The Daily Cuban - interview with President Schmidt (RP)

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in an exclusive for our newspaper - The Daily Cuban - our reporter Mr.Castro was able to meet the president of San Andreas President.Schmidt  @Weppo  for a short interview to address some recent questions and concerns by both Cuban residences and San Andreas nationals alike.

Q: Thank you for agreeing to meet us Mr.President despite your tight schedule. first of all, how do you see the performance of the government so far under your term, would you say it meets the expectations of the citizens of San Andreas?
A: our government is performing exceptionally well since the introduction of the Cuban tax bill, crime rates have been going down and citizens have never been more secure, we are getting richer and richer and our banks aren't being robbed nearly as much as before.

Q: as a Cuban national myself, and with the rising tensions between the Cuban Liberation Organization and the Desert Eagles, there has been reports of targeting and discrimination towards Cuban residences in here, what's your comment about the matter?
A: our great country has many Cubans with good jobs and opportunities, we're working hard to keep illegal ones out but we don't act based on any discrimination.

Q: so is your government open to merge Cuban immigrants as part of the San Andreas community or does it prefer decreasing the number of said immigrants?
A: We welcome all immigrants as long as they come legally, we welcome everyone to merge in our great country as long as they come legally. unfortunate the Cuban Liberation Organization has caused an increase in illegal ones, those have to stop.

Q: there has been rumors about a recent rise of the activities of the Cuban Liberation Organization targeting recruiting more members, how is the government preparing to face that and should we expect escalations?
A: if DE has to act, they will. CLO are terrorists, as long as they don't act according to our laws they will meet justice.

Q: would you say the cooperation between DE and other law enforcement organizations has been optimal? specially in light of past tensions between DE and other law enforcement groups, how has that tension affect the operations and how solving it has gone so far?
A: yes there was an internal indifference in terms of jurisdiction between different law enforcement organizations, but those have been resolved now. each organization will do their part of making San Andreas safe.


Q: moving on to a different topic, the recent reports of the San Andreas federal bank states that our reserve has passed 53.5 billion dollars, is there any upcoming changes in the tax system planned?
A: we have no plan on changing our taxes as long as we are profiting as a whole, i think our citizens will agree that being rich isn't that bad.

Q: but with the big demands on both civilian and military needs, how do you think the government can balance the situation? there are many places that needs infrastructure work and other places need urgent development (like groove street area in Los Santos), while in the same time meet the demands of DE in the ensuing wars with CLO?   
A: our military efforts are funded by the introduction of the Cuban Oil tax bill, but yes, there are great many places which needs our help but unfortunately we can not be everywhere at the same time. groove street for example is a work in progress. meanwhile we are doing our best to keep the non-working illegals out of San Andreas.

Q: There has been complains from some counties regarding the "lack of effort" from their mayors in the absence of senators, would you encourage a sooner elections?
A: well, it's true. you haven't seen our senators correct mayors for a while. we have been battling Cuban corruption and unfortunately this meant that half of our senate was fired, we are running short on senators and we're working overtime in the office.


Q: so would you agree that this is the perfect time for "new blood" or should that be later?
A: I've been trying to get additional team for a year, but it's not going as i intended. its out of my hands. it does mean that i have a more influential role in the senate to help them accomplish their goals.

Q: for the healthcare system, while progress has was noticeable in major cities there are still complains in far away counties, how long do you expect before the system can cover San Andreas as a whole and how do you see the efforts of organizations like San Andreas Medics in the matter?
A: considering the healthcare system is a private one, i will advice you to take it up with the companies, we don't make decisions for where and how they are working.



on that note, President.Schmidt had to end the interview to attend to more important business. we would like to thank him again for his time and hope we can meet him again for a more detailed and in depth interview.

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