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Bill: Lodamun Free Trade Agreement
Details
Submitted by[?]: Justice League of Cildania
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: February 2711
Description[?]:
| Look at this treaty draft here and state your opinions: http://classic.particracy.net/viewtreaty.php?treatyid=1357 |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:45:10, February 05, 2009 CET | From |  Cildanian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Lodamun Free Trade Agreement |
| Message | Against, we believe in protectionism, however CNP will most probably abstain because in reality this means nothing.... |
| Date | 21:21:27, February 05, 2009 CET | From | ProgressiveDemocrats (ProgDem) | To | Debating the Lodamun Free Trade Agreement |
| Message | We should protect our workers from concurrence they can't resist, but we think that if an addition would be made to the agreement that will guarantee this we'll have to agree with it (yes, even us crazy socialist nutcases who only want to ruin the country.) PS. ofcourse that's the same for Lodamun workers |
| Date | 07:14:27, February 06, 2009 CET | From | Justice League of Cildania | To | Debating the Lodamun Free Trade Agreement |
| Message | Protecting workers from "concurrence" is extremely myopic and destructive. The long run benefits to our efficiency, competitiveness and economic well-being are enormous. Instead of spending our resources resisting change and keeping Cildania in relative dark ages, why not embrace the short-term creative destruction that is free trade? If you're so worried about the workers, you should be spending resources on retraining them to related fields where Cildania would hold the comparative advantage. Not only would that keep workers employed, but keep them competitive and far more able to adapt to inevitable changes in the future. I'll point out here that Cildania currently has free trade as policy, with no tariffs and minimum border controls on all neutral nations such as Lodamun. Entering this agreement only serves to open up Lodamun's side of the trade, increasing our exports and making Cildania more prosperous. Free trade and foreign competition has always been present in Cildania. These treaties simply obligate the foreign nation to reciprocate our free policies. Great for Cildania, so the more of these free trade treaties we can sign, the better. |
| Date | 09:19:41, February 06, 2009 CET | From | Cildanian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Lodamun Free Trade Agreement |
| Message | Ok, we are satisfied with JLC's explanation, although we favor protectionism, we realize that is unfortunately not changeable for some time, we will abstain. |
| Date | 19:31:35, February 12, 2009 CET | From | ProgressiveDemocrats (ProgDem) | To | Debating the Lodamun Free Trade Agreement |
| Message | we shall vote for it but not whit our whole heart |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 125 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 85 |
| Random fact: Alduria, Rildanor and Lourenne all have Canrilaise (French) cultures. |
| Random quote: "Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon so long as there is no answer to it gives claws to the weak." - George Orwell |