you stay classy, Upper Xen."