The Americans Hate Us - Can You Really Blame Them?
The Blowerd Act is a disaster for Eutopia. It not only prevents our businesses, our hardworking employers, from trading their goods with the American people, allowing our own population to prosper with its access to the truly global American market, but it also fatally condemns our military - that glorious defender of the Eutopian peoples' liberties and traditions - from re-equipping and purchasing the vehicles that would allow it to better perform its function. In short, if this act is not vetoed by the President, our nation will be reduced to the status of an economic basket-case with a military barely able to keep control of its peoples' own urges let alone defend our borders against enemy incursions.
But the response given by the ruling UMP party - that apparent haunt of pragmatists and powerhouse of independent thought - has been pathetic to say the least! What has the President done? He has asked the Eutopian people to ring America en-masse, no doubt reversing the charges, and beg them to call up their President! I had thought that our President had a rather firmer grasp of world diplomacy than to think that such a little stunt would do much in his favour. How professional will the President consider our Ministry for Foreign Affairs when it conducts its business through the telephoned masses?
The real problem, however, is far, far deeper than just international relations. The problem does not lie with the Americans, the problem lies with us! For too long, the fact that we require a major transformation of our economy from a social democratic, staggering monolith into a truly liberal, vibrant and dynamic powerhouse has been ignored. President de Fourgeres was greeted with so much expectation on my part. But what has he done in regards to the economy? Nothing. A bit of tweaking here and there leaves his vast majority in the General Assembly wasted. The only true act of liberalisation in our economy was undertaken by myself - in the form of the privatisation of the Airport Casinos. Indeed, while our economy has continued to stagnate and labour under the burdens of the Socialist Governments of the past, the Americans have become less and less attracted to the Eutopian peoples' true dynamic and competitive spirit.
Of course secondly, there is also the matter of the late Per Truman and nuclear material debacle. It is shameful that the President did not notice Truman's actions sooner and put a stop to this wayward Minister's little dealings. At the beginning of his term, de Fourgeres announced that he wished to keep his ministers active. He seems to have resoundingly failed in this matter. But it is beyond belief that he would not have sufficient information of his Minister's actions to ensure that such underhand dealings as went on between Truman and whoever he was dealing with didn't happen! Either we have a lying, deceitful President who knew exactly what was going on, or we have an incompetent President, too busy hobknobbing with the great and the good, thinking that was the best way to mend relations with the US, to see what was going on beneath his very nose!
But finally we come to the problem that has plagued Presidential Eutopia since our monarchy was illegitimately wrenched from us. Stability and order. It is true that our island, our people, were able to stick together for centuries as a unified state under the monarchy and a negligible number of years after the dissolution we are divided once more. It is true again that a great many people in our country find it difficult to unite under our current Head of State - a pragmatic politician, without principles. What Eutopia truly needs above all is that unity of spirit that served us so well for the Royal centuries. That unity that kept us together and strengthened our will to succeed. Only by re-instating the constitutional monarchy, with the traditions and fairness that it stands for, can democracy truly be affirmed in Eutopia.
