The King speaks again!
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sparkindarknessYes, Ascensora again calls for His Majesty's attention
http://www.nationstates.net/ascensora
His Most Excellent Majesty King Sparky the Eternally Amused of Ascensora sighed when he felt 3 giant egos enter his room. It was only after a moment of concentration that the possessors of these over inflated egos came into focus. All 3 had come to discuss (or, it seems, instruct him on) the hard times that Ascensora’s automobile industry was suffering due to hard competition from abroad
He sat back and listened while pensively musing whether the technicians had finished modifying his office. He blinked when he realised they had stopped talking and rose majestically to his feet, absently pushing a button on his desk. Since none of them plummeted to an unknown fate he had to assume the trapdoors had not been installed yet.
The proposal to scrap minimum wage he discounted straight away - he had never quite understood while it was supposed to be good for a country or an economy that the stock market showed gains while people starved, which also made him disinclined to allow the market “to do its thing.” His Most Excellent Majesty had never quite understood who this market was supposed to be and why it had more authority and more fanatical followers than most religions. Grimly, he considered the competition in the car industry. He could almost see the point in allowing foreign car companies compete fairly and in an unfettered manner - if they did actually compete on the same level. But that simply wasn’t the case - these cars were produced so cheaply because their manufactories had employees that endured conditions he would never tolerate within Ascensora. If they wished to compete equally with Ascensora then let them come with factories that pay a living wage, pensions, health care, a reasonable work week, holidays and decent health and safety standards and in a country that provides worker’s protections. Then he would be willing to compete.
Until that day, he would not have Ascensora engage in a “market” competition to see which nation could lower living standards the fastest. The Union representative was so ecstatic as the King signed the law imposing tariffs on imports (adjusted according to the working conditions and human rights standards of the importing nation/factory) that he loosened his grip on the choke hold he had the market analyst in. At least that meant they both had a reason to be happy.
His Majesty managed to leave the growing brawl in his office to run headlong into a second brawl beginning ion the anti-room. It seems some protestors had released a factory full of chickens into the environment. His Majesty groaned, becoming slightly less amused as various proposals were presented to him.
Banning meat eating was frankly out of the question and more than a little silly, but even it may be less ridiculous than an idea of a “cruelty” tax on meat production that involved animal cruelty. Animal cruelty was unacceptable, to the King, not something to “discourage” it was something to stop. Which he resolved to do as he signed into law a bill banning cruel agricultural practices.
Now, if only he could find someone to clear the chickens out of his garden.
http://www.nationstates.net/ascensora
His Most Excellent Majesty King Sparky the Eternally Amused of Ascensora sighed when he felt 3 giant egos enter his room. It was only after a moment of concentration that the possessors of these over inflated egos came into focus. All 3 had come to discuss (or, it seems, instruct him on) the hard times that Ascensora’s automobile industry was suffering due to hard competition from abroad
He sat back and listened while pensively musing whether the technicians had finished modifying his office. He blinked when he realised they had stopped talking and rose majestically to his feet, absently pushing a button on his desk. Since none of them plummeted to an unknown fate he had to assume the trapdoors had not been installed yet.
The proposal to scrap minimum wage he discounted straight away - he had never quite understood while it was supposed to be good for a country or an economy that the stock market showed gains while people starved, which also made him disinclined to allow the market “to do its thing.” His Most Excellent Majesty had never quite understood who this market was supposed to be and why it had more authority and more fanatical followers than most religions. Grimly, he considered the competition in the car industry. He could almost see the point in allowing foreign car companies compete fairly and in an unfettered manner - if they did actually compete on the same level. But that simply wasn’t the case - these cars were produced so cheaply because their manufactories had employees that endured conditions he would never tolerate within Ascensora. If they wished to compete equally with Ascensora then let them come with factories that pay a living wage, pensions, health care, a reasonable work week, holidays and decent health and safety standards and in a country that provides worker’s protections. Then he would be willing to compete.
Until that day, he would not have Ascensora engage in a “market” competition to see which nation could lower living standards the fastest. The Union representative was so ecstatic as the King signed the law imposing tariffs on imports (adjusted according to the working conditions and human rights standards of the importing nation/factory) that he loosened his grip on the choke hold he had the market analyst in. At least that meant they both had a reason to be happy.
His Majesty managed to leave the growing brawl in his office to run headlong into a second brawl beginning ion the anti-room. It seems some protestors had released a factory full of chickens into the environment. His Majesty groaned, becoming slightly less amused as various proposals were presented to him.
Banning meat eating was frankly out of the question and more than a little silly, but even it may be less ridiculous than an idea of a “cruelty” tax on meat production that involved animal cruelty. Animal cruelty was unacceptable, to the King, not something to “discourage” it was something to stop. Which he resolved to do as he signed into law a bill banning cruel agricultural practices.
Now, if only he could find someone to clear the chickens out of his garden.
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Date: 2007-04-13 01:05 pm (UTC)If Endohyem ever gets an issua like this, meat is going out.
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