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Greetings, Senator Willis! It's always wonderful to meet someone as... flamboyant and individualistic as yourself!

((Gloa, it's time Daniel, Jr. to come in... too many progressives, not enough laissez-faire...))

 

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((To be completely fair, Daniel was sitting directly inbetween interventionism and laissez-faire Was it ever clarified which that translated to in-game? I don't recall.))

 

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Riccardo93 said:

Greetings, Senator Willis! It's always wonderful to meet someone as... flamboyant and individualistic as yourself!

((Gloa, it's time Daniel, Jr. to come in... too many progressives, not enough laissez-faire...))

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Many thanks, Richard. My parakeet and soon-to-be vice president is pleased as well.

 

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((I have no idea; I think he leaned towards laissez faire, since many former Republicans supported him (I voted for him over Davis!) so I'm inclined to say he favoured a free market with limited government involvement. Of course, Gloa can clear this all up).

 

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((Could we get a screencap of current Europe? My madman wants to gain a foothold, so he needs to know about what countries are where.))

 

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Welcome, Willis.

 

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Riccardo93 said:

((I have no idea; I think he leaned towards laissez faire, since many former Republicans supported him (I voted for him over Davis!) so I'm inclined to say he favoured a free market with limited government involvement. Of course, Gloa can clear this all up).

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((Assuming you mean Daniel Vallejo, it probably depended more on his cabinet at the time. Personally he favored a free market with limited intervention - just about exactly half way between the two camps. Politically, though, he didn't really have any grand economic policy. He focused more on diplomatic, military, and other non-economic issues. That's why nobody really knows which side he falls into in practice. No Daniel Jr. here, but I think you'll like...))

William Gallatin, Representative from Pennsylvania
Born: 1894
Political Affiliation: Republican

Grandson of Arthur Gallatin (Secretary of the Treasury in the Callahan administration, himself the son of former ambassador William Gallatin who was the son of former Vice President Daniel Gallatin), William was an infantryman in the Siberian Front of the Great War. Coming back, minus a leg - an infirmity he tried his best to hide with clever prosthetics - William established himself as a nonfiction writer prior to running for Congress. His interest in politics began with his research for a book on the history of American politics, which lead him to meet with many politicians and former politicians. He was wary of the idealistic Progressive plans, although content with most of the former legislation.

Major issues: Pacifism, Public Education, Free Trade, Laissez Faire

 

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((Me Gusta Gloa... muy me gusta))

Ah, another military man! And a veteran of the Siberan Front, no less! Congressman Gallatin, welcome!

((Lots of military men, all born in the 1890's...))

 

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((Missed the election as I had no internet but it appears to have come to a favourable conclusion anyway.))

 

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(( Every dog has its day. And I hope mine is coming soon. Too much failed elections ))

 

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Ryan (2nd Term): The Phoenix​

The election of 1933 proved to be the most hotly contested since the “Anti-Trust Election” of 1897, with the winning candidate receiving the lowest percentage of votes since 1893. The largest contributing factor in this shift from the safe victories of candidates in the last three decades was the campaign of Leonard Jenkins, whose hardline socialism forced Ryan to fight on two fronts as he desperately grasped at the extreme left fleeing to Jenkins, while still trying to hold the center against a Republican candidate bolstered in his support by the tough times experienced during Ryan’s first term. In the end, it was cooperation between Ryan and his running mate that allowed the ticket to hold enough of the center to win by having Fitz Harrison’s track record to appeal to the right-of-center, and Ryan’s to the left-of-center.

1. Results for the Election of 1933.​

With the Progressive sweep of congress thanks to the extreme left largely still voting Progressive there, Ryan had a much freer hand than the election for the executive seemed to present. With the majority in the House and Senate being with the Progressives or friendly Independents, Ryan was more than confident that the package of initiatives to help the economy that he and Fitz had hammered out on the campaign trail, christened “The New Deal”, would pass through both chambers in short order. In the next hundred days, he would be proven correct as the New Deal thundered through congress in a mad legislative flurry.
The first act of the “Hundred Days” was the Federal Banking Act of 1933, which placed the entire nation’s banks on an indefinite bank holiday, which they would not be allowed to end until the bank had been deemed safe from insolvency by the Banking Regulatory Committee [1], the expansion of which was put on the fast track by an appropriation of $3 million included in the FBA. The FBA also created a Federal Deposit Insurance upon the structure of the long ignored Deposit Insurance Act of 1894 [2].
Coupled with the agreement that the Federal Reserve Board would allow Secretary McCahill to participate in meetings for the foreseeable future as a consultant, the FBA33 put a halt to the financial crisis that had ripped through the banking system after the Crash of 1929. After three years of failures and minor successes, the FBA33 had built a new banking system on the rubble of the old one; one that would be consolidated in the next few years by numerous buyouts and the passage of the FBA35.

2. Vice-President Harrison prepares to send the FBA33 to the President.​

With the passage of FBA33, the floodgates were open for the rest of the New Deal. First came extension and expansion of the National Public Works Act to the tune of a new appropriation of another $100 billion dollars, which by 1932 was the equivalent of 67% of US GDP. It was this appropriation that ended up consuming what was left of the budget surplus gathered since the Civil War. To allow for financial flexibility, President Ryan removed the United States Dollar from the Gold Standard the day he signed the appropriation. Two days later, for the first time in a century, the Treasury began selling US gold reserves instead of expanding them to offset at least the lost revenue from the 2% tax cut on all brackets. These tax cuts, known as the Ryan Cuts, were the first of a series of tax cuts that would be extended to individuals and companies by the National Industrial Recovery Administration.
The purpose of NIRA was to negotiate with different industries to create subsidies and tax policies for each. Headed by Carter Ennis, during Ryan’s second term the NIRA conducted negotiations with and created NIRA Support for thirty different industries, which covered nearly every type of product made in the country. The estimated cost for federal and state governments in lost revenue and subsidies during that period was nearly $31 billion.

3. Carter Ennis, c. 1934.​

When the expenses of the National Agricultural Recovery Administration, which did the job of the NIRA in farming, are accounted for, US government deficit in 1933 reached $53 billion. Luckily for Harrison, who, with the exception of the second NPWA appropriation, had come up with the initiatives that made the dent in the budget, and Ryan, who had run his campaign on them, the New Deal seemed to work. In the eight months between the end of the Hundred Days and December 31st 1933, unemployment fell from 26.2% to 18.7% [3].
From then on however, recovery became more sluggish, as 1934 saw a smaller, bust still significant decrease in unemployment to 15.6%. The general growth of the economy however, picked up the pace as companies first returned pre-Crash wages to placate unions, and then invested massively in new equipment that they could now afford with NIRA Support. In 1934, the economy grew almost 11%, to $177.6 billion. Despite the upturn though, times were still tough, and crime took advantage of this.
Among expansionist gang wars and the grab for power of a well-organized Sicilian Mob in the underworld, a select few bank robbers became more than simple criminals. Men like John Dillinger, “Pretty-Boy” Floyd and “Baby-Face” Nelson managed to transcend the role of petty criminal, to becoming national symbols of the anger against the economic system that had brought such misery with the crash caused by its own “corruption and moral bankruptcy.” Yet equally powerful symbols became the lawmen who were authorized by President Ryan to apprehend these men “by any means necessary” in July 1934 [4].
Foremost among these men was Eliot Ness, the man who brought down both Dillinger and Nelson in the space of two months in the summer of 1935. He caught the national attention as an icon of the “refusal to give in to the tough times, and instead work harder to make America better.” In 1938, Ness would be appointed Director of the FBI, after successfully killing or capturing more than 200 criminals since 1934.

4. Eliot Ness, three days after the apprehension of John Dillinger.​

Ness and other crime fighters however, could not plug the hole in the leaking ship of American confidence. In January 1928, TIME-magazine’s poll measuring belief in the country’s future had reached an all-time high of 92% of responders being positive about the future. In June 1932, TIME had recorded its all-time low of 38% being positive. After the Hundred Days that number had risen to 61%, but had then dropped to 44% by mid-1934, and hovered in the mid-40s for the next two years despite unemployment dropping by January 1936 to 13.4% [5]. Something more than an economic recovery that never seemed to extend to the street view was needed to restore American confidence. That something turned out to be the 1936 Los Angeles Olympics.
The City of Los Angeles had applied for the right to host the games in 1925, and was thus obligated to hold the costly event in the middle of the Great Depression [6]. In late July, the best athletes in the world would gather near Hollywood to compete for two weeks’ worth of events. To compound the massiveness of the event, both the Soviet Union and the Chinese Republic were participating for the first time ever [7], along with Germany, which was participating for the first time since 1912. The number of events too, was a new high of 19 different sports.

5. Vice-President Harrison at the 1936 Olympic Opening Ceremony.​

As it turned out, despite strong showings by Germany, the USSR, Britain and France, the United States proved supreme. In swimming and gymnastics, American athletes captured every gold medal. In diving, the United States won every medal. The Americans even managed to inch into a bronze and silver medal in soccer and handball respectively. In shooting, Thomas Remnick took home the gold medal in all three categories, having learned to shoot while dispatching rabbits with his father’s old Great War-era army surplus rifle.
Remnick was undoubtedly an inspiration, along with James J. Braddock, a longshoreman from New York, who came out on top against the undefeated German Herbert Runge in the boxing final. The great record-breaker of the Games though, was Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals in running, each with a world record. Three weeks after the Olympics ended, he, along with Braddock, would be invited to the White House, where they were greeted by the Vice-President, who then led them to a meeting with President Ryan on the White House lawn.

6. Jesse Owens sprinting at Los Angeles 1936.​

When the Games were opened on July 27th 1936, TIME’s “Belief In the Future Poll” stood at 43%. Three weeks later, four days after the ending ceremony, the poll stood at 87%, over double that of the pre-Games polls. The all-time high of January 1928 would never be surpassed, and not be reached again until more than a decade later, but for even longer the poll did not record numbers lower than 70% after the 1936 Olympics. Thus, despite the frustratingly slow decline in unemployment, and the economy still being far from pre-Depression prosperity, American confidence had been restored.

[1] – Banks that were within a certain distance from safety upon first review would be loaned the required money by the Federal Reserve.

[2] – The Federal Deposit Insurance was made by the Federal Banking Act of 1935 the sole responsibility of the BRC, which was renamed the Federal Banking Commission in the same legislation. This was a part of the wider restructuring of the new system for efficiency.

[3] – In that same period, US GDP, which had fallen to approximately $150 billion since 1929, increased by 7% to about $160 billion.

[4] – The “Any Means Authorization” was given to the FBI the day after a bank robbery by Dillinger resulted in 12 deaths, including the lives of three policemen, in an Illinois branch of Bank of the Americas.

[5] – In that same period US GDP climbed back to $257 billion.

[6] – This proved to be a blessing in disguise as Ryan and Fitz decided in a one-on-one meeting in June 1935 that the federal government would pay for the games, so all tourism and money brought to LA by the games would in fact be purely profit for the city.

[7] – The Chinese Republic was, at the time, the most stable of the numerous states that claimed sovereignty over China, having rooted out the various warlords, monarchs and workers’ communes east of Chongqing in the Yangtze River Valley, and established marginally effective government in coastal areas from Fuzhou to about a hundred miles south of Beijing. The Republic sent approximately 100 athletes to Los Angeles.

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Sorry it took so long. Primary time.

Parties are: Republican, Progressive, Independent.

 

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OOC: Awesome update.

 

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Isn't it a shame, the government not knowing any bounds or limitations on its authoity?

 

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I hereby announce that I will be running for the Progressive nomination.

While President Ryan is a step in the right direction, we still haven't gone far enough! There needs to be a massive restructuring of the economy in order to save capitalism and stave off the eternal red menace!

 

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Richard Milton-Spencer (born 1892)
Richard, a former soldier of the Great War, was many years ago a grassroots Republican supporter and a businessman, who had a solid belief in laissez faire economics and free trade, however after the crash and the loss of his business and while he was practical homelessness he decided that capitalism was incapable of working to the ideals he and other laissez fair supporters thought they were, however he considered the communists unrealistic demagogues. Thus he became enthralled with finding a system that combined the benefits of both without the bureaucracy and selfishness and other negatives of either. He found himself intrigued by the old concept National Vinogradism with its class equality and merit based control rather than class elimination, and new ideas coming from Europe.

He would later be known as one of America's first fascists.

I shall run for the Independent nomination ((Not that I expect to win, indeed I think there's only one other who'd vote for this character.))

 

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I, Sentator Alec Willis, proudly runs for presidency, as a progressive.

 

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I, Philip JJ McCahill, shall be standing for the progressive nomination.

I propose to maintain industrial support, so that the recovery may continue unhindered, while increasing the regulation on key industries, to ensure another crisis of this magnitude does not occur, without unduly preventing the operation of the free market. In this regard I will be using all the knowledge and experience I have built up in 8 years at the Treasury, that I hope puts me in good stead to enact sound economic policy. I also propose to increase welfare payments and reform the ways important services like education and healthcare are provided. For example, I would create a national inspectorate for state schools ((public schools if you're American)) to ensure they are up to standard and create a national curriculum that will prevent individual states from brainwashing those in their care.

I also wish to place the following constitutional amendment before this house, in light of the fact that there are thousands of our citizens who receive no right to vote when they live in a democracy:

The District of Columbia Representation Amendment
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The people of the District of Columbia shall receive electoral college votes towards the selection of the President and Vice-President equal to the smallest state (ie 3).
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The people of the District of Columbia shall be allowed to elect 2 senators and 1 representative, who shall be allowed to participate in debates but shall receive no votes.

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((NB This is what DC has currently on a national level, and was enacted in real life through the 23rd Amendment.))

 

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Greetings, Mr. Spencer. Though we may end up running against each other in the end, your ideas are certainly intriguing.

 

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Progressives, I say to you. What does this country need? A refined economy? Diplomatic ties? NO! What we need is footholds! Foothold in wherever we can! I and my parakeet Elrond Willis promise you that by the endnof our term we will have a military force riviled by none, and at least ONE stake in Europe, which will be able to vote for me.
President Ryan has left space for improve the economy. I promise to stimulate the economy by building armies and bases! Ryan has left us a legacy to go through with. And Willis is the Way!

-senator Willis in a speech at New York City.

 

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I denounce the militaristic policies of senator Willis. Yes, invest in industry, but don't start an arms race that will increase tensions in the same way we saw in the run up to the Great War. Diplomatic ties and a thriving economy are what will allow our country to maintain its rightful place on top of the world, not military force. I urge the rest of the Progressive movement, and America as a whole, to denounce the senator's dangerous policies and ensure that America has a future free of unnecessary wars.