SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE: Gov't Oversight and Reform (Recommendations)

[Badger]

Gentlemen:

Unemployment and slackening GDP were looming as major issues during my sojourn as GM. I chose not to spoonfeed answers to the government or Atlasia at large. As in real life, the chorus of competing interests and ideolouges across the spectrum each proscribe their own remedy is anything but unified, even in identifying the underlying problems (let alone worthwhile solutions).

I DID believe their was an underlying fundamental problem with the Atlasian economy, quite similar, actually, to the real world economy: Mass consumer purchasing power and confidence were both weak and dropping fast. The solution I I felt was to put as much money and job secuity into as many hands as possible as quickly has possible. Investment income (of which therels never been any shortage) and business confidence woud follow. IIRC that wasn't agressively followed by the government in my tenure.

I did attempt to hint, if one looked for the forest for the trees (please don't ask vfor specifics; I don't remember) that this was t he best choice among various competing proposals. I truly believe t his is the way to make the game fun: give the government options that all sound viable to some degree (ifonly to the wingnuts sometimes) but don't tell t them which one(s) are correct.

I'll also note that there was an ongoing financial crisis where the Chinese threatened to cut off/sharply reduce financing our debt. Though it never came to light as I planned on using the government's decision to trigger long range consequences which I never enacted before moving on, the government frankly botched the crisis quite. Badly.  More on that later.