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Transcript
Panel 1:
Vulcan Aide: I'm afraid the economic report is bad, Mr. President. We're still not seeing any significant improvement in the targeted sectors.
President Ovrildash: How can that be? We're providing free services across the board for all workers!
Human Aide: Yes, sir... but we're having extreme difficulty obtaining workers for intense labor-related jobs. Especially dilithium mining.
President: That field used to be overrun with workers. There must be some mistake.
Panel 2:
Vulcan Aide: Well, sir, that was the case. Before money was banned.
As you can see from this chart... we've had steep employment increases in creative fields... poets, artists, etc. But large losses in high labor fields, such as farming and mining.
The data would suggest an imbalance in the work/reward ratio, and a tendency toward jobs that do not require tangible results.
President: Look how many people have been freed to pursue their artistic goals! Greed was the bane of hte universe. We have finally eliminated it.
This is an adjustment period. We are ushering in a new, better period of history.
Panel 3:
President: Aha! I know! It just hit me.
The solution is simple. A new directive commanding that new dilithium miners will be selected by lottery.
With required production quotas in order to receive replicator credits.
There. I've signed it. Go ahead and look over the legal language later for presentation to Congress.
Vulcan Aide: Of course, sir.
President: I should have thought of this earlier. Give me a list of all the underemployed industries and I'll write an order for each of them.
Human Aide: Mr. President... may we discuss your new poll numbers now? They're... not where we'd like them to be.
President: Not now. I have another meeting that may... address that situation.
Panel 4:
President's Secretary: Mr. President? Senator Dreyer and Admiral Benson to see you.
President: Aha. And here's that meeting now.
All of you leave... this is a private matter.
Panel 5:
Senator Dreyer: Mr. President... before we begin, I'd just like to assure you that this situation is being resolved.
We've taken emergency measures to--
Panel 6:
President: Stop covering your backside, Dreyer. I don't want to hear it.
I gave you a smiple assignment... make me look good on defense.
Instead... you've engineered the largest cluster &%$# I've ever seen.
Let's go down the list, shall we? And then maybe I'll let you simper out your pitiful excuses.
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