Eternity RPC Board
10-23-2016, 03:16 PM
Alvan 3rd, 1580, 7 PM (Vien Time)
Vien, Volta
Christel Schäfer: Good evening. We are live with the Direct Wire with the Chancellor. I am one of your hosts, Christel Schäfer, reporter for Volta One and regular contributor to Die Volta-Bericht. I am joined by Iztli Olin, reporter for Vien TV.
Iztli Olin: This is being broadcast live on Volta Channel One, you can also watch the broadcast live through the internet on the VTV website, as well as on Ogo Volta, and many other networks. You can also listen live on Voltan People's Radio.
Christel Schäfer: Our collegues Hannes Straub, Engel Protz, Katja Haas, and Berta Hofmann will be helping us in the studio. Isabell Beringer and Gerulf Scheinberg will be helping us in the call center.
Iztli Olin: Our guests at the studio include people from all walks of life. With us we have farmers, students, teachers, peasants, intellectuals, law enforcement officers, active military personnel, veterans, doctors, and many more.
Christel Schäfer: Today we have questions from all over Volta regarding a variety of issues. We have questions covering everything from quality of life, housing quality, utilities, prices of commodities, foreign relations, and many others. We will be asking questions about what is on the minds of all Voltans.
Iztli Olin: Answering these questions will be the star of todays show, the Chancellor of the Socialist Federal Republic of Volta, please welcome, Ernst Krenz.
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*Ernst Krenz enters and takes a seat*
Ernst Krenz: Good evening comrades.
Christel Schäfer: Good evening.
Iztli Olin: Good evening. Welcome to the studio, behind us you can see one of many call centers that we have set up that collects the questions that people are senting you for this Direct Wire. These call centers were established by VNF because we anticipated that a single call center would not be able to cope with the amount of calls that we would get.
There are many calls coming in every second, via telephone, SMS, MMS, and even new video calls. If you look around you will see many of our comrades busy taking the incoming calls.
Ernst Krenz: They are doing an excellent job.
Christel Schäfer: Let me show you how it works. This operator is taking a call right now, it is coming from Lövavald. It appears to be regarding infrastructure.
Ernst Krenz: We should get straight to the heart of things, let's hear it.
Question: Hello Chancellor, my name is Lorenz, I live in Lövavald. I am here in front of a major road on the outskirts of the city, and look at this! It's outrageous. There are cracks everywhere, potholes too. It's ridiculous. The local authorities keep saying that it will be repaired, but only the roads in the inner city have been repaired. They say that the outskirts will be repaired as well, but they've been saying that for 3 years now and nothing's happened.
Ernst Krenz: This is in the outskirts of the city, correct?
Response: Yes, it is. The roads in the center of the city have all been repaired.
Ernst Krenz: And you've been waiting three years for the repairs to come to the outskirts?
Response: Yes.
Ernst Krenz: What is your name?
Response: Lorenz.
Ernst Krenz: Lorenz, this is a problem that is around all over Volta, not just Lövavald. I know just from looking at some of what people say on social media that there are a lot of complaints about the roads, especially from less populated areas of the country. Not exclusively from less populated areas of the countries, some from more highly populated areas as well, but there were a great deal more from less populated areas of the country.
This isn't some fluke, in spite of what some members of the party may claim. It is a very real problem that people in Volta have to deal with every day of their lives.
The situation got like this because the central government gives the task of building and maintaining infrastructure largely to local authorities, something that worked well in the past. But now, some local authorities have been slacking off on their jobs, neglecting some functions that they consider non-essential such as infrastructure maintanence. Well, it might not be essential to them, but it certainly is essential to a lot of people and for this reason I believe that this is an issue that the government needs to address.
Once all of my planned reforms, the Neues System, has been fully implemented, the central government should go on a massive infrastructure project so that we can not only repair the infrastructure of Volta, but also bring it up to and maybe even exceed the standards in place in many other countries. The government also needs to implement some measure to encourage local governments to properly maintain the infrastructure of their regions, so that this doesn't become an issue again in the future.
I understand that some people may have concerns regarding how much this will cost, but infrastructure doesn't just effect the average person traveling. Infrastructure that's too poor in quality can negatively impact economic development. The net positive effect of getting our infrastructure on par with that of other countries will be massive. So, spending a few billion on repairing and upgrading infrastructure shouldn't really be a problem.
However, I have to caution against expecting anything to happen instantly. This is not an issue that's going to go away with the blink of an eye, and it will not be easy or quick to fix. I have to ask you to be patient with the government, we promise we will address this. Lorenz, I also encourage you to monitor your local government and record what they are and aren't doing about the issue, we need to pressure them into actually doing their job and repairing the infrastructure and there is no better way to do that than to hold the authorities accountable.
Christel Schäfer: We may return to this subject later on, that was a good start. Now let's look at some other questions. We are also taking questions from abroad as well as domestically, let's turn to one of the questions from a foreign country right now.
OOC: If you want to post a question, please be sure to include the name of who is asking the question as well as what the question is as well as what nation they are from. Oh, and this TV thing is entirely in the Voltan language, so it would have to be from someone where it would make sense that they speak Voltan.
Vien, Volta
Christel Schäfer: Good evening. We are live with the Direct Wire with the Chancellor. I am one of your hosts, Christel Schäfer, reporter for Volta One and regular contributor to Die Volta-Bericht. I am joined by Iztli Olin, reporter for Vien TV.
Iztli Olin: This is being broadcast live on Volta Channel One, you can also watch the broadcast live through the internet on the VTV website, as well as on Ogo Volta, and many other networks. You can also listen live on Voltan People's Radio.
Christel Schäfer: Our collegues Hannes Straub, Engel Protz, Katja Haas, and Berta Hofmann will be helping us in the studio. Isabell Beringer and Gerulf Scheinberg will be helping us in the call center.
Iztli Olin: Our guests at the studio include people from all walks of life. With us we have farmers, students, teachers, peasants, intellectuals, law enforcement officers, active military personnel, veterans, doctors, and many more.
Christel Schäfer: Today we have questions from all over Volta regarding a variety of issues. We have questions covering everything from quality of life, housing quality, utilities, prices of commodities, foreign relations, and many others. We will be asking questions about what is on the minds of all Voltans.
Iztli Olin: Answering these questions will be the star of todays show, the Chancellor of the Socialist Federal Republic of Volta, please welcome, Ernst Krenz.
*Ernst Krenz enters and takes a seat*
Ernst Krenz: Good evening comrades.
Christel Schäfer: Good evening.
Iztli Olin: Good evening. Welcome to the studio, behind us you can see one of many call centers that we have set up that collects the questions that people are senting you for this Direct Wire. These call centers were established by VNF because we anticipated that a single call center would not be able to cope with the amount of calls that we would get.
There are many calls coming in every second, via telephone, SMS, MMS, and even new video calls. If you look around you will see many of our comrades busy taking the incoming calls.
Ernst Krenz: They are doing an excellent job.
Christel Schäfer: Let me show you how it works. This operator is taking a call right now, it is coming from Lövavald. It appears to be regarding infrastructure.
Ernst Krenz: We should get straight to the heart of things, let's hear it.
Question: Hello Chancellor, my name is Lorenz, I live in Lövavald. I am here in front of a major road on the outskirts of the city, and look at this! It's outrageous. There are cracks everywhere, potholes too. It's ridiculous. The local authorities keep saying that it will be repaired, but only the roads in the inner city have been repaired. They say that the outskirts will be repaired as well, but they've been saying that for 3 years now and nothing's happened.
Ernst Krenz: This is in the outskirts of the city, correct?
Response: Yes, it is. The roads in the center of the city have all been repaired.
Ernst Krenz: And you've been waiting three years for the repairs to come to the outskirts?
Response: Yes.
Ernst Krenz: What is your name?
Response: Lorenz.
Ernst Krenz: Lorenz, this is a problem that is around all over Volta, not just Lövavald. I know just from looking at some of what people say on social media that there are a lot of complaints about the roads, especially from less populated areas of the country. Not exclusively from less populated areas of the countries, some from more highly populated areas as well, but there were a great deal more from less populated areas of the country.
This isn't some fluke, in spite of what some members of the party may claim. It is a very real problem that people in Volta have to deal with every day of their lives.
The situation got like this because the central government gives the task of building and maintaining infrastructure largely to local authorities, something that worked well in the past. But now, some local authorities have been slacking off on their jobs, neglecting some functions that they consider non-essential such as infrastructure maintanence. Well, it might not be essential to them, but it certainly is essential to a lot of people and for this reason I believe that this is an issue that the government needs to address.
Once all of my planned reforms, the Neues System, has been fully implemented, the central government should go on a massive infrastructure project so that we can not only repair the infrastructure of Volta, but also bring it up to and maybe even exceed the standards in place in many other countries. The government also needs to implement some measure to encourage local governments to properly maintain the infrastructure of their regions, so that this doesn't become an issue again in the future.
I understand that some people may have concerns regarding how much this will cost, but infrastructure doesn't just effect the average person traveling. Infrastructure that's too poor in quality can negatively impact economic development. The net positive effect of getting our infrastructure on par with that of other countries will be massive. So, spending a few billion on repairing and upgrading infrastructure shouldn't really be a problem.
However, I have to caution against expecting anything to happen instantly. This is not an issue that's going to go away with the blink of an eye, and it will not be easy or quick to fix. I have to ask you to be patient with the government, we promise we will address this. Lorenz, I also encourage you to monitor your local government and record what they are and aren't doing about the issue, we need to pressure them into actually doing their job and repairing the infrastructure and there is no better way to do that than to hold the authorities accountable.
Christel Schäfer: We may return to this subject later on, that was a good start. Now let's look at some other questions. We are also taking questions from abroad as well as domestically, let's turn to one of the questions from a foreign country right now.
OOC: If you want to post a question, please be sure to include the name of who is asking the question as well as what the question is as well as what nation they are from. Oh, and this TV thing is entirely in the Voltan language, so it would have to be from someone where it would make sense that they speak Voltan.