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Bill: S.T.E.A.M. Directive #002
Details
Submitted by[?]: Space, Technology, Eugenics And Monarchy
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: May 2459
Description[?]:
| The future will come when we force it to. The effort begins now. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards space exploration.
Old value:: Space exploration and use shall be totally unregulated.
Current: Space exploration and use shall be totally unregulated.
Proposed: The government shall operate a space agency that contracts with and oversees private space-exploration companies.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:12:47, September 21, 2007 CET | From |  Marxist-Leninist Happiness Front | To | Debating the S.T.E.A.M. Directive #002 |
| Message | Let's be the first nation to bring communism to Mars! |
| Date | 03:13:42, September 21, 2007 CET | From | Action | To | Debating the S.T.E.A.M. Directive #002 |
| Message | Would your cause not be better served by a Corporation or private Enterprise than a political Party. currently they hold more power in this nation than do the Parties, and there is nothing so far that you want the government to do that Finance cannot do alone. -Haakon |
| Date | 08:53:36, September 21, 2007 CET | From | War is Peace Party | To | Debating the S.T.E.A.M. Directive #002 |
| Message | Mankind's future lies in space, this can not lie in doubt. |
| Date | 15:23:30, September 21, 2007 CET | From | Action | To | Debating the S.T.E.A.M. Directive #002 |
| Message | But how is that 'future' better served by the State and the game of Parties than under a private organisation? |
| Date | 22:23:53, September 21, 2007 CET | From | Space, Technology, Eugenics And Monarchy | To | Debating the S.T.E.A.M. Directive #002 |
| Message | Empirical data shows that the profit motive is the most efficient motivator of industrial accomplishment. The Stellar Expansion Authority will provide the goals. Private companies will compete with each other to meet the goals. Disbursements of government funding will be in proportion to the relative progress of the competing private entities. Relative progress will be judged by the Authority. In this way the State will direct the profit motive to the benefit of the future. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 75 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 129 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 160 |
| Random fact: Submitting a bill without any proposals in it will not attract or detract voters. It will not raise your visibility or change your political position. |
| Random quote: "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." - John Muir |