Shelleeana laughed and shook her head with a smirk.<span style="color: sandybrown"> "i would rather have good tasting meals then ones that are good for me but taste bad, i want to enjoy life."</span>she shook her head and reached over to pinch Nalo's lips shut.<span style="color: sandybrown"> "thats exactly what im trying not to think about thank you very much. oh i understand, your nothing but a large, insanely smart child and i plan to treat you as such."</span>she nodded a little before she leaned back in her seat, releasing Nalo.<span style="color: sandybrown">"our coffers currently hold enough money to cover our monthly expenses for roughly another year and thats barring any further expenses. its well over a hundred thousand gold but when spread over the expenses of an ever growing army, a likewise growing prisoner expense, ship repairs, Hippogyph and Nightsaber feed and repair efforts just to name some of the biggest expenses we are practically bankrupt. our current income can extend that time by roughly eight months before there arent two copper to rub together in the coffers... when we started this war we had practically no taxes because our expenses were extremely small, a small navy, the Sentinels were skilled and mostly in reserve and self sufficient, our economy had been stable for many mellenia, the people were happy and the coffers held nearly three million gold. now the people are growing unruly, they scream about the taxes we have been forced to enact, our military is mostly filled with unskilled and undisciplined morons who cant even maintain their gear and we are losing land on almost all fronts. our problems stem from the fact that the government owns nothing, all productions is private and we have to buy everything from our own people or worse, the other members of the Alliance, its a system that worked for us in peacetime but i fear we cannot recover at this point. by the time Tyrande got around to facing our economic problems there wasnt enough money left to start the projects she requested."</span>she sighed and shook her head.<span style="color: sandybrown">"your idea is.... creative, but its going to take alot more then that to get us out of this mess." </span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>