State of the Union: January 1937
My fellow Americans,
First, I want to thank you for your confidence in my leadership, electing me to my second term as President of these United States. I will do my best to ensure I do not fail that trust.
These are grave and dangerous times. War has broken out in Europe, although not where anybody expected: in Spain, there is civil war.
Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union have all sent advisors and equipment to their particular favorite side. We have had demonstrations for both war and peace in our country these past six months; I have elected to stay neutral, although that could certainly change if you, Senators, would like the US to intervene in some way.
We are not free of problems at home, either. The Commander of the Naval Base in San Diego, a close personal friend, informed me his men are simply not getting enough to eat. I ordered my Cabinet to consider this problem, and we found the state of our nation's infrastructure in an alarming state of disrepair near the Canadian border.
I took the opportunity to direct our nation's scientists to invent new ways of transporting goods from coast to coast, offering a $1000 prize to the scientist or scientists who can address the need. I hope the Senators will also find a way to work additional infrastructure into their proposed budgets for the 1937 Fiscal Year. I found two accounting errors in our industrial expenditures; an additional naval bomber was found and some misfiled paperwork resulted in an infantry brigade being attached to the wrong corps. I have issued orders to send this brigade to New Orleans by fast rail. The plans to form an additional infantry brigade have been cancelled. We have also begun issuing some of the fine new weapons designed by our scientists to our troops; this progress is currently slow, and you may wish to consider increasing this as well in the new budget.
There is one final consideration. All of my cabinet ministers shall remain the same at present; I am, however, requesting confirmation for Vincent Astor as the new Head of Intelligence. He will give us coverage on the armies and navies of the world, instead of just the armies as Mr. Friedman did.
We must design a new budget for 1937. We must also determine where our loyalties lie, if anywhere, with Europe. Do we stand with our brothers in the United Kingdom? Do we join the Axis? Accept the Communist philosophies of the Soviet Union? That choice, like so many, is up to you.
Thank you, and good night.
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We need new budgets! We have 153 IC to distribute (as before) and 34 leadership. Including resource allocations, you can order any existing construction or research scrapped or make specific recommendations as to what else we do with our IC or leadership.
Here's our IC distribution now and build queue.
Leadership and tech:
Spain after the beginning of the Civil War and January 1, 1937:
Other matters to consider:
1) What do we do about Spain? Anything is on the table except for declaring war (I also don't think we can send expeditionary forces without being in a faction or allied to one of the countries.)
2) Foreign policy direction.
3) Confirmation of Astor.
Ministers, when we get around to new orders, go ahead and build in a few extra techs, just in case something is finished earlier than expected, or you're stuck with my best judgment
Let's have budget and Spain bill proposals by
Monday at 10 PM CST (-6 GMT). Everybody can also vote on Foreign policy and confirming or kicking out Astor, without bills. Those votes will close at the same time.
Save game for 1937:
click here.
