CC: The NS, #22 - Raise Duel Standards, Say Fencers

[GreecePwns]

Appy polly loggies for not being online this weekend, its been busy.

The next issue will be posted shortly.

[GreecePwns]

Hospitals have requested that they be allowed to pay people for donating blood and other bodily organs, such as kidneys.

"We remain critically short of blood plasma and various organs," says Conquer Club One hospital administrator Ruby Christensen. "Especially hearts. A good heart is hard to find. But if we were allowed to pay for donations, we'd get more of them and could save more lives. Plus the donor takes home a few hundred Unnamed National Currencys in compensation. Unless it's a post-mortem donation, of course. In that case we'd pay the family."

"Great idea," says social commentator Al Hanover. "Except for one thing. You know who's going to be selling their organs? Poor people! They'll be so desperate for money that they'll sell their own kidneys. Well, a kidney. This is just another way for the rich to buy themselves a better life at the expense of the poor. It must be outlawed."

[nietzsche]

No way.

This should be forbidden by the law since we are too stupid and would do it in a moment of pressure.

Edit: Even postmortem is risky, imagine your wife killing you for the money..

Blood might be OK, but not organs.

[Timminz]

What kind of health care system do we have? How is health care paid for?

What sort of religious beliefs are prominent? Would a policy requiring mandatory organ donation upon death meet much resistance?

[Sniper08]

What kind of health care system do we have? How is health care paid for?

What sort of religious beliefs are prominent? Would a policy requiring mandatory organ donation upon death meet much resistance?

click the link in the first post to see how it is going. Crime is the main problem right now. i dont think a religious advisor issue has come up yet but when it does you'll get to choose how religious the country is not what beliefs there is/isnt.

[GreecePwns]

There is also an Analysis section, where you can see the statistics for pretty much anything you can think of.

[GreecePwns]

This vote is currently a tie. I will keep it up until the end of the day.

[GreecePwns]

The poll for Cash for Colons ended 7-6 in favor of allowing hospitals to pay for donated organs. This is the next issue:

Issue 9: Retail Workers Strike!
"We are the backbone of this country, and we demand a fair wage rise!" says union leader Violet National. "I don't think a 20% increase over two years is too much to ask. Unless the government forces employers to give us our due, we'll shut this whole industry down! Let's see how well Conquer Club's economy manages without any Retail, huh?"

"We pay our employees very generous wages," says employer representative Clint Lee. "Especially when you consider that without us, they'd be OUT ON THE STREET. Hear that, you scumbags? OUT ON THE STREET! Anyway, my point is, if you cave in, you make our entire industry uncompetitive. You can't do that in the global marketplace. It'll hurt the whole country. The best solution, economically speaking, would be to relax industrial laws and allow us to fire troublemakers on the spot."

[BigBallinStalin]

If you want people to pay higher prices for most of their goods, then vote option 1.

[Neoteny]

:insert oversimplified economic ideology here:

[Timminz]

I preferred having three options. Neither of these ones are acceptable.

[Baron Von PWN]

The people deserve a fair wage. High prices will be avoided by legislated price ceilings. Problem solved!

[BigBallinStalin]

[GreecePwns]

The poll ended with a narrow majority, 5-4 against the workers' strike.

[GreecePwns]

11 hours ago: Conquer Club was reclassified from "New York Times Democracy" to "Corporate Bordello".
11 hours ago: Following new legislation in Conquer Club, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys.