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Attempting to Fulfill the Plan: GDI Edition

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[X] Broad Support
[X] Moderately Pro Worker
[X] Intensive Enforcement

An update is always a good way to start the day! And yeah I think the issue of us not upgrading enough of the Navy and Army is still a thing we've hyper focused on a lot of other issues and need to spend a lot more in the military if we want to have a real edge over NOD come the next war.
 
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Regardless of the choices picked, Dr. Granger is tipping his hand in terms of politics. Currently, Dr. James Granger is one of the most enigmatic figures in GDI. Everybody knows Dr. Granger is a supporter of GDI investment in the Yellow Zones and the Forgotten but people do not know if it is out of a genuine desire to help the Yellow Zoners and the Forgotten or if Dr. Granger simply views it as a pragmatic way to make tiberium harvesting easier. Everybody knows that Dr. Granger has been unwilling to do private enterprise grants but people do not know if he is coming from a left wing or technocratic motivation in not doing the grants or if Dr. Granger is simply being territorial about his department's quarterly budget. Dr. Granger has been something of a political Rorschach test in GDI politics. People have viewed him as a dirty commie, or as a soulless out of touch technocrat, or a man of the little people.

Now, we are going to make Dr. Granger's politics more clear as this is a very political question here and some people will be angry with our answer.
 
Ithillid said:
Welfare Department
Right now, the Treasury has done quite a bit to reduce the demand on medical services. This has allowed many doctors to go on break somewhat more regularly, and has made the Treasury quite popular with the branch. Similarly, the cuts to the labor force have made payments and other welfare supplies somewhat easier, although still stretching the resources of the department.
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Something something +Health turning into medical research. We should do more +Health stuff.
Chaeronea said:
- Strongly Pro Worker could also be seen as anti-employer bias, which could piss off the Free Market Party. As long as workers' rights, specifically the right to unionise, is protected I'm happy.
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Is the Free Market Party a party of 100% hardcore capitalists? Or are at least some of them just interested in promoting free markets in general? I'd be surprised if in 2053 there aren't supporters of cooperatives and collective ownership somewhere in politics, even if they aren't the mainstream view.

Plus I've got no regret if we end up splitting the Free Market Party over promoting a Free Market, but not the one they'd prefer. (Thou that might be too optimistic.)
 
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Derpmind said:
Is the Free Market Party a party of 100% hardcore capitalists? Or are at least some of them just interested in promoting free markets in general? I'd be surprised if in 2053 there aren't supporters of cooperatives and collective ownership somewhere in politics, even if they aren't the mainstream view.
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Free Market party ranges typically from new dealists to relatively hardcore ancaps. You probably won't create a split, just mean that one side of the party has gains that they can point to and the other can't.
 
[X] Broad Support
[X] Moderately Pro Worker
[X] Intensive Enforcement
 
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I think a large part of at least the more moderate Free Marketers just want their pre-war luxuries back rather than any hardcore ideological dedication to maximum overcapitalism. I don't think they're going to suddenly develop a deep hatred for us just because we made it so that you have to pay your waitstaff a union wage, at least the restaurants and hairdressers and strip clubs are back in some form.

Also I think it's important to remember that this is limited privatization of the very very end of the production and distribution chain. Like this vote only decides if the McDonald's is run by a union or not, the raw potatoes that come in the back are all still going to be grown in state farms and transported on state infrastructure, all overseen by state bureaucrats.
 
Crazycryodude said:
I think a large part of at least the more moderate Free Marketers just want their pre-war luxuries back rather than any hardcore ideological dedication to maximum overcapitalism. I don't think they're going to suddenly develop a deep hatred for us just because we made it so that you have to pay your waitstaff a union wage, at least the restaurants and hairdressers and strip clubs are back in some form.
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There is also a disconnect between the voters and the politicians. Look at it something like the late 20th century and early 21st century Republican Party, where the voters and politicians were looking for different things. The voters are mostly in it for getting their quality of life back, and they will vote for most options that will get them that quality of life. The politicians want someone who can hand them in particular fat stacks of cash.
 
[X] Broad Support
[X] Moderately Pro Worker
[X] Moderately Pro Owner
[X] Moderate Enforcement

Suffice to say that I don't share the incredibly idealistic view of workers that some other people around here possess.
 
[X] Broad Support
[X] Moderately Pro Worker
[X] Intensive Enforcement

Ithillid said:
As a case, this one is notably unusual. Instead of calling the accusations a NOD plant, or having been a case of Brotherhood misinformation. While far from a foolproof method for avoiding punishment, the Brotherhood does tend to muddy the waters enough for some of the otherwise guilty to sow enough doubt to escape punishment. However, in this case, while NOD is involved, it seems to be a clear cut case of picking their person to survive the Philadelphia attack, rather than a matter of misplaced guilt.
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This paragraph reads weird, especially the second sentence. It may be missing a clause?

Other things noted from the update: Another unit of population filtered into the Refugee Camps, but next turn the Fortress Towns should drop them down to 2, if the growth rate holds steady.
 
I don't want to be strongly pro-worker because of class war or some ideals about the moral character of the simple working man. I'm for it because the more money that gets injected at the bottom of the pyramid the faster the numbers go up, if we're gonna privatize some things we should at least keep the money velocity as high as possible and workers spend a lot more proportionally than owners.
 
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