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Bill: Helping Hands Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Revolutionary People's Front
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: March 2504
Description[?]:
| To provide a more internationalist-supportive outlook. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards giving aid to foreign countries.
Old value:: The government supplies "tied" aid to poorer nations in return for trading rights.
Current: The government gives high levels of aid to countries in need.
Proposed: The government gives high levels of aid to countries in need.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The national refugee policy.
Old value:: Only refugees that are victims of extreme circumstances are welcome; they are given integration-aid.
Current: All refugees are welcome, regardless of their reason, and given aid in integrating them into the country.
Proposed: All refugees are welcome, regardless of their reason, and given aid in integrating them into the country.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Travel by foreigners to the nation.
Old value:: The nation imposes strict border control on visitors, with intensive security checks, to maintain law and order.
Current: The nation imposes minimal border controls on visitors, with cursory security checks, to confirm visitor identities.
Proposed: The nation imposes minimal border controls on visitors, with cursory security checks, to confirm visitor identities.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:12:47, December 18, 2007 CET | From | Saiserist League | To | Debating the Helping Hands Act |
| Message | "The Revolutionary People's Front has basically summed up our entire foreign policy point for point in one bill. They are true comrades in the people's struggle, and this has our wholehearted endorsement. We do not have one single issue with this bill." -Daniel Vladimirovich Feterokov, Chairman of the Revolutionary Socialist Party |
| Date | 02:03:00, December 20, 2007 CET | From | Order Of The Illuminati | To | Debating the Helping Hands Act |
| Message | "We will support this act if there are some amendments made. We'd like to see: Article 1: dropped. Article 2: All refugees are welcome but no financial aid is given to them. Article 3: The nation imposes no border controls on visitors. We agree in principle with the spirit of internationalism, and we wish to take it further. However, we feel that it is not necessarily of benefit to our country to aid foreign nations simply on the basis of their need." - Archangel Id-Be, Foreign Affairs critic - |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 138 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 218 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 45 |
| Random fact: In cases where a party has no seat, the default presumption should be that the party is able to contribute to debates in the legislature due to one of its members winning a seat at a by-election. However, players may collectively improvise arrangements of their own to provide a satisfying explanation for how parties with no seats in the legislature can speak and vote there. |
| Random quote: "Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both." - Thomas Jefferson |