In this two-part Entry, we will be exploring the Federalist American Union’s renditions of the SSE, VCS Economy, Reciprocal-Reserve Banking System and National Intranet. Serious applications of the Work-Standard will yield comparable results, albeit there can be possibilities where the nation applying it would have distinct command structures. These variances can be deduced as being byproducts of Production for Dasein, where it is feasible for different nations to express themselves in their own unique way. How they express themselves politically, economically and socially can be discerned from the manner in which they construct those five key institutional actors that we had discussed earlier in the SMP Compendium. In essence, everything introduced in the preceding Entry will be expanded upon in more detail here.

The purpose of Part I is to flesh out the specifications of the American SSE and VCS Economy, as these two institutional actors will be cooperating with each other more than in other nations under the Work-Standard. Here, the Federal Government leads the Union and entrusts the State and Municipal Governments to ensure their segment of the Union maintains comparable customs and norms befitting of the American Essence. The economic activities of the American SSE and VCS Economy will be impacted by the “Commerce Clause” of the Constitution, which affects the extent to which the Federal Government may intervene in the affairs of any of the States. Although the LERE Process is an area where the Federal Government must assert “Interstate Commerce” with regard to Digital Enterprises, the LER Process remains split between the Federal, State and Municipal Governments. That will in turn influence the direction in which Economic Organization and Economic Governance assume their proper forms in the FAU.  

Unified Federalist Student Economy

The American Unified Federalist Student Economy (UFSE) has enough autonomy to act as a mirror to the administrative command structure of the Federal and State governments. The Student Government operates in tandem with American Federalism, including the delineation between Federal, State and Municipal Governments. Its Student President and Student Vice President answer directly to the Secretary of Education, preside over the Student Congress and lead the Student Councils in charge of the UFSE’s Student Tournament. The conduct of Council Democracy and Mission-Type Economic Planning (MTEP) are applied through hands-on practice at the secondary and tertiary educational levels, ensuring that the Student Body are familiar with the Federalist American Union and providing them with some preconceived notion on what their Vocations should be.

The Student Congress and the Student Councils at the State and Municipal levels are designed after the Council Democracy that exists in the Federal, State and Municipal Governments. The youth wings of the Greater American Federalist Party (GAFP) and its United Front are allowed to run for office in the UFSE. The Student Body votes for their Student Delegates and Student Councilors to the Councils on fixed terms and with a special “Generational Term Limit.” Applicable to all positions that can be voted for by the Student Body, the Generational Term Limit is designed to not only ensure that the next generation has their chance to govern the UFSE, but also inform the current generation that they must be training for future governance of the Federal, State and Municipal Government.

Any form of economic planning will only be as effective as the people involved in the production process. Mission-Type Economic Planning (MTEP) demands a national educational system capable of instilling the Prussian arts of Auftragstaktik (“Mission-Type Command”) and Fingerspitzengefühl (“Instinctive Situational Awareness”), ensuring that every high school and university student is capable of unlocking latent potential and can intuit the presences of any opportunities that comes their way. The 1960s Counterculture has demonstrated this reality to the Greater American Federalist Party because American Council Democracy begins with the students from every high school and every university throughout the entire Federalist American Union.

But unlike the political youth wings of other Socialist countries, including the Soviet Union, German Reich, People’s Republic of China and Yugoslavia, our SSE must account for the political process since all high schoolers and university students are entitled to political and economic participation as US citizens. The UFSE provides America its chance to implement a new kind of SSE that will not only gain the respect of every SSE on Earth, but it will set the stage for youths of the whole world to learn how to govern themselves properly as the citizens of their own nations in a Socialist world order. Each and every student in the Federalist American Union shall learn and train for the necessary character-building and leadership training required for MTEP, regardless of which Profession they end up choosing as their Vocation.

The UFSE must strive to ensure that America’s youth will become upstanding, law-abiding adults. Due to the UFSE’s contributions of Arbeit and Geld to the Federal Life-Energy Reserve, every student will receive free education and free healthcare, a personal allowance and national uniform, opportunities to afford room and board away from their parental household, classes and electives where they will learn hands-on practical training, ethics, religious and political education as well as the usual curricula. Congress shall allocate Geld toward the Department of Education for the construction of facilities, barracks and dormitories, and enlistment of personnel determined to teach and train the next generation. Students will also receive a special metal badge and alterations to their UFSE uniform by participating in a “Extracurricular Guild Occupations (EGOs)” devoted to specific afterschool fields. Not everyone wears the exact same uniform; some are more distinguishable by our medals, ribbons, and which EGO is defining their afterschool life.

These EGOs are designed to fulfill the functions of a Profession in the VCS Economy insofar as the Students involved in the EGOs are training for specific Professions as part of their Vocations. All EGOs share the same Social Ranking System and will be applicable to each Student as they graduate from either the secondary or tertiary educational levels. To join an EGO is to be able to participate in the Student Tournament of the UFSE and its Student Enterprises. The Student Government maintains various Student Enterprises as part of its own contributions of Arbeit and Geld as well as to provide hands-on training in addition to the classroom instruction.

The Federal, State and Municipal Governments will be required by law to ensure that a set number of Student Enterprises are operating in the UFSE’s Student Tournament every fiscal year. Social, Municipal and State Enterprises will be encouraged to transfer to the Student Tournament. Student Enterprises will be allowed to transfer to the Tournament of the American VCS Economy.    

Unified Federal-State VCS Economy

The VCS Economy of the Federalist American Union is going to be reflect the principles, values and beliefs that are most befitting of American Federalism. Such considerations will ultimately affect the formation of the Tournament and the Social Ranking System with regard to the Economic Organization of the various Enterprises. The Social Ranking System is applicable to all States, requiring a uniform standard that each State maintains and is applicable to every other State. For instance, if someone has a certain Social Rank within their home State, then that Social Rank will also be recognized by the other States.

The significance of the Social Rank will also be extended to the Paygrades received by every Household. Since Congress is responsible for handling the finances of the Federalist American Union, it should also be responsible for how much of the Federal Budget should go to the Union and the States. Each Social Rank is tied to an Income Bracket, which determines how much Geld a given Vocation will be expected to receive each week. Higher Social Ranks correspond to larger Paygrades, which will come as the result of someone staying devoted to their Vocation and perfecting its Quality of Arbeit over the course of an entire lifetime. 

This in turn implies that the Vocational Civil Service concept will be delineated along Federal and State lines. Everyone who works in the Federal Government started out working for their State Government, eventually making a name for themselves. The arrangement is similar to the idea of having the Representatives and Senators be drawn from the States and supported by the American people. It is also an ideal that John Jay had even elaborated in one of his Federalist Papers. Those who are called to work in the Federal Government have a Vocation that compels them to serve the entire Union and not just their own State. Those whose ambitions are less lofty and ambitious should be more concerned about the affairs of their own State.  

Similar to the Student Tournament in the UFSE, the Tournament of the American VCS Economy is regulated and maintained by the Congress of Councils. America’s Tournament is the means by which goods and services as well as Equipmentalities and Actual Geld are transferred between States, Enterprises, Vocations and Households. The typology of Enterprises in the Federalist American Union consists of Federal Enterprises, State Enterprises, Social Enterprises, Student Enterprises, Digital Enterprises, and Foreign Enterprises. Interstate Commerce begins among the Federal, Digital, Student, and Foreign Enterprises, ending with the affairs of the Social, Municipal and State Enterprises.

Rather than the simplified model of SAEs, SOEs, NSEs, POEs and PDEs operating as members of Industrial Concerns, Consortiums, Subsidiaries and Guilds, it is also possible to envisage the FAU having as many as twelve Enterprises. There would be three Enterprises at the Federal level, four at the State level, and five at the Municipal level. These twelve Enterprises are capable of forming Industrial Concerns, Consortiums, Subsidiaries and Guilds. The best way to distinguish these Enterprises is to categorize them into three tiers.

At the Municipal level, the first tier consists of two Social Enterprises and three Municipal Enterprises. Personnel-Directed Enterprises (PDEs) are created by a self-employed Vocational Civil Servant or by a vocational administrator with several Civil Servants within their local municipality. Everyone from here to the end of the second tier are all considered members of their State Civil Service. Personnel-Owned Enterprises (POEs) are created from a PDE deciding to start either a family-owned enterprise such as a small family farm and ranch or in this case more than one small business within or near the vicinity of their local city.

Municipal-Personnel Enterprises (MPEs) are created from a POE deciding to create larger family-owned Small Businesses or several Workshops and Cooperatives across or throughout their local city. Municipal-Owned Enterprises (MOEs) are created from a MPE deciding to create two family-owned enterprises or multiple small businesses in a local city and its vicinity. Municipal-Administrated Enterprises (MAEs) are created from an MOE deciding to create three family-owned enterprises or multiple small businesses encompassing the local city and its entire surrounding county. Further expansion will promote any MAE to a Social Rank where they will be brought under their State Government’s oversight as a “National-Socialized Enterprise (NSE).” 

The second tier, operating at the State level, contains one Social Enterprise and three State Enterprises. National-Socialized Enterprises (NSEs) are created from MAEs branching out of their local city and county and immediately entering another city or county within their own State. This designation is specifically chosen to the Compact Clause of the Constitution because all Economic Organizations with a Rank of NSE or higher can now establish a presence in another State. It is because they are now able to accept NSFIs (National-Socialized Financial Instruments) from the State Governments at their Kontore. 

State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) are created from NSEs establishing their presence across at least three cities and seven counties in either their State or two States in the Union. Further expansion into the State capital promotes any SOE to the Rank of SAE (State-Administrated Enterprise). State-Administrated Enterprises (SAEs)are created from SOEs that have been able to establish their presence across five cities and ten counties in either their State or else two States within Union, in addition to their own State’s capital. Further expansion by an SAE into ten cities, twenty counties, and anywhere between two and four State capitals will promote any SAE to the Rank of ISE (Inter-State Enterprise).       

Inter-State Enterprises (ISEs)are created from SAEs that have a presence in at least ten cities, twenty counties, and anywhere between two and four State capitals in the Union.Further expansion of an ISE into twice as many cities, counties, State capitals, and/or an additional presence in Washington DC will promote any ISE to the Command and Obedience of the Federal government as an FSE (Federal-State Enterprise).

The third tier only has three Federal Enterprises. Federal-State Enterprises (FSEs) are created from ISEs that achieved the minimal presence of ten cities, twenty counties and over four State capitals and/or a presence in Washington DC. They are now able to accept FSFIs (Federal-State Financial Instruments) from the Federal Government under the US Department of Treasury and are allowed to join the Federal Civil Service under the US Department of Labor. 

Federal-Owned Enterprise (FOEs) are created from ISEs that achieved the minimal presence of hundred cities, two hundred counties, at least twenty State capitals, and Washington DC. Further expansion will continue until they have a presence in all US cities and counties, State counties, and Washington DC itself, at which point any FOE shall receive the Social Rank of FAE (Federal-Administrated Enterprises).

Federal-Administrated Enterprise (FAEs) are created from FOEs and have achieved the ability to assert an economic presence in the entire United States of America and are also considered eligible for authorization by the US Department of State to conduct Economic Foreignization abroad under the terms of a Real Trade Agreement (RTA) signed by the US. Any International Treaties on Economic Foreignization ratified by the US as a member-state of the World State Organization (WSO) shall be adhered to and enforced by all FAEs operating abroad.

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