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Bill: Defence of the Economy
Details
Submitted by[?]: Fascist Party
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 2518
Description[?]:
| To ensure that the vital economic interest is in the hands of our people and not the grasping claw of International High Finance. Strikes damage the unity of society, pitting worker against worker, damaging the elderly children, the sick and the wellbeing and peace of all. We are One People - we should not allow alien elements and strange political ideologies the opportunity to ferment division amongst our ranks.Democratic Works Councils are back door Bolshevism, used by those intent on damaging our fine homeland to harm us. Allowing private possibly foreign individuals and bodies to poison our good and kindly people with lies and hatered is unacceptable. The ability to debase our culture with self centred nihilistic so-called popular music and liobertine talk radio cannot be allowed. Those companies who are presently propounding the utility of Genetically Modified crops are interested in nothing more that profit, without any care for the environment or our good and fine people. GM proponents produce GM crops because Peak Oil is here, and International High Finance is merely interested in Profit from the industrial chemicals they spew onto our fine and productive land. Peak Oil steals this profit, and they see GM as a way of continuing to bleed us dry. Either you are loyal to your citizens or a slave to International Capital. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Government approval is needed before strikers can be fired.
Current: Employers can fire workers who are deemed to have gone on strike without reasonable reasons.
Proposed: Employers are free to fire workers who go on strike.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning genetically modified (GM) crops.
Old value:: All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are allowed.
Current: All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are allowed.
Proposed: All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are banned.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Current: All radio stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which are subsidised by the government.
Proposed: All radio stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which are subsidised by the government.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The workers' right to strike.
Old value:: All workers, except certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society, have the right to strike.
Current: All workers have the right to strike but certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society have to ensure a minimal service.
Proposed: All strikes are illegal.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on Democratic Workers' Councils.
Old value:: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Current: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Proposed: Democratic Workers' Councils are not permitted to run a business.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:02:12, January 16, 2008 CET | From |  We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Defence of the Economy |
| Message | We like you! And thank you for writing bill descriptions. |
| Date | 21:41:51, January 17, 2008 CET | From | Communist Party of Hobrazia | To | Debating the Defence of the Economy |
| Message | This bill is a travesty and the workers of hobrazia will not stand for it. |
| Date | 22:29:05, January 17, 2008 CET | From | Fascist Party | To | Debating the Defence of the Economy |
| Message | The Bill is not a travesty - it is to ensure that a narrow, highly focused and damaging clique of political extremists cannot damage our great nation. Workers cannot and should not have the right to destroy the economy. Workers are merely one part of our Corporatist nation. They bare responsibility not to strike work as much as the employer has no right to abuse them. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 119 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 170 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 111 |
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