at the armored Oval Office, you miss a few things, like the nation collapsing. Things are getting bad.
Eight states have already seceded this year. Guess when public funding runs out, there's just not much to tie you to the country any more. Can we really blame them? China finally decided to collect on our debts, and no one felt like footing the bill. The entire Midwest might as well have seceded already. Texas and Oklahoma went and formed their own republic and half the nation flocked to it. The border of Mexico has more holes than Swiss cheese, and anyone can come and go as they want. Anyone.
This isn't even touching the fact that our enemies, who are still unknown to us, were able to EMP cities on the West Coast five years ago. We haven't done anything to restore these cities, they're still in the dark. We don't even know where they got that kind of technology, though I can hazard a few guesses. How do you think that makes us look?
We're only scratching the surface here. This country is falling apart, and I think trying to sell this country anything but that truth would reflect an out-of-touch government, indifferent to the woes of the people who elected them. If you decide to spin this address in an untruthful way, I will tender my resignation.
Re: State of the Union Address
From: Gary Vanderman
To: John Quantis
I really do expect better of you, John. You've been a friend to me for a long time, but it seems like the only thing you've done since I took office has been to bite at my ankles for every move I make. I'm well aware of what is going on with the country, there's a new stack of papers on my desk every morning of incident reports, funding requests...you name it, I've seen it. You're supposed to be helping me handle all of this.
Re: Re: State of the Union Address
From: John Quantis
To: Gary Vanderman
Are you kidding me? Seriously, tell me you're joking. What did you even hire me for? Did you just want a buddy to shoot pool with you in the lounge after I agree with your every insane idea?
Firstly, you didn't "take" office. You were elected, after you assured a nation that they would finally see a rebuilding. Do you realize how much people are depending on you? Or did the lobbyists really buy you this Presidency?
You wouldn't become aware of what was happening with this nation by simply reading about it. I get copies of your itinerary too. Funny how you manage to make it to every sports final, every celebrity funeral, and God forbid you miss a weekend at the links, but when was the last time you saw San Francisco, with the windows of grocery stores smashed and the shelves looted by citizens with candles? Do you know how it feels to stand at the border of Louisiana and Texas, and to observe the sea of abandoned cars? Has your motorcade ever been passed by a flatbed truck jammed full of assault rifles and RPG's? I've seen all of this, Gary.
I would've stood by your side if you decided to cut every government program in an effort to pay our debts. I would have followed your lead if you proposed a bill to get rid of all government salaries until we no longer had a deficit. If you had gotten on your knees and begged China to release us from our obligations, I would have been on my knees right next to you. But proposing to start a war for the funding? Hiring privateers to rob banks, making deals with drug cartels? That is called corruption, and I will take no part in it.
I will leave my pride and my salary long behind before I leave my humanity to die.
Location: Lambda, South Pacific Ocean
Date: January 10th, 2149
It was a long operation, and there was little to do but think. Still, thinking seemed to be more...entertaining than it was before. Charley began to understand his recent episodes a little better, now that his brain was unconscious. The prosthetics' CPU attempted to communicate with the nervous system, but received little response. In turn,
Eight states have already seceded this year. Guess when public funding runs out, there's just not much to tie you to the country any more. Can we really blame them? China finally decided to collect on our debts, and no one felt like footing the bill. The entire Midwest might as well have seceded already. Texas and Oklahoma went and formed their own republic and half the nation flocked to it. The border of Mexico has more holes than Swiss cheese, and anyone can come and go as they want. Anyone.
This isn't even touching the fact that our enemies, who are still unknown to us, were able to EMP cities on the West Coast five years ago. We haven't done anything to restore these cities, they're still in the dark. We don't even know where they got that kind of technology, though I can hazard a few guesses. How do you think that makes us look?
We're only scratching the surface here. This country is falling apart, and I think trying to sell this country anything but that truth would reflect an out-of-touch government, indifferent to the woes of the people who elected them. If you decide to spin this address in an untruthful way, I will tender my resignation.
Re: State of the Union Address
From: Gary Vanderman
To: John Quantis
I really do expect better of you, John. You've been a friend to me for a long time, but it seems like the only thing you've done since I took office has been to bite at my ankles for every move I make. I'm well aware of what is going on with the country, there's a new stack of papers on my desk every morning of incident reports, funding requests...you name it, I've seen it. You're supposed to be helping me handle all of this.
Re: Re: State of the Union Address
From: John Quantis
To: Gary Vanderman
Are you kidding me? Seriously, tell me you're joking. What did you even hire me for? Did you just want a buddy to shoot pool with you in the lounge after I agree with your every insane idea?
Firstly, you didn't "take" office. You were elected, after you assured a nation that they would finally see a rebuilding. Do you realize how much people are depending on you? Or did the lobbyists really buy you this Presidency?
You wouldn't become aware of what was happening with this nation by simply reading about it. I get copies of your itinerary too. Funny how you manage to make it to every sports final, every celebrity funeral, and God forbid you miss a weekend at the links, but when was the last time you saw San Francisco, with the windows of grocery stores smashed and the shelves looted by citizens with candles? Do you know how it feels to stand at the border of Louisiana and Texas, and to observe the sea of abandoned cars? Has your motorcade ever been passed by a flatbed truck jammed full of assault rifles and RPG's? I've seen all of this, Gary.
I would've stood by your side if you decided to cut every government program in an effort to pay our debts. I would have followed your lead if you proposed a bill to get rid of all government salaries until we no longer had a deficit. If you had gotten on your knees and begged China to release us from our obligations, I would have been on my knees right next to you. But proposing to start a war for the funding? Hiring privateers to rob banks, making deals with drug cartels? That is called corruption, and I will take no part in it.
I will leave my pride and my salary long behind before I leave my humanity to die.
Location: Lambda, South Pacific Ocean
Date: January 10th, 2149
It was a long operation, and there was little to do but think. Still, thinking seemed to be more...entertaining than it was before. Charley began to understand his recent episodes a little better, now that his brain was unconscious. The prosthetics' CPU attempted to communicate with the nervous system, but received little response. In turn,
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