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Proposed Change to Anti-Communism Policy Reaches Corporate Senate
"This is a tremendous step forward in correcting an unnecessarily aggressive aspect of our foreign policy, in addition to potentially breaking the stranglehold some Private Military Companies hold on the Corporate Senate." Scott said during a press release earlier this morning.
Since being passed in 1988, the Corporatocracy's Anti-Communism policy proclaimed the intention to intervene militarily wherever Communist revolts took place in the vicinity of Elcric Kcalb. Scott attributes the legislation's passing to "widespread paranoia directed against Communism at the time, in addition to the Corporate Senate's desire to make its Anti-Communism policy abundantly clear, and intimidating."
"Though the fact that Private Military Companies, such as Goliath and Tantamount, were at the height of their influence at the time, and were in the position to gain a lot from such an aggressive policy, definitely played another factor," Scott was quick to add.
H.A. Haarstad's proposed revision involves what could be described as a "preemptive strike in the form of timely investments." Instead of fighting Communist revolutionaries as they appear, the new policy will instead focus on preventing such revolutions before they can happen. The document asserts that Communist revolutions most commonly take place in countries suffering economically, where citizens would feel tempted by the promise of economic "equality" and putting the means of production in the hands of the masses. The solution, then, would be to invest in and partner with suffering countries to remedy their failing economies, thus eliminating any desire for such a revolution.
"With this policy, we will be able to expand Kcalbite influence, spread economic prosperity, and simultaneously enrich our own country. It will benefit us much more than our current policy, which calls for little more than turning nations suffering Communist uprisings into occupational zones."